In Odette Cagandahan’s Play Money (2010, 34x33 inches, oil and paper on canvas), the child makes money an integral part of its life, but not for its real essence. Carefully watching children’s casual glances, to them, money is just another toy, or another means to achieve a dream, a mental desire, or even a moment of happiness. Children gather little information. They leave no memory in mind. In her paintings, the artist Cagandahan tries to “capture more of their personality than their physical features.” It is in the uniqueness of gesture, the facial contortion, and in the innate expressions in her paintings that her audiences see the casualness of the child’s attitude toward life itself.
Artis Corpus and Sining Kamalig present PlayGround of the Gods, featuring Odette Cagandahan, Derrick Macutay, and Noel Solis, in an exhibition of paintings featuring the child at play in its own invented mental kingdom. Opens 6pm Monday 6 September 2010 at Level 4 of Gateway Mall, Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City. Runs till 29 Sept. For details, please email artiscorpusgallery@yahoo.com or sms 0920-9537426.
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