Lot 112
LEEROY NEW
b. The Philippines, 1986
SACRED HEART, 2010
Ink and fiberglass
22.5cm x 9.5cm x 43cm; 22.5cm x 9.5cm x 43cm (a set of 2 works)
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Singapore.
ESTIMATE RM 2,000 - 3,500
PRICE REALISED RM 3,360 |
Two hearts for the price of one, and not just any hearts! One seems to be a host of liquid faces, and the other seems like one whole alien body. Leeroy New is one of the Philippines’ most exciting young new multimedia, multidisciplinary, multiplatformed (Art, Design, Films, Fashion, Theatre) Artist, with a capital ‘A.’ For world acclaim, he, together with others like Kermit Tesoro, designed the muscle dress for singing-performing sensation Lady Gaga for her music video, Marry The Night, in 2011 (A mould of Lady Gaga’s body was made with silicon from a clay cast). His 2010 work, Balete, was inspired by Buddhist monks’ saffron robes and native balete strangler vines. In 2005, he won the Grand Prize for Sculptor in the Metrobank Art Awards. He was selected for the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial in 2009 and his Terratoma II (War of the Worlds) was shown at the Singapore Biennale in 2008. He was one of three who won the Ateneo Art Award in 2009, together with Kiri Dalena and Patricia Eustaquio. He graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. |