{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":22260,"auction_id":24,"set_id":43,"lot_number":"169","artist":"Lao Lianben (b. 1948)","title":"Tryst","starting_price":1000000,"signed_dated":"signed (lower right and verso) and dated 1970 (verso)","medium":"oil and mixed media on canvas","size":"36\" x 50\" (91 cm x 127 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, USA","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The work of art as a paradoxical monument which does not commemorate a past, but rather, preserves itself in the absence of man was presented on Lao Lianben’s Tryst, a representation of multiplicities. It is an overview of the artist’s creativity wherein the key to understanding this paradox lies in the further determination of the monument as a “being of sensations” - a ‘compound’ of ‘precepts’ and ‘affects’, meaning, a composition of invisible forces that populate the world, affects us and make us become, hence art would provoke an encounter with inhuman conditions of life which in daily, pragmatic life are often not given a chance - an idea, that Lao perhaps agreed to, knowing his works are often associated with the spirit and the aesthetics of Zen.
\nIn this masterpiece, Lao, in his event of making a homage to Arturo Luz, took up the notion of process and artmaking as an event to be understood neither as a singular moment of forces coming together, nor as the “end” of a productive process that is then superseded by another event. Rather, he underwent a process that can be implied as the process of process that includes not only emerging and quantifiable forms, but also the intellectual, emotional, and tangible experience of process which is not necessarily sequential - an event of movement through relationships between all things and people as they come into contact; grounded in the concept of “becoming.”","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Lao Lianben (b. 1948) Tryst signed (lower right and verso) and dated 1970 (verso) oil and mixed media on canvas 36\" x 50\" (91 cm x 127 cm)