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Flashes of raw sienna and yellow ochre rip through the gray mists of Boundless, a solo exhibition introducing Isidro Diaz free coupon for viagra Santos toManila. Composed of three canvases, the show is a splendid triptych of swirling abstractions culled from the artist’s meandering mind. Moody and atmospheric, the works ofSantos evoke cosmic landscapes, http://generic-cialiscanadarx.com/ subterranean caverns, and dissections of bleeding wounds and entrails seen through a microscope.
The scale of these acrylic paintings allows one to be swallowed, enveloped, and consumed by mystery. An undercurrent of anxiety runs through Boundless. cialis and prostate enlargement This frisson of disquiet is a natural response to the unknown and alien. It is the artist’s intention to bombard his audience with as many images as possible in order to overwhelm and overload viewers until their vision tunnels. Confronted by an abundance of stimuli, the mind focuses on a feeling and makes unexpected connections. In his words, Santos aims for Mondrian-esque minimalism (that generic cialis is, a profusion of fragments so intimidating that it folds in upon itself and becomes a single organic entity).
A son cialis online pharmacy india of Angono, Rizal, Santos acknowledges his debt to Carlos “Botong” Francisco, muralist and National Artist credited with establishing a thriving creative practice in the said town. The connection between the two artists isn’t readily apparent in Boundless but Santos points out that Botong is seminal. Botong is the root. Botong is the chain that
links all Angono artists together. The National Artist’s influence is inevitable—whether because an Angono painter wishes to emulate him or escape him. The menacing clouds hovering in Botong’s darker murals inspired Santos’s use of color: his somber hues, pierced by occasional brilliance, dictate the cialis for sale online temperament of the exhibition.
Material and texture are two important aspects of Santos’s art. Trained in the export business of Angono, the artist worked with wood and carved carts, horses, dinosaurs, and other tchotchkes for a living. He also became adept at using glazes, which could cloak newly made objects with the patina of age. As part of his occupation, he had to learn the painterliness of Rembrandt, and the impasto techniques and broken brushstrokes favored by the Impressionists.
Equipped with all these skills, Santos is now concentrating on his own self-expression. Boundless is a title that refers to his imagination and to the number of possible interpretations engendered by his work. cialis 20mg for sale Guided by his subconscious, random memories, and the paintbrush in his hand, Santos allows his mind to instinctively wander all over the canvas. The results surprise even himself. Resting in the center of one canvas, the squished and unintended form of a dragonfly. In another, crochet-like bunches of red that manifest themselves like alveolar sacs hanging from bronchioles. In yet another, a swarm of fireflies made from daubs of flickering yellow.
Boundless is the accumulation of all the skillsSantos learned in the export business. Like haruspices, viewers are invited to sift through his images and divine meaning from the splotches and dribbles of paint, from the organic and otherworldly forms that rise from the surface of his canvases.—ll
Isidro Santos’ Boundless opens on Monday, July 25. 2011 at 6:00pm at Blanc Gallery, Unit 2E Crown Tower, 107 HV dela Costa St, Salcedo Village, Makati. For more information on the exhibit log-on to www.blanc.ph, e-mail us at info@blanc.ph or call/sms +63920-9276463
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