Tuslob-Buwa Artists Group presents 'Love Theories'

February with all its attached clichés is the month of love and will always be a time for loving. And SM Art Center's love offering will be a show on the art of loving by four local contemporary Cebuano artists. "Love Theories" by the artists' group "Tuslob-Buwa" will showcase four individual experiences on love. The four aspects will dwell on love-lust, love-lists, love-lost, and love lasts.

Full-time artist Evan Bejec's visual essay on love-list is a kind of New Year's wish list. Here he makes a presentation on love that he wants to happen, including his aspirations on what love means to him. His listings are personal ideals in the concrete form of both painting and sculpture.

Tackling love that's lost, abstract expressionist artist and U.P. Fine Arts professor Dennis 'Sio' Montera will provide a visual teaching instruction. These are thoughts and raw feelings represented by abstract ideas. Montera's works are often in a conceptual form and as non-figurative imagery depicted in multi-layered color field works. His works are profound appropriations of the artist's emotions from losing a special someone.

Jojo Sagayno is a member of the USC Fine Arts faculty and is the married member in the group. Hence, as a family man with two kids he explores the fulfillment of loving and being loved in return. Doing composite media works combined with painting as a signature in his art, he concentrates the Filipino's family-bound love for country and countrymen.

The lust for love is akin to lust for life and Ritchie Quijano believes that the ultimate purpose and reason for living is to love. Thereby, as an artist, he sees it of paramount importance to express it in art. The heart being the universal symbol of love takes a prominent place in the series of artworks he made.

Full of personal symbolisms, "Love Theories" is a highly autobiographical sketch on love-related experiences that each of the four artists underwent. "Love Theories" is the second major exhibition to start the year by the "Tuslob-Buwa" Artists Group and will be unveiled at the SM Art Center starting on February 2 and to last until the whole world celebrates Valentines Day.

The group in addition has an ongoing exhibit titled "Alas-Cuatro" at the Bluewater Gallery at the Maribago Bluewater beach resort and runs until February 18. "Love Theories" is open to the public daily from 10a.m. to 9p.m. The Art Center is located at the 2nd Level of SM City Cebu (beside VECO). For inquiries on the show you can call 231-9851 or visit the group's art website at www.tuslob-buwa.com.