This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by Dennis K. Legaspi confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

Always the abstractionist who uses geometric decompositions of shapes and distinct coloring, Cesar Legaspi incorporates a dynamic human figure in this abstract human energized by a vortex cum orb that he created a year before his death in 1994. The complex interweaving of elements makes the work a challenge to read visually but it does create a unifying rhythm across the canvas. In place of any central focus is a general impression of energy and movement. What rocked the academic establishments of the time, even more, was the neorealist assumption that art didn’t have to soothe nerves or bring relaxation, but rather to open their eyes to new ways of seeing, to shake people up from complacency and presupposition, to make them think. But within this limited range, Legaspi is able to produce infinitely subtle tonal gradations and a subdued phosphorescent sheen. With a strong belief that art is produced by one’s internal reaction to the environment and reactions to oneself, he focuses on recentering and looking inside himself in search of inspiration and subjects.