Norberto Carating channels his love of music in ‘Moonlight Sonata’
As a young man, painter Norberto “Lito” Carating aspired to the highest art: He wanted to make music. Specifically, he wanted to sing opera.
As a young man, painter Norberto “Lito” Carating aspired to the highest art: He wanted to make music. Specifically, he wanted to sing opera.
Apropos the abstractionists of his own country, the critic David Sylvester once wrote: “The difference is not between a poetic art and an art which has physical presence and no soul: it is the difference between an art which relies on evoking things outside itself, an art that is somehow transparent, and an art which evokes other things only when it has firmly and decisively established its own reality.”
Foremost abstractionist Norberto Carating will mount his new solo exhibit, “Lunar Cycle,” which opens Feb. 17, at the Galerie Joaquin, Podium, Mandaluyong City. Fourteen exquisite pieces comprise the show
A GENERATION of abstractionists emerged in the 1970s, mostly from the University of the Philippines, spawned by the incalculable inspiration, if not influence, of premier abstractionist Jose Joya, dean of
FOR VISUAL artist Norberto Carating, the fact that he and two other Filipino visual artists got invited to the Venice Biennale without any government funding showed that Philippine art was
Painter Norberto Carating held his first solo exhibition exactly 40 years ago at Galerie Bleue in Rustan’s Makati.
In moments of anger, he scratches the paint with fierceness. When he is trying to contain his emotions, the ridges become straight, deliberate and ordered.
In “Norberto Carating: Artist Collection in Retrospect,” abstract artist Norberto de Guzman Carating looks back at the last 45 years of his career.
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