{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":50207,"auction_id":99,"set_id":131,"lot_number":"118","artist":"Arturo Luz (1926 - 2021)","title":"Untitled Collage No. 9","starting_price":1000000,"signed_dated":"dated 1988","medium":"acrylic collage","size":"artwork: 42\" x 36\" (107 cm x 91 cm) frame: 63\" x 57 1/2\" (160 cm x 146 cm)","property":null,"coa":"Accompanied by a certificate issued by Ms. Luisa Luz-Lansigan confirming the authenticity of this lot","provenance":"The Luz Gallery Multinational Bancorporation Collection","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Arturo Luz started to explore the art form of the collage in the late 1960s, when he abandoned figurative art. In Cid Reyes’ book on the artist, Luz shares: “Through the twenty years or so that I have been painting, it has always been at the back of mind to work in a completely nonfigurative, non-objective style…By working on collage, I was able to leave out figuration completely. Collage was the bridge I used to shift to total abstraction.”
Purely gestural in essence, Luz evokes in this piece the spontaneity of Zen aesthetics, yielding himself to his creative impulses. Leonidas Benesa writes: “In the past, Luz worked out his aesthetic problems methodically. But in the new works, there is a great deal of Zen gesture, the spontaneous act of the T’ang calligrapher, the unconscious mind waking and expressing itself not in the ‘birds of the inner eye’ of Graves, nor in the white writings of Tobey, nor in the ‘surrealist-tainted hieroglyphs’ of Klee, but in Luz’s own ‘night poems’ in black and white with some red or orange, in ideograms of the spirit.” (A.M.)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Arturo Luz (1926 - 2021) Untitled Collage No. 9 dated 1988 acrylic collage artwork: 42\" x 36\" (107 cm x 91 cm) frame: 63\" x 57 1/2\" (160 cm x 146 cm)