Afterthought
Leo Abaya and the Illusion of Desire
There is a sense of theatricality in Leo Abaya’s work. Not quite over the top, but neither simple nor quiet; his artwork make strong statements about humanity, whether it is the body, the psyche, or how humans interact with one another. He observes Philippine society and records his observations as art, leaving behind commentary – not quite a complaint, but not a compliment either. He is subversive, preferring the subtlety of espionage as opposed to the vulgarity of an open attack. Abaya could be dangerously in the domain of being here nor there, but no, he has made himself a force to contend with; someone who knows who he is, what he’s saying, and what he stands for.
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Beyond Reality
With his decadent use of color and singular portraits of women, harlequins and musicians in an infectious state of gaiety, expressionist Mario Parial has been known to take his audience to a whimsical journey into his realm of paradise, festivities and folk imagery.
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Musical Journey
Director Roxanne Lapus has a deep, dark secret: she hates “Sound of Music.”
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Mideo Cruz: His Thorny Avenue of Liberation
All the provocative paintings, installation and performance art done by Mideo “Deo” Cruz have one source: his deep-seated awareness of and resentment against his country’s historical colonialism. After several years of art studies at the University of Santo Tomas in 1992, Mideo’s major productions, done in 1998, 2005 and 2006 marked a hidden desire to free his “wounded country” from the massive maw of its colonial past. For the soft spoken and shy artist, his attempts to satirize the vestiges of a colonial past -- although seen by others as a thorny avenue of liberation or a belated sentiment in the modern era of globalization – constitute “a valid and solid stance of protest art in the Philippines ”.
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