Bozzetos

The contemporary art scene in the Philippines effuses a synergy of inventive images and intuitive ideas as espoused by young and established names in mainstream exhibition circuit. This accrual of incisive forays in fact is dizzying as it is engaging. Almost always, in the forefront of these pursuits are artists honed by and educated in the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (UPCFA), the oldest institution of higher learning in the country dedicated to the visual arts.

The exhibition entitled Bozzetos convincingly ranges this diversity.

The Vasari Hall of the Auditorium al Duomo in Florence, Italy is transformed to simulate a working bottega, where these artistic ramblings and murmurings take shape and form, and where these conceptual meanderings and conjecturings are earnestly given context and meaning.

Twenty-six Filipino artists have been invited to participate in the exhibition. They contribute each a series of works on paper, except for two paintings done on canvas by Lina Llaguno-Ciano, who for 42 years now, has called Rome her home.

Together, the works encapsulate individual pursuits that inform artistic styles such as personalized techniques in media application and serious explorations with industrial, nay heretofore non-conventional, materials to expand art making. Some works are executed in mixed media, while others involved image appropriations, mediation and even migration.