Travel notes on Rico Lascano’s Siargao
A travel brochure states: “Siargao is an island located off the northeastern coast of Mindanao. It is shaped like a teardrop and is composed of 48 smaller islands and islets.
A travel brochure states: “Siargao is an island located off the northeastern coast of Mindanao. It is shaped like a teardrop and is composed of 48 smaller islands and islets.
The art of our time is noisy with appeals for silence. How gratifying therefore that in our cacophonous midst there are still artists who recognize the imperative of silence, from
Rico Lascano’s “Continuum,” which opens May 24 at Galerie Roberto, continues his abstractionist path that however evokes the elements.
On view at Art Anton is Rico Lascano’s “Heofon,” the title coming from an Old English word meaning “the heavens or the skies.” The artist intends to evoke celestial space—boundless, endless, with no beginning or end, eternal. In brief, a space where the Divine resides.
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.
Art Anton presents the recent works of two of the country’s dedicated abstractionists, Benjie Cabangis and Rico Lascano, in the show “Substance-Essence,” which opens March 18 at 4 p.m. Wassily
The sprawling $1.2-billion property, Solaire Resort & Casino, has been featured dozens of times since it opened two years ago, but it has another ace up its sleeve which may
Rico Loscano’s ongoing 11th solo exhibition at the Astra Gallery is right on track, as organic as the passing seasons, shifting in mood and temper, but ever sustaining the artist’s commitment to nature and the elements.
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