THE ANCESTRY OF THE STONE

Galleria Duemila presents
CESARE A. X. SYJUCO
THE ANCESTRY OF THE STONE
HIS NEW LITERARY HYBRIDS
JULY 24 – AUGUST 28
OPENING RECEPTION: 24 JULY 2010, SATURDAY, 4:30 P. M.

Multi-award-winning painter, poet and critic Cesare A.X. Syjuco unveils his recent works at Galleria Duemila on July 24, Saturday, at 4:30 p.m. Entitled “The Ancestry of a Stone”, the exhibition will showcase Syjuco’s latest forays into the literary and the visual, featuring his “New Literary Hybrids”.

Cesare A.X. Syjuco is a multifaceted artist, whose groundbreaking experimental cross-disciplinary works since the 1970’s has been seminal in the country’s continuing and steady dialogue with new genres. He is a founding member of an alternative artist-run gallery called, Art Lab, a primary venue for conceptual Art in the country in the early 1990’s. Once widely regarded as “the Golden Boy of Philippine Art”, his remarkably varied distinctions have included the prestigious TOYM (Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines) Award for Art & Culture Advancement, the Gawad CCP Sa Sining Biswal from the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature in Poetry, the Gold Medal for Painting from the Art Association of the Philippines, and the first Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Award for Art Criticism to name a few.