Strength
December 1, 2002
When search and discovery of ones capability proves successful and a complementing gift innate, we find that strength is made. Thus as we move with this kind of strength we grow to be our potentials and the best that we can be.
On a Sunday of the first December of 2002, I found myself viewing a series of works on paper with the intention of writing something or anything about them for the friend artist. A double whammy for a struggling writer’s integrity and if one is to be critical about it, I probably should not write as friendships might suffer and a writer’s credibility a factor to ail. Period.
Yet, the opportunity is right as we have very few enough writers around and with perhaps their mission of academic paper trails or monetary compensations one loses taste for the nuances and essences of having read about an artist or known about his works. I am writing to try and explain what one artist, young for age, has opened for his audiences because I think the show hold promise and strength.
I was trying to assimilate and go through the motions of looking for the right and apt execution as I would if I could paint these artworks. Hardly fair right? Yet, one should know the appropriate semiotics , memetic aptness and clarity of thematic pursuit. I borrowed that from Alice Guillermo’s Kultura. Hehehehehehe!
I’m digressing so let start with the venue. The works are shown at the Kulay Diwa Galleries, newly reopened exhibiting spaces located at 25 Lopez Village, Lopez Ave., Sucat, Parañaque City and aimed at promoting young artists and established ones on even terms. A gallery with a vision. Great. With the good spaced walls the works were efficiently designed and lighted. Now to the artist…
Don Salubayba is a Fine Arts graduate and on his second one man exhibit. The show is titled “PorTraits” drawn on 20 regular size paper. With an artist skill and precision, the artist lends us his visual semiotics on idiosyncrasies that rise from emulsified hand made paper which is also a good decision because they lend a more natural and earthly state for the works. The imagery were elemental-like icons assuming innate earthly characteristics. He paints them with varied mediums like a surgeon exposing anatomical details. But instead of organs and tissues one marvels at an assortment of collections emerging from chasms and cavities of flesh. Detached yet impressionable characters seem to watch the viewers.
Because of often brutal imageries around us in media, most audiences finds in art solace. Yet in these works, Don Salubayba presents the ether world of numbing senses. The stillness of transitions as voyeurish curiosities rule more in these severed portraits that seem more undead. A created macabre tension on unfinished yet finite facial expressions that unnerve more than consoles. If these were people they would all oppugn the desecration in every one of the imageries. Yet, intent to expose hidden traits was very evident and one only finds oneself enthralled. “PorTraits”is very apt for the show. These are dark personalities that hides more than what the artists want to show and yet, suggesting what the media and the dailies revel for captive Filipino audiences. He is more successful than most artists in this series as one could also bring to mind integrity, competence and consistency.
The exhibit runs until December 31, 2002 and for those avoiding the holiday spirit “PorTraits” at Kulay Diwa Galleries would likely make you forget.
December 1, 2002
Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
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www.amiel-roldan.tk
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www.amielaceremoroldan.tk
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www.amielroldan.wordpress.com
www.amielroldan.blogspot.com
www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/a-g-roldan.html
www.myspace.com/amiel_roldan
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When search and discovery of ones capability proves successful and a complementing gift innate, we find that strength is made. Thus as we move with this kind of strength we grow to be our potentials and the best that we can be.
On a Sunday of the first December of 2002, I found myself viewing a series of works on paper with the intention of writing something or anything about them for the friend artist. A double whammy for a struggling writer’s integrity and if one is to be critical about it, I probably should not write as friendships might suffer and a writer’s credibility a factor to ail. Period.
Yet, the opportunity is right as we have very few enough writers around and with perhaps their mission of academic paper trails or monetary compensations one loses taste for the nuances and essences of having read about an artist or known about his works. I am writing to try and explain what one artist, young for age, has opened for his audiences because I think the show hold promise and strength.
I was trying to assimilate and go through the motions of looking for the right and apt execution as I would if I could paint these artworks. Hardly fair right? Yet, one should know the appropriate semiotics , memetic aptness and clarity of thematic pursuit. I borrowed that from Alice Guillermo’s Kultura. Hehehehehehe!
I’m digressing so let start with the venue. The works are shown at the Kulay Diwa Galleries, newly reopened exhibiting spaces located at 25 Lopez Village, Lopez Ave., Sucat, Parañaque City and aimed at promoting young artists and established ones on even terms. A gallery with a vision. Great. With the good spaced walls the works were efficiently designed and lighted. Now to the artist…
Don Salubayba is a Fine Arts graduate and on his second one man exhibit. The show is titled “PorTraits” drawn on 20 regular size paper. With an artist skill and precision, the artist lends us his visual semiotics on idiosyncrasies that rise from emulsified hand made paper which is also a good decision because they lend a more natural and earthly state for the works. The imagery were elemental-like icons assuming innate earthly characteristics. He paints them with varied mediums like a surgeon exposing anatomical details. But instead of organs and tissues one marvels at an assortment of collections emerging from chasms and cavities of flesh. Detached yet impressionable characters seem to watch the viewers.
Because of often brutal imageries around us in media, most audiences finds in art solace. Yet in these works, Don Salubayba presents the ether world of numbing senses. The stillness of transitions as voyeurish curiosities rule more in these severed portraits that seem more undead. A created macabre tension on unfinished yet finite facial expressions that unnerve more than consoles. If these were people they would all oppugn the desecration in every one of the imageries. Yet, intent to expose hidden traits was very evident and one only finds oneself enthralled. “PorTraits”is very apt for the show. These are dark personalities that hides more than what the artists want to show and yet, suggesting what the media and the dailies revel for captive Filipino audiences. He is more successful than most artists in this series as one could also bring to mind integrity, competence and consistency.
The exhibit runs until December 31, 2002 and for those avoiding the holiday spirit “PorTraits” at Kulay Diwa Galleries would likely make you forget.
December 1, 2002
Amiel Gerald A. Roldan™
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
*** visit me at
www.amiel-roldan.tk
www.amielroldan.tk
www.amielaceremoroldan.tk
at my blogs:
www.amielroldan.wordpress.com
www.amielroldan.blogspot.com
www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/a-g-roldan.html
www.myspace.com/amiel_roldan
www.amiel_roldan.multiply.com
www.face-pic.com/amiel_roldan
please comment and tag if you like my compilations.
amiel_roldan@yahoo.com
amiel.roldan@gmail.com
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