{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":1726,"auction_id":3,"set_id":4,"lot_number":"38","artist":"Eduardo Castrillo (1942 - 2016)","title":"Linkage Form","starting_price":160000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2013","medium":"brass","size":"50\" x 31\" x 5\" (127 cm x 79 cm x 13 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist\nconfirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"In an interview with Cid Reyes in 1989 and published in his landmark publication Conversations on Philippine Art, the eminent metal sculptor Eduardo Castrillo said: “I’ve worked with wood, but not that much. One of my sculptures—they say it’s one of my best ones—is something I did for the Don Bosco Chapel in Makati. It’s made of bronze and wood. It’s a religious piece, an impressionist Christ.”
“I think I can work on any given medium—to a point where I’ve been thinking of more mediums that I can invent,” remarks Castrillo in the same interview.
And indeed, some of Castrillo’s best works that encapsulate his artistic totality and versatility are those that combine the magnificence of metal and the delicateness of wood. A fitting example is the work at hand titled Linkage Form. In this piece, pieces of wood seemingly jut out from the brass forms. Castrillo effortlessly weaves wood into brass, exhibiting a compelling optical illusion that exudes visual resonance and delicate fluidity. When viewed at a distance, the piece manifests itself as a harmonious balance between two contrasting forces, where any form of tension is absent and an unruffled flow from wood to brass and vice versa is discerned. (A.M.)","lot_group":"SCULPTURE","lot_details_html":"
Eduardo Castrillo (1942 - 2016) Linkage Form signed and dated 2013 brass 50\" x 31\" x 5\" (127 cm x 79 cm x 13 cm)