{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":50135,"auction_id":99,"set_id":131,"lot_number":"45","artist":"Augusto Albor (b. 1948)","title":"\"Temperature\" V-R","starting_price":200000,"signed_dated":"signed and dated 2007 (lower right and verso)","medium":"mixed media","size":"36\" x 36\" (91 cm x 91 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"Augusto “Gus” Albor is one of the prominent abstract Filipino painters working today. He strives to stand out with his own interpretation on minimalist abstraction and an aesthetic that features a unique use of space. Although abstract minimalist in his approach, his usage of paint in his pieces is all but sparse, as the textural treatment of his work exhibits a sense of rawness. As a result, his art evokes an enigmatic visual experience, one that provides him the freedom to explore the possibilities of abstraction as well as outside the existing notions of art.
“Temperature” V-R exhibits the artistic execution of Albor in terms of approach and philosophy. A single shade of gray pervades the canvas, and in the middle is a red line. An allusion to a thermometer, the red line is responsible for the changes in temperature and the creation of different atmospheres — one side is filled with what looks like smoke, and the other, completely empty. However, does it indicate the division of a whole? Or, perhaps, unification? The red line is evocative of the iconic element in Barnett Newman’s art, “zip” as he called it, which indicates a merging or union of the canvas. The beauty in Albor’s art is that it is free from being confined to a specific art movement, safe from conventional contexts and imitation. (P.I.R.)","lot_group":"PAINTING","lot_details_html":"
Augusto Albor (b. 1948) \"Temperature\" V-R signed and dated 2007 (lower right and verso) mixed media 36\" x 36\" (91 cm x 91 cm)