Bag-Ong Hinan-Aw
Viewing Tradition in a New Way
June 7 to 25, 2011
Group Exhibition
PUBLIO BRIONES JR.
CARLOS FLORIDO
JONATHAN GALICANO
LUTHER GALICANO II
FLORENTINO IMPAS JR.
FACUNDO TALLO JR.
JOSE VILLADOLID
Finale Art File
Warehouse 17, La Fuerza Compound
2241 Chino Roces Avenue (Pasong Tamo)
Makati City 1231
Unique to Cebuano contemporary figurative artists is a sense of disciplined craftsmanship imbibed from an academic tradition: tonal value, composition, and naturalistic rendering retain the key standards that they once occupied a century ago, and passed down from one maestro to the next. In this case, it was Carcar-based Martino Abellana (1914-1988), who was taught by Fernando Amorsolo at UP Manila in the 1930s; and who in turn taught Sofronio Y. Mendoza, a.k.a. Sym, and Romulo “Molong” Galicano in Carcar in the 1950s and Sixties. Since the Eighties, a group of emerging and senior Cebuano artists have gravitated around Galicano’s leadership, which emphasized both traditional standards of representational painting, and its fusion with modern conceptual even abstract approaches, asserting a middle path through which contemporary art can retain its contextual vibrancy, social effect, and aesthetic intellect.
