Romulo Olazo:Diaphanous Anthuriums
Modern painters continue the tradition of culling inspiration from the beauty of nature. The natural world is clearly characterized by its precise linearity and formation, and for artists that are predisposed to a given sensitivity, this is evidence of transcendence, an indelible mark by a Higher Creator. This is no escaping the awe of how the physical world is create. It is the primary source of inspiration and contemplation, and of being.
Romulo Olazo has adapted the plant forms of the Anthurium into his abstract forms. He has expressed his wonderment of the anthurium flower, captivated by the line of its shape and silhouette of its leaf and suddenly, almost amusingly, of the pistil that advances without inhibition, even at the verge of welcomed embarrassment. The flower is poetic and symbolic, amusing and contrary, colourful and unabashed. It is a flower icon that has suited Olazo's temperament. Among the many species of the plant kingdom, the anthurium is one of a few Olazo has reacted to and found more than a bit of solace. Perhaps echoing the sentiments of the artists of the past that have seized the flower as windows to our souls, Olazo has found an equivalent form in the natural world that he cannot leave out in his pursuit of the abstract and non-representational.
In 1994, almost twenty years after establishing his private visual language and genre of Diaphanous paintings, the Diaphanous Anthuriums quietly came into being as pastel sketches, intricately done, produced during the drawing sessions with the Saturday Group of Artists at the Flower Farm in Tagaytay. Seeing its potency, Olazo translated the anthurium form unto his canvas paintings in small and large formats. To date, Olazo has produced around one hundred paintings in the series that have found their way in private collections.
SIGNIFICANT EXHIBITS: MILLENNIUM 2000
2000 Group show 2000 at the Luz Gallery
2011 Group show 2001 at the Luz Gallery
2002 Group show Drawings at the Luz Gallery
Recent Works (Ang Kiukok, Ben Francisco and Goy) at Finale Art File
2003 One-Man show, "Translucencies in Oil" Galleria Duemila
2006 Two-Man show, " Olazo & Olazo" (Father and Son) Galleria Duemila
2007 One-Man show, "Olazo 101", Art Center,Sm Megamall
Anniversary presentation of Renaissance Gallery
One-Man show, "Romulo Olazo: The Truth is Still in the Beautiful", Valentine Willie Art
in Kuala Lumpur, Malysia and Borobudur House in Jacarta, Indonesia2008 One-Man show, "AZOOL", Director's choice for the Year in ArtistSpace, Ayala Museum
Inaugural exhibit of Paseo Gallery-Glorietta2009 "ROMULO OLAZO A 40-Year Restrospective", Ayala Museum,
co-organized and presented by Paseo Gallery2010 Two-Man show, "OLAZO-ORLINA",ArtistSpace,Ayala Museum,
organized by Paseo Gallery2011 One-Man show, "UNTITLED XX", Paseo Gallery
2012 One-Man show, "DIAPHANOUS-ANTHURIUMS", ArtistSpace
Ayala Museum, organized by Paseo Gallery
No comments:
Post a Comment