10 CONTEMPORARY FILIPINO ARTIST

Name of the Artist: Ernest Concepcion

Name of the artwork: OMG Christ
Message of the Artwork: To the Philippines-born Concepcion, OMG Christ depicts the juxtaposition of the
nostalgic, religious references of his childhood and the pop-art culture he has been exposed to since his
adolescent years.
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Name of the Artist: Ronald Ventura

Name of the Artwork: Waves
Message of the Artwork: Inspired by the Philippine pre-colonial artefact Manunggul Jar, “Waves” alludes to
the competing forces at play in contemporary life, the push and pulls in migration, and the struggles that
relocation bring forth amid the bigger challenge to survive and keep afloat.
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Name of the Artist: Leeroy New

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Name of the Artist: Oscar Villamiel

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Name of the Artist: Dex Fernandez
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Name of the Artist: Neil Pasilan

Name of the Artwork: BEAUTIFUL SUNRISE TO SUNSET
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Name of the Artist: Kawayan de Guia

Name of the Artwork: Bomba
Message of the Artwork: Based in Baguio City, Kawayan de Guia’s Bomba (Fall Out) (2015) was included in
The Vexed Contemporary, shown at MCAD in 2015. Part of de Guia’s bomb series which was inspired by a
friend’s discovery of WW II bombs in the mountains of Benguet and Ifugao, De Guia retells this story by
using the homonym, “bomba”, as a cheeky play on both the explosive weaponry and the 70s softcore films.
His works are part of several private collections, and the first iteration of “Bomba” is included in the
Singapore Museum Collection. He was a recipient of the Ateneo Art Awards in 2008 and 2011.
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Name of the Artist: Patricia Perez Eustaquio

Name of the Artwork: Figure Babel
Message of the Artwork: Known for her works that span across different mediums and disciplines—from
paintings, drawings, and sculptures, to the fields of fashion, décor, and craft—Patricia Perez Eustaquio (b.
1977) reconciles these intermediary forms through her constant exploration of notions that surround the
integrity of appearances and the vanity of objects. Images of detritus, carcasses, and decay are embedded
into the handiwork of design, craft, and fashion, while merging the disparate qualities of the maligned and
marginalized with the celebrated and desired. From her ornately shaped canvases to sculptures shrouded
by fabric, their arrival as fragments, shadows, or memories, according to Eustaquio, underline their
aspirations, their vanity, this 'desire to be desired.' Her wrought objects—ranging from furniture, textile,
brass, and glasswork in manufactured environments—likewise demonstrate these contrasting sensibilities
and provide commentary on the mutability of our perception, as well as on the constructs of desirability
and how it influences life and culture in general.
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Name of the Artist: Martha Atienza
Name of the Artwork: Gilubong Ang Akong Pusod Sa Dagat
Message of the Artwork: Atienza's quest to tell this story of seafarers, fishermen and community members
is deeply rooted. Having a Filipino sea captain as a father, a Dutch mother with strong philanthropist
inclinations and growing up in both the Netherlands and the Philippines where she was surrounded by
seafarers, it was only a matter of time that this project would come into existence.She sees a peculiar
similarity between all of the Filipino seafarers and her father who himself was a sea captain. She observes
that "it seems that once these men come home they do not share many stories. Many things, it seems, get
lost in translation and many things are not spoken about."
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Name of the Artist: Elmer Borlongan

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