{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":37108,"auction_id":47,"set_id":75,"lot_number":"141","artist":"Ang Kiukok (1931-2005)","title":"Third Station: Jesus Falls The First Time","starting_price":7000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1996 (upper left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"24” x 48” (61 cm x 122 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, Manila","exhibited":null,"literature":"Roces, Alfredo, Kiukok: Deconstructing Despair, Finale Art File, Mandaluyong City, Philippines, p. 398 (illustrated); Finale Art File, \"Via Dolorosa - Ang Kiukok\", Makati City, Philippines, 2017, (illustrated)","write_up":"The sacred is not confined to the religious. It is also very much part of the everyday in which we live, the bold iconography of Ang Kiukok, may appear to some as a religious statement, but it is not. His art is just as rooted firmly in the secular world with its own realities of the mysterious and the sacred. Ang Kiukok took to depicting Christ in a state of depicting agony. In the crucifix, devout believers traditionally seek consolation in contemplating the Savior arrayed as one of them in deep agony.   The most recognizable and equally critically acclaimed works of Ang Kiukok are those in the Crucifixion series. A somewhat touchy subject, Christ is seen as pained and tortured by society and expresses at the same time the hope of redemption from worldly shackles.   This depiction of the fallen Christ with the Cross weighing him down him is an outraged cry of protest on one hand and a quiet plea on the other, against man’s inhumanity to man, against corruption, meanness and human degradation. An exceedingly melancholic image of the Passion of Jesus Christ broods under the weight of the cross pinning him down.     Ang Kiukok’s bleak imagery of the crucifixion can be related to a comment of his saying that Christ died for nothing because the world has not changed. Ang Kiukok has not turned back to medieval prototypes but instead, through economy of gesture, restraint in overt expression of emotion, and austere use of color, he has created his own meditative images of remarkable force.   The fresco like composition is severe. Here the palette is restrained as if Ang Kiukok thought rich and varied colors were as likely to distract from spiritual contemplation. The mitered blue gray planes on the upper right corner give a perceived feeling of a virtual coffin, punctuated by a grim black moon. There is no attempt to create any more than the bare essentials of picture space; this particular spur to devotion required no more. For Ang Kiukok, too elaborate a spatial framework as much as excessive use of color, decoration, or narrative, could detract from the picture’s power.   The composition, in spite of its severity has a complete spatial unity. The space is kept shallow, and the picture generally is subtly abstract — that is, the forms in it don’t lose their identity as much as they exist for form’s sake. The viewer would more fully enjoy pure form, pure color and pure arrangement because he or she is less diverted by incidental interests.   Ang Kiukok’s depiction of the suffering Christ took a tortuous evolution all in its own. In a June 1974 article, Eric Torres wrote:   “A more notable transmutation occurs in the large Crucifixions. No longer have the serene, static crucified Christs of the fifties and sixties, these later ones written with Grunewaldian anguish. Like the Crucifixions, the color stresses are morose blues and reds, which heighten the phantasmagoric character of these.”","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":8000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":8000000,"userBid":5927,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":9344000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":35129,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/47/75/lot/141.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":140,"next":142,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}