{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":38816,"auction_id":54,"set_id":82,"lot_number":"97","artist":"Jose John Santos III (b. 1970)","title":"Movement, Non-Movement and Lostness","starting_price":1800000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1997 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"46” x 39” (117 cm x 99 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Boston Gallery","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"In the highly symbolic figurative works of Jose John Santos III, the  viewer usually detects a story.  In Movement, Non-Movement, and  Lostness, one may read it as a kind of scroll starting from the top with  the juxtaposition of a page from a book (a recurring trope of the artist) and an image of a god breaking through the pictorial surface.  Beneath them are depictions of sculptures in contrapposto (which was one of the achievements of Classical Greek period) between which a pair of human legs are being lifted in a seeming act of transcendence.  On the right  is a naked man in a top hat and slippers sitting by the steps leading to the open sky.  These are figures in stasis, providing contrast to two similar  figures below who are about to walking opposite directions:  one,  blindfolded, about to crash against a wall;  the other, unrestricted,  stepping into an expansive space only bordered by the edge of the  painting.  Meanwhile, a man in a suit falls in a hole, serving  as a counterpoint to the pair of legs freed from gravity.\nAs what the title suggests, the work is an inquiry into the body’s  navigation through space, as enacted by the figures made familiar  to us by art history.  With that said, there is something about the work that resists cataloguing and description, as their relationships are disparate and unwieldy.  Are the figures essentially the same man?  How is the painting an instance of architecture that contains all these references?  What is the connection between the text and the figures?  In being able to raise these questions, the painting is essentially an enigma, whose circularity also raises questions of its own:  To what point art history should be intelligible as reference?  What are the dangers when a painting is read as text?  The “movement, non-movement, and lostness” alluded to in the title are enacted through streams of idea, as the work delivers the viewer to the edge of the possibility of painting which, in the hands of Jose John Santos III, becomes synonymous with risk, freedom, and conceptual daring.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Jose John Santos III</strong> (b.1970) <br /><em>Movement, Non-Movement and Lostness</em><br />signed and dated 1997 (lower right)<br />oil on canvas<br />46&rdquo; x 39&rdquo; (117 cm x 99 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":7500000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":7500000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":8760000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":37226,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/54/82/lot/97.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":96,"next":98,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}