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2001 Metrobank
Art and Design Excellence (MADE) |
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Oil-based
Media on Canvas Category
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Critique composed
by renowned artist and art historian
Dr. Rod Paras-Perez |
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First Prize, “Constancita”
Ms. Lea Zoraina S. Lim
Constancita is a multi-level image-play:
an ode to innocence that can fly,
dream-kites anywhere; the transience
of youth and play rendered with
childlike strokes, transparent and
de-materialized against the
adult-made walls that also somehow
contained every aspiration; a
reality-unreality mix, commenting –
lightly, but no less biting – on the
prison-like drabness of urban living
dreaming of childhood rural
pleasures, like – flying a kite. Lim
aspires to “address issues on the
multiple truths of reality”, and she
does. |
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Second Prize, “For Western
Inspection and Consumption Only:
Stereotyped Curio?”
Mr. Benjamin D. Elayda
For Western Inspection and Consumption
Only: Stereotyped Curio? In spite of
its dissertation-like title, the
artwork’s main motif is the most
common facet in a highly commodified
society: bar codes for the worth of
every consumer’s item. However, the
artist was able to imbue his
ubiquitous motif with a context that
focuses on “asymmetrical power
relations…e.g. between east and
west…which exoticise non-western
culture…” thus, elevating a banal
motif to the level of a serious
visual discourse. |
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Third Prize, “Anino ni Ama”
Mr. Renato Guerrero Z. Habulan
Anino ni Ama re-examines the relationship
between a child and the church. The
most traditional in both artisanship
and imagery among the top awardees,
Habulan none the less achieves an
air of poetry in his handling of
lights and darks as well as a sense
of surprise: light emanates from the
child rather than the church. |
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Watercolor Media on Paper
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First Prize, “Realidad”
Mr. Richard I. Venancio
Realidad speaks of a world made unreal by
glowing low-key colors, while
lodestars like Sanso and Legaspi
hovers in his mind. In his hands
water color learns to play charade
with itself. |
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Second Prize, “Alab ng Puso…(sana)
sa dibdib mo’y buhay”
Mr. Dominador A. Pamisa
Alab ng Puso…(sana) sa dibdib mo’y buhay
indicates hyperanimated figures
against a glowing ground that
somehow move in intense rhythmic
gestures evoking a world at once
abstract and real. |
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Third Prize, “Steel Life”
Mr. Samuel R. Penaso
Steel Life playfully pokes fun on the
word still life to indicate, with
articulate technical panache, a
fragile walled-world barred by
steel. A visual parable from the
realm of the ordinary? |
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go to program:
Metrobank
Art and Design Excellence (MADE) |
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other awardees from year: |
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