{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":1862,"auction_id":4,"set_id":5,"lot_number":"12","artist":"Ronald Ventura (b. 1973)","title":"Into The Woods 2","starting_price":4000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2012 (center bottom)","medium":"Frottage, Ink, acrylic, cast paper, <br>shaped handmade paper an kobo paper on linen canvas","size":"96\" x 78 1/2\" x 6 1/2\"(243 cm x 199.5 cm x 17 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":"Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Ronald Ventura: Recyclables, Singapore, November 17 - December 15, 2012 Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Paper Pushers: Methods & Materials (Group Show), Singapore, March 1 - April 5, 2014","literature":"Ventura, Ronald, Adele Tan, and Clarissa Chikiamco. Ronald Ventura: Recyclables (Exhibition Catalog). Singapore: Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), 2012.<br /> Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the STPI from November 17 to December 15, 2012. Fullcolor photograph and painting description on page 40.","write_up":"“Did you ever stop to notice<br />\nThis crying Earth, these weeping shores?”<br /><br />\n—MICHAEL JACKSON,“EARTH SONG,” 1995<br /><br />\n“We are constantly reminded of it. In the newspapers, on TV, on the \nInternet. “The world is collapsing around our ears,” sings Michael \nStipe in one of REM’s songs from the album “Out of Time.” The \nsigns are all there. Global warming. Terrible floods. Strange weather. \nSome species following the way of the dodo and becoming zoological \nfootnotes. Diminishing resources. The only thing missing would be \nsigns in yellow ochre-and-black telling us that the end of the world \nis nigh.<br /><br />\nUnless. We. Do. Something. About. It.”<br /><br />\n—EXCERPTS FROM RONALD VENTURA’S <br />\n“ART AND NATURE’S REVENGE,” IN “RONALD <br />\nVENTURA: RECYCLABLES”<br /><br />\nInto the Woods 2 is one of three works Ronald Ventura \ncreated for his 2012 show at the Singapore Tyler \nPrint Institute (STPI). Just recently, Into the Woods 3 \nwas successfully auctioned by León Gallery in its 'The \nSpectacular Mid-Year Auction 2023.' Titled 'Recyclables,' \nVentura's show at the STPI elevates nature—its \nformidability, haunting fragility, and eventual unforgiving \nwrath—as the ultimate protagonist.<br /><br /> \nInto the Woods 2 and the other works in the exhibition \nshowcase Ventura's versatility and experimentality. \nAccording to its website, STPI is \"committed to promoting \nartistic experimentation in the mediums of print and \npaper and has become one of the most cutting-edge \ndestinations for contemporary art in Asia.\" Since his \nassociation and work with the STPI, Ventura \"has \nconsciously created artworks that would resonate \nwith the theme of conservation and how urgent it is to \naddress environmental concerns,\" as he puts it in his \nartist's statement, \"Art and Nature's Revenge,\" published \nin the 'Recyclables' exhibition catalog. He sees the STPI \nas \"where materials can be reused and recycled into even \nbetter, more ecologically-sound materials for making art.\"<br /><br /> \nIn his Into the Woods works, Ventura mixes paper \ncasts and frottages rubbed from his collection of indigenous woodworks to form an enchanting image of \na tree inhabited by flora and fauna cast from his diverse \nassemblage of wooden articles. The result is both a \nremembrance of nature's benevolence and a warning of \nits overpowering retaliation principally due to capitalist \nexploitation—that mercenary socio-economic order.<br /><br /> \nThere is an indigenous-like character weaved in the \nwork at hand. It resembles a sacred tree held in \nutmost reverence (and, at the same time, feared for its \nunforgiving wrath), in which people gather to venerate \nnature and its gifts and all the creatures that live within \nthe circle of life. By using recycled paper as his base, \nVentura weaves inspiration from indigenous practices, \ngaining knowledge from the very heart and soul of \none's motherland. The artist celebrates and promotes \nindigenous peoples' understanding of how human lives \nare inherently tied to the land and environment. These \npeoples have been practicing sustainability and have \nestablished harmony with nature, taking only what they \nneed and thus, allowing the Earth's natural regenerative \npowers to occur undisturbed. Ventura espouses that \ncreativity and sustainability are not mutually exclusive; \nboth sustenance and cultural/creative expressions are \ntied to the environment's welfare.<br /><br /> \n \nInto the Woods 2 pushes us to return to our roots—to go \nback into the woods, in which paradise lost is regained \nand all creatures extol the virtues of the living world, \nexisting in melodic concordance. 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