Michael Cacnio’s collaborative sculptures at Power Plant
MANILA, Philippines - In his recent show titled “Framed” at Rockwell Power Plant Mall, renowned sculptor Michael Cacnio integrated original works by National Artist Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, Presidential Medal of Merit awardee Juvenal Sanso and masters Dominic Rubio and Angel Cacnio into his own sculptures.
The resultant artwork becomes a collaboration of sorts, Cacnio carefully ensuring that these “artists-at-work” sculptures highlight both his and the collaborating artists’ work. Having mounted over 50 solo exhibitions in the US, Europe, the Philippines and other parts of Asia, Cacnio’s candid depictions of the tableaux scenes of Philippine genre has been noted by critics as representing the best of genre in sculptural form. “Framed” is part of the series of exhibits at the Power Plant Mall in cooperation with Galerie Joaquin as part of the project “Celebrating Filipino Art.”
The South Court also recently held a two-man exhibition featuring works by metal sculptor Ram Mallari and hand-carved wooden sculptures by contemporary artist Jerry Morada.
Ram Mallari is known for using metal and found objects to create works that reference popular culture, history and historical conflicts. His “Steamtrooper,” for instance, uses a contemporary artist’s aesthetic to portray a bust of a Stormtrooper from the Star Wars films of George Lucas.
Jerry Morada, on the other hand, lends a subtle hand to his practice that articulates full robust figures in human anatomy doing ballet, cradling a baby, sumo wrestling or playing the saxophone, in mahogany and yakal wood, varnished, and painted in wonderful earth tones.
Simultaneous to this, at the basement concourse, was the continuation of an exhibition of works by noted landscape painters Caress Banson, Rudolf Gonzalez, Antonio Daleon, Karina Baluyut and Isabel Campa that showcases the subtleties and wonders of Philippine seascapes and landscapes.
For information, call Galerie Joaquin at 723-9418 or email info@galeriejoaquin.com.
