{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":47289,"auction_id":95,"set_id":125,"lot_number":"40","artist":"Kawayan de Guia (b. 1979)","title":"Room #4 Rene Aquitania","starting_price":600000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2006 (lower right)","medium":"mixed media on canvas","size":"44\" x 45\" (112 cm x 114 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"The Drawing Room","exhibited":"The Drawing Room, \"Incubator\", 28 July - 19 August 2008.<br /> The Incubator Series would win for Kawayan de Guia the Ateneo Art Award of 2008.","literature":null,"write_up":"Kayawan de Guia’s mixed media collages are an interesting and panoramic view of Filipino history and psyche. “The common Filipino is a maximalist, filling up every available space with forms and things,” writes Prof. Felipe M. de Leon, Jr. in “In Focus: Life as Art – The Creative, Healing Power in Philippine Culture” and viewers are sure to marvel at de Guia’s irreverent critiques that are full of cheeky imagery and loaded symbolism.<br /><br />The lot at hand Room #4 Rene Aquitania was created in 2006, two years prior to his conferment of the prestigious Ateneo Art Award – Fernando Zóbel Prizes for Visual Art. It is an ode to fellow Cordilleran artist Rene Aquitania whose works draw on the mundane to pose a critique on socio- political realities.<br /><br />Rene Aquitania was born into a Philippine art scene that had been transformed during the time when– independent artist-run spaces proliferated the scene, a precursor of the horizontal, peer-to-peer relationships to come. These spaces helped breed a drastically different artistic landscape that cultivated experimental contemporary styles.<br /><br />It was this bohemian atmosphere that preceded the piece. The canvas was constricted into a closed-off, almost claustrophobic room very similar to the aesthetic of liminal spaces. Though the work was done a decade before the term gained popularity, it embodied the liminality that pervades the aesthetic. The room is full of trinkets that span different periods of Philippine history – here lays a bul’ul, on another corner an analog television. Despite the full room, however, the place feels transitionary, devoid of any elements to tether the work to a distinct period.<br /><br />Kawayan de Guia reworks nostalgia into his pieces, creating an oeuvre that feels both dated and timeless all at once. He ditches conventional storytelling methods, using disconnected imagery that is as isolated to the other elements as it is coherent with each other. His visual vocabulary taps into the rich pool of our collective consciousness and with it, he expands the emotional depth and reach of his works. (Hannah Valiente)","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":600000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":600000,"userBid":5930,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":720960,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":46976,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/95/125/lot/40.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":39,"next":41,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}