{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":46010,"auction_id":93,"set_id":122,"lot_number":"49","artist":"Mark Justiniani (b. 1966)","title":"Gahum","starting_price":800000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2016 (bottom)","medium":"oil on wood","size":"48\" x 18\" (122 cm x 46 cm)","property":null,"coa":"León Gallery wishes to thank the artist for   confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":"Pinto Art Museum","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Mark Justiniani’s Gahum delves deep into the \"magical realist strains\" that the artist had often identified in the early days of his career. Categorized as a social realist in the 1980s and the 1990s, his early paintings portrayed a humorous yet sentimental depiction of the Philippine society as befits an artist born and raised in the politically turbulent 1970s Negros Occidental.<br><br> In his 2016 Gahum, Justiniani’s social realist roots are tempered but no less evident. With the lot in hand, he delves deep into the Filipino concept of power. In his blog entitled Gahum, Our Filipino Concept of Power, Xiao Chua described gahum as power in the Visayan language. The concept alludes to many possible meanings: it can refer to the nature of God, he adds, or the government or man in power. <br><br>“Gahum, as a concept, is a consistent tug-of-war between who will be the leader and the follower to preserve unity and order in a community or society,” writes Adhoniz B. Rebong in the journal Tuos and the Foregrounding of Gahum. “In short, gahum is identified as an authority over a person or situation.”<br><br> Justiniani’s Gahum contextualized this struggle for power and gave it to the ordinary Filipino. Clad in the common white long-sleeves and brown pants, the man clutches a tree branch like a crutch, floating in the dark skies with a calm, serene face. Despite the simple clothing, the man exudes incredible command, gahum in the Visayan language. Power is in the hands of the people, Justiniani implies. This almostmythical view of the legitimacy of power, stemming back to pre-colonial Philippines, lies not within the ruling class but within the masses who had for generations toiled in its land. (Hannah Valiente)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":1700000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1700000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":2042720,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":45570,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/93/122/lot/49.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":48,"next":50,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}