The exhibit featured Téqui’s works from the 1980s to early 2000. Titles of some of her masterpieces are: Tropical Baroque (1983, engraving on copper), Sudarium (1984, etching/viscosity colour printing), St. Ofelia (1984, etching/viscosity colour printing), Detail from the Sta. Ofelia Cycle (1985, etching/viscosity colour printing), Where Why How (1995, acrylic on rag paper), Ode (1996, acrylic on linen), Visions of a Bodhisattva (1999, acrylic on canvass), Visions of a Bodhisattva (2000, etching/viscosity colour printing), and Talk to Me (2004, collage).
The artist said her paintings and prints “deal with allegories of bad and good governments, their repercussions on the common people and related themes relevant today, Biblical scenes transposed in the Philippine setting, as well as my Estampita prints.”
Write-up from Asia Research News