*Majority of this article's content is taken from the exhibit's press release by the museum
Aaron Villamayor
Bautista, a member of the Neo-Angono Artists Collective, belongs to the third
generation of Angono artists whose artistic lineage traces back to the
religious-themed Juan Senson during the waning years of the Spanish period, the
murals and modernist works of Carlos ‘Botong’ Francisco, and figurative as well
as realist traditions of Jose ‘Pitok’ Blanco, Nemesio ‘Nemi’ Miranda Jr.,
Salvador Juban, Vicente Reyes, and Pepito Villaluz.
We see at Aaron’s
creative process the drip paintings of New York artist Jackson Pollock. Combining
the movement of his body as well as both controllable and uncontrollable
factors with the viscous flow of paint, the force of gravity, and the
absorption of paint, enamel, oil, and found objects into canvas, Aaron
dramatizes both conscious reclamation and recreation of his childhood past and
communal memory of his town and people.
Aaron’s works do not
only de-familiarize and abstract his town’s rustic scenes. He contributes and
constructs among these chaotic motions of pieces of what is, perhaps, Angono’s
abstract art in the age of threatened Laguna Lake and towering SM Center Angono
in the town where he found his faith life, and love.
The artworks will be on
display until December 7 – January 7, 2015. For more details, you may contact
8260574. Admission is free.
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