{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":22378,"auction_id":25,"set_id":44,"lot_number":"116","artist":"Manuel Ocampo (b. 1965) ","title":"Self-Portrait (You better watch out what you are saying in \nthis society People are quick to crucify you) ","starting_price":1400000,"signed_dated":"ca 1985 ","medium":"oil on canvas, plastic, denim, paper on wood and latex paint ","size":"50 1/4” x 83” (127 cm x 211 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":"Manuel Ocampo: Early Works (1985 - 1994), Archivo 1984 Gallery, Legazpi\nVillage, Makati City, February 13 - April 20, 2017","literature":"Ocampo, Manuel, et al. Manuel Ocampo: Heridas de la Lengua: Selected Works. \nSmart Art Press. Santa Monica, CA. 1997. p. 3. \nArmstrong, Elizabeth, et al. Double Trouble: The Tom Patchett Collection. Smart \nArt Press. Santa Monica, CA. 1998. p. 188. \nZinampan D. “The Devil You Know.” Art Asia Pacific. Issue 103. May-June \n2017. Sydney, AU. pp. 102-103.","write_up":"As one of the most unique and inventive\nvoices in Philippine art today, visual\nauteur Manuel Ocampo has become the\nposter child of Philippine art on the international\nstage. Since the beginning of the 90s, Ocampo\nhas regularly exhibited his works internationally;\nspecifically in Spain, France, Germany, Mexico,\nand the United States. Beyond that, he has also\nbeen known to feature in international fairs in\nBasel, Miami, and Berlin, among others. Ocampo’s\nart features a myriad of tantalizing allegory and\nsymbolism that seek to subvert and engage. His\ncanvases are often populated with irreverent and\nkitschy images, effectively grounding them to\na much more understandable and direct visual\nexperience.
\nIn February 2017, a showcase of Ocampo’s earliest works was exhibited at the Archivo\n1984 Gallery in Makati, providing the general public with the occasion to juxtapose his\ncontemporary pieces from his works during his initial venture into art when his creations\nwere dominated by a menacing atmosphere. This piece is the earliest existing work\nby Ocampo in the market. According to the artist, he made this three months after\narriving in Los Angeles. Evocative of the style of American painter Robert Rauschenberg’s\ncombination of collaged found objects, Ocampo presents the viewer with an assemblage\nof images and iconography all done in his distinctly irreverent style. The work is sectioned\ninto four general parts, with three smaller sections placed on the right which seemingly\ncomplements the central image that takes up a sizable portion of the piece’s right side.\nThe surface of the canvas depicts a decapitated man, several buildings, a church, and a\nsilhouette, with a jar, a denim jacket, and a rag complementing the whole composition.\nThe images themselves adhere to Ocampo’s distinctly eccentric aesthetic that combines\nelements of both pop and naive art—from a crudely drawn silhouette of what appears\nto be a church to a sketch of a headless body with its groin area covered by an oddly\nmundane pitcher. The artist presents us with a chaotic yet apt reflection of the human\ncondition in a postmodern society. Although characterized as an eccentric piece in\n\nhis oeuvre, You Better Watch Out displays Ocampo’s initial experimentation and non-\nconformity to orthodox art standards.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Manuel Ocampo (b. 1965) Self-Portrait (You better watch out what you are saying in this society People are quick to crucify you) ca 1985 oil on canvas, plastic, denim, paper on wood and latex paint 50 1/4” x 83” (127 cm x 211 cm)