{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":39967,"auction_id":61,"set_id":89,"lot_number":"62","artist":"Ronald Ventura  (b. 1973)","title":"Void","starting_price":3000000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2001 (lower left)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"71” x 59” (180 cm x 150 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Private Collection, Singapore","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"One of the most important works of Ronald Ventura to recently emerge in the market is Void — a monumental paean to the body in motion, fully expressed by every sinewy of muscle, by every articulation of bone.  The work, which Ventura produced soon after the turn of the millennium, belongs to an important phase of the artist in which he was extending the limits and creating his own interpretation of the male nude.\nHere, the nude is marmoreal, suffused with a cold, burning light (look how his hands glow radioactive).  But unlike his other nudes, the figure is in mid-motion, seemingly running away from an undifferentiated nature into a commotion of darkness into which his head disappears: the void alluded to in the title.  Against a background of industrial dystopia (or, possibly, contained conflagration), the body springs headlong in the yawning darkness that meets us all in death — the obliterating destiny — his shadow extinguished.\nOne of the primary achievements of this painting is its reinterpretation of classical symmetry.  While the figure is front and  center, it diagonally bisects the picture plane, evoking a balance between the upper righthand and the lower lefthand sides  of the painting.  The movement of the body is stabilized by the upper vertical line, a suggested horizon that enacts depth  in the seemingly contained space of the composition.\nThe body, certainly, can represent everyman, and it is within Ventura’s conceptual frame to inflect his imagery with metaphorical implications.  But there is nothing to doubt that the body is all its own, solidity and heft made flesh, sculptural in its strength and dynamism, all displayed in a supreme moment of metamorphosis.  Void is definitely one of the high peaks in Ventura’s  storied, far-ranging, and unmatched body of work.","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Ronald Ventura</strong> (b.1973)<br /><em>Void</em><br />signed and dated 2001 (lower left)<br />oil on canvas<br />71&rdquo; x 59&rdquo; (180 cm x 150 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":7000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":7000000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":8176000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":38467,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/61/89/lot/62.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":61,"next":63,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}