00000nam a22000004a 4500 UP-8027258850631494379 Buklod 20250117132002.0 m |o d | ta 240715s2015 ph a r c|||| u|eng d DCFA rda eng ND 1029 B67 L33 2015 Borlongan, Elmer artist Labyrinth of kinship Elmer Borlongan ; curated by Riel Hilario ; photography by Frances Eugenio. [Manila], Philippines Pasilyo Bookstore 2015 25 unnumbered pages illustrations (some color) 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier This catalogue is printed to concide with the Pinto Art Gallery exhibition "Labyrinth of Kinship" Like the source of its title, Filipino artist Elmer Borlongan's series, Labyrinth of kinship, is a depiction of random events that coalesce into vignettes of everyday life, forming a diverse picture that have the capacity to generate genealogies, epics and lived lives on their own accord and unfolding. The role of these chance encounters is central if not essential to the artist's aesthetic and methodology. Being a perennial flaneur since 1990's, Borlongan's "roving eye" captures his subjects from similar random encounters in the streets, working from mostly urban scenes of Manila to the provincial life of Zambales where he eventually moved his studio and domicile with his wife and fellow artist Plet Bolipata. The chance encounters beget serendipitous subjects. And as we can see in the collection of sketches that are part of the of the exhibition, such subjects are rendered into small drawings until they are transferred of rendered in a larger format of oil on canvas. It is in this latter stage and state does the image attain an iconic presence, a further testimony to the range of Borlongan's oeuvre. Thus the silent story of witnessing a shirtless man and his dog, seen from a roadside episode is finally retold in watercolor and then and then in an expansive nine feet long canvas titled Heredero. Not only is the scene magnified, but the whole experience of looking is ultimately reassembled as a spectacle, and then, as an artwork that speaks of territoriality. All streaming from one innocent and almost banal moment. Borlongan's vignettes take us to theater of everyday life in their barest appearances: the labyrinth of meanings endure, because the spirit does so well to do so. Borlongan, Elmer, 1967 Exhibitions. Painting, Philippine 20th century Exhibitions. Painting, Philippine 21st century Exhibitions. Hilario, Riel curator. Eugenio, Frances photographer. FI UPD DCFA ND 1029 B67 L33 2015 Book