{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":47258,"auction_id":95,"set_id":125,"lot_number":"9","artist":"Edwin Wilwayco (b.1952)","title":"Climbing Vines #61 / Luminous Leaves","starting_price":160000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 1999 (lower right)","medium":"oil on canvas","size":"34\" x 32\" (86 cm x 81 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Galleria Duemila","exhibited":"Galleria Duemila, Vine Series II,  Pasay City, November 1999","literature":null,"write_up":"Edwin Wilwayco’s “vine” paintings possess colors bursting at the seams and vivid brush strokes; they are fauvist portraits of the natural world. Wilwayco debuted his “Vine Series” in a 1998 solo exhibition at the Lopez Museum Gallery and would continue to showcase them in a 1999 one-man show at Galleria Duemila titled “Vine Series II,” where the work at hand was exhibited.<br /><br />The artist’s Vine Series was born due to Wilwayco’s studio being surrounded by lush gardens, which functioned as a miniature ecosystem in itself. In his artist’s statement during his 1998 Lopez Museum Gallery show, Wilwayco said (as articulated by art critic Emmanuel Torres) that the vine paintings are meant to push his creative boundaries “over the edge” and “produce a tension more absorbing than that of the “vines” he has clung to long enough.”<br /><br /> With their dynamic vitality, the vine paintings were a natural progression and an artistic evolution from the wild exuberance of his Jeepney Fantasia and the chromatic allure of the Heliconia: Birds of Paradise. The warm colors of Wilwayco’s vines sing the praises of a sublime living and a sacred existence. As what Climbing Vines #61 encapsulates, with its blazing reds, sinuous curves, and supple forms, Wilwayco’s Vine Series exalts nature as our shared lifeblood and the firm giver of a much-needed respite amid the pains and adversities of a mortal existence. (Adrian Maranan)","lot_group":"Painting","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":0,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":0,"userBid":null,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"UNSOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":0,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":46947,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/95/125/lot/9.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[70000,80000,90000,100000,110000,120000,130000,140000,150000,160000,170000,180000,190000,200000,220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":8,"next":10,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}