RECURRING FANCIES AT ARTIS CORPUS
Elmer Borlongan and Plet Bolipata join Emmanuel Garibay, Neil Manalo, Thomas Daquioag, Francesca Enriquez, Fernando Modesto, Joseph Serrano, Sandra Palomar, and Trek Valdizno in Recurring Fancies, a gathering of extraordinary large-scale works which have remained in artists’ and private collections over the past 20 years. Recurring Fancies will be on view at Artis Corpus Gallery, 303 Haig Street, Mandaluyong City, from May 1 to 31, with reception on Saturday May 9 at 6pm. Please contact 7174619 or 0920-9537426. The public is cordially invited.
The centerpiece of this show is an important work entitled Sea of Dreams unearthed from the artists’ collection in Casa San Miguel, San Antonio, Zambales. In their joint artists’ statement, Borlongan and Bolipata have written: “This piece is our one and only existing collaborative work. We created it for a show that featured artists-couples' works at the U. P. Vargas Museum in 2000, curated by Ms. Brenda Fajardo and Mr. Bobi Valenzuela. We thought the idea of a married couple working on one painting would be quite interesting, considering our disparate aesthetic choices in subject matter, style, technique, form, and color.”
The original title of this work was Pangamba. The artists decided to delineate the canvas with an interesting curve to separate their respective spaces and to suggest movement. The scene is a fisherman off to sea with his wife bidding him goodbye. This parting of kindred souls heightened all emotions and that one's love for each other at this particular juncture comes to the fore and translates into something very real and almost close to tangible.
The artists continue: “Romance was definitely in the air, as we were then two years into our marriage, when we attacked this canvas. After having come close to a decade of total devotion to our craft, we felt that we could still push this painting and apply everything we had learned these past few years. There is of course, Plet's discovery of collage and Elmer's now highly developed use of color, combined with his ever so reliable deftness of form. We stuck to the original concept of the work and added a dreamy angle to it by placing a Japanese woman carrying balloons further into the background. A picture of a dog barking added sound to the painting and alerts the viewer that something unusual is happening.”
Emmanuel Garibay’s Silip, a work which he made specifically for a show called Birthday Suites in 1992, is another major piece in this show.
Elmer Borlongan and Plet Bolipata join Emmanuel Garibay, Neil Manalo, Thomas Daquioag, Francesca Enriquez, Fernando Modesto, Joseph Serrano, Sandra Palomar, and Trek Valdizno in Recurring Fancies, a gathering of extraordinary large-scale works which have remained in artists’ and private collections over the past 20 years. Recurring Fancies will be on view at Artis Corpus Gallery, 303 Haig Street, Mandaluyong City, from May 1 to 31, with reception on Saturday May 9 at 6pm. Please contact 7174619 or 0920-9537426. The public is cordially invited.
The centerpiece of this show is an important work entitled Sea of Dreams unearthed from the artists’ collection in Casa San Miguel, San Antonio, Zambales. In their joint artists’ statement, Borlongan and Bolipata have written: “This piece is our one and only existing collaborative work. We created it for a show that featured artists-couples' works at the U. P. Vargas Museum in 2000, curated by Ms. Brenda Fajardo and Mr. Bobi Valenzuela. We thought the idea of a married couple working on one painting would be quite interesting, considering our disparate aesthetic choices in subject matter, style, technique, form, and color.”
The original title of this work was Pangamba. The artists decided to delineate the canvas with an interesting curve to separate their respective spaces and to suggest movement. The scene is a fisherman off to sea with his wife bidding him goodbye. This parting of kindred souls heightened all emotions and that one's love for each other at this particular juncture comes to the fore and translates into something very real and almost close to tangible.
The artists continue: “Romance was definitely in the air, as we were then two years into our marriage, when we attacked this canvas. After having come close to a decade of total devotion to our craft, we felt that we could still push this painting and apply everything we had learned these past few years. There is of course, Plet's discovery of collage and Elmer's now highly developed use of color, combined with his ever so reliable deftness of form. We stuck to the original concept of the work and added a dreamy angle to it by placing a Japanese woman carrying balloons further into the background. A picture of a dog barking added sound to the painting and alerts the viewer that something unusual is happening.”
Emmanuel Garibay’s Silip, a work which he made specifically for a show called Birthday Suites in 1992, is another major piece in this show.
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