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Artist Statement:
"Eric Garingalao is one of
the new breed of Ilonggo
artists whose art embraces the
"absolute individualism"
dogma. His works are devoid of
pretensions. He perceives art
as an honest personal
conveyance without adversities
and
distractions from the outside.
Experimenting on various
mediums, he transforms the
mundane into an interesting
permutation of genres that
deals with the restlessness of
the body and the concepts and
revolutions of the mind. His
collages and abstract
orchestrations are
re-inscriptions of
themes into new context
manifesting gestural languages
that
shocks and provokes but are
seductively intimate to the
modern eyes.
by: Ric Gindap...
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Artist Exhibitions:
One -Man Shows: "Bursting
Mental Gas Tanks
Museo Iloilo,
Philippines
"Critical
Reactions, Reactionary
Criticisms"
AWOL Gallery,
Toronto
Ontario,
Canada
Group Shows : "Building
Bubbles"
Museo Iloilo,
Philippines
"Pananaw"
Vargas Museum
Manila,
Philippines
Australian
Centre
Manila,
Philippines
National
Commission for the Culture and
Arts
Manila,
Philippines
"Juried Show"
Humber
College
Toronto,
Canada...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
National Commission for the
Culture and Arts, Manila
Philippines
Mr.Graham-Maitland
Smith-Furniture Designs, UK
Far East Bank and Trust
Company, Manila Philippines
Mr. Zafiro Ledesma
II-Curator,Museo Iloilo,
Philippines
Dr. Christie Garcia, New York,
NY USA
Mr Alberto Abellana-Private
art collector and gallery
owner, Manila Philippines...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Reviews for Eric Garingalao:
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From: Jeannie Javelosa-Art Critic, The Manila Times and various other Philippine publications
"Caught in a World Warp" is Eric Garingalao's atlas of the world----a sophisticated and thought-of composition that philosophically states man's puny size in this universe. Materials like wood,cement and metal encompasses the work. Meanwhile the map made of fragile paper sits like a veil in the center of the composition."
From: Ric Gindap-Art Critic, The Panay News and other publications
"Eric Garingalao is one of the new breed of Ilonggo artists whose art embraces the "absolute individualism" dogma. His works are devoid of pretensions. He perceives art as an honest personal conveyance without adversities and distractions from the outside. Experimenting on various mediums, he transforms the mundane into an interesting permutation of genres that deals with the restlessness of the body and the concepts and revolutions of the mind. His collages and abstract orchestrations are re-inscriptions of themes into new context manifesting gestural languages that shocks and provokes but are seductively intimate to the modern eyes.
From: Reuben Ramas Canete-Art Critic, Manila Philippines
"The first images of his work were a gloomy, dark and viciously painted figures chained and pierced with stakes, carrying crowbars, grimacing and shouting silent cries. Channeling productive work by exercising negative energies, and pouring these onto a form of creative output, so that positive energies may permeate.
Re-using all materials from chicken wire taken from demolished coops next door, tattered jeans, and even the old crib of his daughter, Jami, Eric's next works all display the hallmark of personal appropriation of obsessive compulsion, one that is mitigated by his jealous regard for them as his children. By experimenting with conceptual forms, Eric approached art as pure entity, unpolluted by commercial considerations and socialite effeteness. Now concentrating on large-scale paintings, Eric admires artists who were not formally art educated, and do not get paid but make it their way of life. In other words the kind of art that we might call selfless."
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