{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":40238,"auction_id":63,"set_id":91,"lot_number":"100","artist":"Arturo Luz (1926 - 2021)","title":"Untitled","starting_price":700000,"signed_dated":"dated ca.1978","medium":"painted burlap","size":"40 1/2” x 101” (103 cm x 257 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"This work by Arturo Luz is very much similar to his “Improvisation for Moholy Nagy” (1980) which is featured in the book “Kayamanan: 77 Paintings from the Central bank Collection.” In the words of Emmanuel Torres, “…Luz has assembled black and light gray burlap pieces overlapping each other, recalling the collages of Burri and Afro.  In contrast to those two expressionists, however, Luz manages to satisfy his penchant for neatness and order.  And the austere elegance of past works still prevails in this realization of Le Corbusier’s less is more esthetic.”  In Chapter Six of the book ARTURO LUZ, Cid Reyes writes: “…In 1979, after many years of his art lying fallow, Luz rebounded in one intense period of work.  A new material and a new medium attracted the artist’s imagination: burlap, in place of the traditional canvas…. In an informal, free-wheeling, and  resolutely abstract approach to collage, his talent for composition also asserted itself.” “Says Luz: ‘The burlap works of the Italian artists Alberto Burri and the Spaniard Millares triggered my curiosity and my interest about this material…’ “  “The burlap project went on for two years, yielding an astonishing number of pieces. Many of these pieces have yet to be  exhibited.” Every part of the design in this untitled work relates integrally to every other part with a perfectionist’s eye for rational order and clarity. Luz practices an art of detachment and serenity where minimum means are employed to bring about maximum results. The less is more aesthetic of traditional Japanese shibui and the rational theories of the Bauhaus School have always had a  profound influence on the qualities of the works of Arturo Luz.  He is one Filipino artist who has no sense of ‘horror vacui’ (‘fear of space’).  Instead of preoccupying himself with details, he prefers to leave a lot of space around for his forms to be suspended in.  totally lacking volume, the forms appear weightless. This untitled work discloses a subtle intelligence at work, carefully deleting the overpowering effect of everylinear and geometric shape, all woven with the patience of a spider.  This untitled work is high art as much as it is also high design. Cid Reyes asked Luz in 1973: \"How do you know when you have a design that works?\" Luz: \"Instinct.  I don't know how much you have studied, say, design or color,but I went through grueling years of almost  nothing but design and color, doing literally hundreds of exercises. I suppose at the end of such a training, you develop this instinct for design.  It becomes second nature to you. Well, of course, you can sit down and analyze all the inter relationships among the different shapes.... if you wish.  You can look at any object, any art, or building, even, and analyze it purely in terms  of design; but I can't do this.  Everything to me has become instinctive.  I can tell you in a second if a certain design \"works.\"  I react to it instinctively, and I react to it very quickly.\"","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Arturo Luz</strong> (1926 - 2021)<br /><em>Untitled</em><br />Ca.1978<br />painted burlap<br />40 1/2&rdquo; x 101&rdquo; (103 cm x 257 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":1200000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1200000,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":0,"hammer_price":1401600,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":39190,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/63/91/lot/100.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":99,"next":101,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}