Trio Performers #61
signed2021
mild stainless steel
11 1/2" x 6 1/2" x 12 1/2" (29 cm x 17 cm x 32 cm)

Accompanied by a certificate issued by Ms. Luisa Luz-Lansiganconfirming the authenticity of this lot




One of the muses that Arturo Luz frequently courts are circus performers. Throughout his prolific 40-year career, images of cyclists and jugglers in the peryas he visits so often find themselves on his canvases and later, as the artist expands his horizon, in various mediums as seen in his 2021 Trio Performers #61. With the lot in hand, the geometric minimalism that marked Luz’s circus paintings translates into thin, straight steels he used as the performers' arms and legs. Although sculpture is inherently three-dimensional, Luz echoes his two-dimensional paintings by using flat circles and triangles for the monocycles and the performers' bodies, respectively. His unique visual language transcends art mediums; indeed Luz’s Trio Performers #61, much like his notable circus paintings, replicates the joy of a nighttime perya, its entertainment stimulating and accessible to the Filipino masses (Hannah Valiente)