{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":33115,"auction_id":41,"set_id":66,"lot_number":"36","artist":"Geraldine Javier (b.1970)","title":"SNOW (Diptych)","starting_price":1400000,"signed_dated":"2010","medium":"oil on canvas and embroidery,","size":"in 2 parts  each: 53 1/2”x 44 1/2” (136 cm x 113 c","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Provenance:  Private Collection, Singapore;  Sothe","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Things seen and things imagined — revelation and concealment  — are at the heart of this work by Geraldine Javier. Her art is full  of enigmatic surprises of time and place, so much so that it lingers  in the eye long after one has taken their leave of it.  Javier's work is best known for its blending of various media  — sometimes with her oil paintings incorporated into installation  art, and sometimes with various media such as embroidery  prominently incorporated into her canvas, sewing motifs like  tapestries into a dual image that vaguely evokes the feeling  of home.  Words are of little importance to Geraldine Javier. The dialogue  between her works and the audience happens beyond the realm  of language, the visual experience evokes sensation without  touching on words. Counting on materiality, her work “Snow”  locks your gaze, turning your attention inwards; time slows. The  embroidery textures are fine, precise, deftly controlled. The way the  she handles her materials offers clues about her temperament and  personality. Her work exudes calculated restraint and discipline.  The artist does not surrender to intuition; she plots out her  strategies before getting on with work. Through her conceptually-oriented training under the seminal Roberto  Chabet at University of the Philippines (UP), Javier, like many of her peers,  has acquired the predilection for making art which emphasizes  intellectual engagement over immediate emotional response. The  diptych SNOW is charged with tension and provocation, combining  cool, calculated sophistication with naïve craftiness. The images she  creates offer the paradox of recognition and uncertainty. Her work  make you concentrate, look at things twice. The eye combs through the  image; it seems familiar, yet something is off-kilter.  It could be in the contrast between shadow and light. The proportions  of the images also affect the way our eye will read it; a devious tweak  in scale, enlarging the leaves against a dark background or reducingthe  bird emblems with a white embroidered background, deliberately  accentuates visual tension. One needs time with Javier’s work. The still  images are charged with an unhurried energy, silent, harboring secrets  of their own, awaiting the onlooker to unravel their mysteries. They do  not ask the audience to bring the images to life in their imagination, but  to see the life that is in them. They resonate with a personal history,  of how they came to be, and how they are now marooned in this  suspended space.  Looking at Javier’s work also connects us to another kind of past.  Her work sets off a host of visual triggers that stretch deep into our  memories. Works such as this prefigure the concept of a work of art in  which the content is subordinated to the design elements. Her work  seems poised to unleash childhood memories one cannot pin down and  thoughts, inner violence and veiled hostilities that inhabit the deep dark  crevices of our minds. Such is the authority Geraldine Javier has over her  creations that they lure us into believing that something is stirring; the  thoughts that occupy us are too far from words to be something we can  control.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":0,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":0,"userBid":5927,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"UNSOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":0,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":31073,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/41/66/lot/36.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":35,"next":37,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}