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PROPERTY FROM THE DON EUGENIO “GENY” LOPEZ JR. COLLECTION Forms signed and dated 1968 (verso) each collage / mixed media 24" x 21" (61 cm x 53 cm) each Accompanied by a certificate issued by Ms. Luisa Luz-Lansigan confirming the authenticity of this lot PROVENANCE: The Luz Gallery WRITE UP: I n 1969, in a one-man exhibition, Arturo Luz had shed any vestiges of figurative reality in his canvases. Gone were his circus performers, his musicians, his acrobats – in their place were patches of colors and papers in various expertly composed shapes in the same vein as Roberto Chabet’s collages. The process is “tedious and mechanical” but as critic Emmanuel Torres writes in his column Way of Seeing, the exhibit is “a visual treat.” The series of work at hand was done a year before Luz’s impactful exhibition. With his canvases now bare of human – or figurative – subjects, his muted colors and geometric shapes reduced his painting to its essence. Luz underwent almost chameleon-like changes throughout his career, going through different art styles, mediums, and periods. He consistently explored new areas instead of exploiting territories he had already mastered, resulting in an interesting and varied oeuvre that the lot at hand makes veritable proof of. (Hannah Valiente)
