{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":47421,"auction_id":95,"set_id":125,"lot_number":"175","artist":"Santiago Bose (1949 - 2002)","title":"August Deities","starting_price":400000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1976 (verso)","medium":"mixed media","size":"44\" x 32\" x 2\" (112 cm x 81 cm x 5 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Government Service Insurance System (GSIS)","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"A common answer to the question: What is Contemporary Art? is oftentimes along the lines of picking a specific date or decade in which art, more or less, began to shed off its predominantly Modernist inclinations. Others might suggest that Contemporary Art is Modernism’s logical next step given advancements in technology. While some posit that Contemporary Art is merely a chronological marker, pertaining to art created during (arguably) the 80s to the present day no matter its style or subject. But such answers do not seem to satisfy. For if they did, scholars alike would no longer be using such a question as a fundamental jumping point for their practice. Though vague and obtuse, in a place where words cannot easily reach is a nagging feeling that there are works whose ethos cannot be located purely within the Modern; and to call them contemporary merely only because of happenstance does not fit the bill either. These works are unabashedly novel, but more importantly striking in the way they are able to dissect the world around them. The works of Santiago Bose belong to such a group.<br /><br />Though one cannot deny the talents of Bose, it is important to note that his artistic practice was not born in a vacuum. The philosopher Thomas Kuhn posits that great ideas are not merely born from bouts of genius, but are products of their time, circumstance, and culture as well. Kuhn introduced the concept of \"paradigm shifts\" to describe the fundamental changes in the scientific worldview that occur when a prevailing scientific paradigm is replaced by a new one. According to Kuhn, scientific progress is not a smooth, cumulative process but rather a series of revolutionary changes. Kuhn distinguished between \"normal science\" and periods of scientific revolution. In normal science, researchers work within an accepted paradigm, solving puzzles and anomalies that arise within that framework. Normal science is characterized by a stable set of beliefs, methods, and practices shared by a scientific community. One can argue that such an approach can also be applied to art. Among the reasons as to why the Sistine Chapel was adorned with High Renaissance instead of Abstract Expressionism was because of the paradigm of what art was and what it is allowed to be. Such can be said for Bose, who developed his practice in a not only rapidly-changing and industrial landscape, but one that is increasingly aware of its surroundings.<br /><br />August Deities acts as an object of remembrance. Comprising materials and objects once thought to be antithetical to art, the work presents itself as aesthetically and culturally aware of its existence. Here we see figures rising from, or perhaps bathing in some sort of river; their faces obscure but their body bare. Their background features a landscape that The work may be read as among Bose’s foray into religiously and mysticism; but in a mode that is not entirely idolatry, but one that practices reverence through a sense of awareness. The materiality of the work can be interpreted as a critique of the establishment that came before it. Thus, August Deities is an act of remembrance in the way it reflects an awareness of what came before the contemporary condition, a recognition of our present predicament, and a call to action for what is yet to come. (Jed Daya)","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":600000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":600000,"userBid":6890,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":720960,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":46934,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/95/125/lot/175.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":174,"next":176,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}