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Nona Garcia, in her first one-woman exhibit in Baguio, presents ‘After Artists,’ that includes again portraits of 14 artists who impressed, taught, or studied along with her
Being nearsighted, I’ve skilled tapping the again of the shoulders of strangers who I believed have been mates.
Throughout the opening of the exhibit of Nona Garcia on the Victor Oteyza Group Artwork Area (VOCAS) final August 16, the kid of one of many artists referred to as on “Tito Kaw! Tito Kaw” at one of many 15 portraits exhibited there. By no means thoughts that Tito Kaw or Kawayan de Guia was exhibited shorter than he actually was and the black floral shirt he was sporting was nearly worn out.
Nona Garcia, in her first one-woman exhibit in Baguio, introduced “After Artists” composed of 14 artists who impressed, taught, or studied along with her.
They’re Robert Chabet, Kidlat Tahimik, Bencab, Alfredo Aquilizan, Kawayan de Guia, Louie Cordero, Patty Eustaquio, MM Yu, Geraldine Javier, Yasmin Sison-Ching, Poklong Anading, Jojo Legaspi, Maria Taniguchi and Gary Ross Pastrana.
They have been “again portraits” finished in oil on canvas paper. They’re dealing with a white wall, which may imply many issues – a clean canvas, the white sheet of colonialist photographer Dean Worcester, and even Gabriel Garcia’s firing squad wall. Nona Garcia had been doing “again portraits” up to now. She did a pair for her dad and mom. She additionally did a sequence of again work of a lady as she grew up each two years. Nona even did a again portrait of actor John Lloyd Cruz who attended the opening final Friday.
The 14 work have been finished nearly monochromatically, however Nona’s punctilious consideration to element makes them past photographic. Patty’s white linen shirt, for instance, was not painted as plain white. You possibly can see the creases and the stitches. You possibly can comply with the white hairs of the topics from the roots to the ends. If you flip across the faces, you’ll be able to’t see the frequent signifiers like facial expressions.
If you take away the background, you might be compelled to focus on their garments, the bumps on the pores and skin, the earlobes, and the highest finish of the cervical vertebrae. Nona Garcia is a really reserved one that doesn’t also have a Fb account. Hakaw, her pet pig, has way more followers on Instagram than her. Portray her topics from the again displays her reticence and her playfulness.
By naming her present, “After Artists,” she is trying behind them as a sort of homage. Even the topics are trying on the a part of themselves which they hardly noticed. The themes mailed their footage as a substitute of posing for them, aside from Chabet, a legendary UP Fantastic Arts trainer who was lengthy useless. Nona stated that she needed to work on one portrait for a couple of week every. BenCab had him sporting a camouflage vest however he can’t actually disappear in them. The best way he folded his arms made him acquainted to mates.
Kidlat submitted a photograph when his hair was nonetheless in dreads. These have been lower when he not too long ago went to Tibet however then who can’t mistake Kidlat Tahimik together with his distinctive wardrobe? For a few of these unfamiliar with the opposite artists, they must cope with the icon or the archetype.
Nona upped the guessing recreation by not figuring out who posed for these work in entrance of them. They’re compelled to search for verbal clues (the Rat Fink T-shirt can solely be Louie and the floral black shirt could possibly be somebody Chinese language) or Google for his or her faces. After which they develop into accustomed to their work as properly.
As such, the viewer is compelled to gaze longer and hope the artists will look again at them. – Rappler.com
‘After Artists’ will probably be on the VOCAS Gallery at Session Highway till the tip of September.
