Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Bacolod City

ABOUT THE WORK

The sculptural works of National Artist Arturo Luz, though most of the time dramatic in scale, share the minimalism of his paintings. No extraneous detail disrupts the spare elegance of his three-dimensional forms. An example would be his sculpture that is based on the structure of the humble paperclip, which the artist would twist and turn to express an evocative form. Enlarged and painted in black (such as the one across Ayala Museum), it becomes free-standing sculpture of consummate beauty, whose open form allows the free flow of space. A simple object is transformed into something monumental and unavoidable, a proof that any material can achieve grandeur in the hands of a master.