Mention the word “dislocation” and the reader instantly thinks of bones and joints and physical damage to the human body due to violence or accidents. But dislocation occurs most traumatically in the human spirit, as attested to by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Styron, author of Sophie’s Choice and Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness.”
Many artists hog the pictorial space so tightly as to hardly leave any breathing space, driving the painting to a state of exhaustion by the sheer ceaseless manipulation and meandering of the plastic elements; so manic is their desire to display a technical skill. Alas, space cannot be owned by an artist like acreage, tilled and furrowed to yield a relentless harvest.
The jeepney is a recurring image in the art of Edwin Wilwayco, who in previous exhibitions, has devoted entire shows on the subject. To be sure, the artist is aware that the subject, like the barong-barong or squatter shanties, has also been a staple in other artists such as Antonio Austria, Vicente Manansala and Cesar Legaspi: It has already been invested with iconic status in Philippine iconography.
But once in the driver’s seat, so to say, Wilwayco, true to his own stylistic temperament, takes the jeepney on a spin.
In the history of Philippine sculpture, there was one man who single-handedly led the three-dimensional art from out of the...
In 2008, at the Beijing Olympics, the judges in the International Olympic Committee Sport and Art Contest (Sculpture Category) sifted...
Portraiture and still-life paintings are Tessie Sarmiento-Duldulao’s forte. The first challenges the artist to capture the sitter’s character and likeness;...
Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.” Thus said the French sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. The...
Of course, one cannot look at the works of Charlie Co without being keenly aware that this resilient artist has been admirably fighting a war on two fronts.
She is blessed with a double-edged gift: the glory of a great name and the immense responsibility and challenge of living up to it.
Charles Baudelaire, the 19th-century French poet and critic, remarked that once an artist has found the subject he was born...
