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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

Artist Exhibitions




One -Man Shows: "Bursting Mental Gas Tanks
Museo Iloilo, Philippines

"Critical Reactions, Reactionary Criticisms"
AWOL Gallery, Toronto
Ontario, Canada

Group Shows :
"KULTURA: Filipino Arts Festival"
Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts and Culture
167 Augusta Ave., Toronto, Ontario

"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...

Artist Publications



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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Artist 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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