{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":1831,"auction_id":4,"set_id":5,"lot_number":"106","artist":"Marc Aran Reyes (b. 1996)","title":"Displacement I","starting_price":2400000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2009 (lower right)<br />","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"75\" x 48\" (191 cm x 122 cm)","property":null,"coa":"León Gallery wishes to thank the artist for confirming the  authenticity of this lot","provenance":null,"exhibited":"Art Central Hong Kong, placed.(Art Underground Manila), Central \nHarbourfront, Hong Kong, March 27 - 31, 2019","literature":"\nReyes, Marc Aran. Between the Shadow and the Soul.<br />\nSan Juan City: Art Underground, 2021. Full-color photograph \non page 112 and painting description on page 113.","write_up":"The empty spaces that largely occupy the works of \nMarc Aran Reyes are hauntingly dream-like. As he \nprovides a sound visual contrast to such emptiness \nwith a hyperrealist style, Reyes is able to create a balance \nthat draws the viewer towards a meditative state. The \ncompositional isolation he employs thus turns into \nsomething more than visual: Isolation in Reyes’ works \nis felt, as the sentimental space lyrically reaches out to \nthe one who views the work. While Reyes maintains that \nthe meticulously detailed character of his pieces are \npersonally intended as expressions of his own perceived \nreality instead of mere representation, said reality—as it \nis presented to the viewer—becomes the audience’s own \nas the canvas turns into a space for introspection.<br /><br />\nThe work at hand is a piece exhibited at the Art Central \nHong Kong in a 2019 solo show entitled Placed. As is \ntypically seen in Reyes’ works, we see here several \ncontrasts at play: detail and emptiness, light and \ndark, weight and lightness. The composition easily \ndraws the eye to the render of a stone pile deliberately \nMarc Aran Reyes. © Photo from Art Central Hong Kong 2019.\ndisproportionate to the other elements in the piece. While \nits arrangement conveys a sense of Zen lightness, the \nhyperrealistic detail and disproportionate size conveys \nweight and materiality. The ghostlike figure that lies on \nits back is a curious image as well with its gossamer \nlightness that seems to succumb to the solidity of all \nother objects in the composition. With such contrasts \nat play in the work, Reyes’ captures all too accurately \nthe weight and lightness that comes with the feeling of \nalienation, or the existential sense of being-out-of-place. \nOn one hand, this feeling of displacement frees one \nfrom the burdensome materiality of the world, but on \nthe other, it also comes with the unbearable weight of \nnothingness. <br /><br />\nThe works of Marc Aran Reyes often have this penchant \nfor problematizing existence. And yet, Reyes shies away \nfrom giving answers or solutions—if they even exist at \nall. Instead, he opts for capturing feeling, and in this \ncase, what he expresses is simply relatable: to feel like \nnothing is both heavy and light. (Pie Tiausas)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":0,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":0,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"UNSOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":0,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":2041,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/4/5/lot/106.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":105,"next":107,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}