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Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Scenic Samboan’s Potential
By Ritchie Landis Doner Quijano
* An exhibit highlights the picturesque side of this southern town. Ritchie Landis Doner Quijano visits Samboan.
For the first time in Samboan’s history, the southern municipality hosted an art exhibit focusing on their tourism potentials on the occasion of the feast of the town’s patron, St. Michael the Archangel. Primarily, members of the Cebu Artists Inc. (cai) were given the task of painting Samboan’s scenic attractions and historical spots, but the group later on decided to open the exhibition to other artist-friends who were interested in joining the CAI crew, as it was also the thrust of the local government to search and discover aspiring local artists who are natives of the town. because of this open policy, a few artists outside the CAI circle were able to participate, like Kimsoy Yap and Luther Galicano of Kolor Sugbu, Methusael Carredo and myself. The exhibit was aptly called Pagkaplag Samboan. At the show we made new and interesting discoveries for, indeed, Samboan has proven to be home to many unschooled painters whom we had not met nor knew in the past. These local talents were brought in through the encouragement of a French expatriate artist Fabrice Deveaux who employs the painters in his handicrafts and souvenir export business. Among those I can remember is Adonis Bilocura partly because he is an excellent cook. On show were on-the-spot paintings and studio works by Celso Pepito, Jun Impas, Adeste Deguilmo, Fe Madrid, Sonia Yrastorza and Benji Goyha, all belonging to CAI. The good thing about exhibiting in far-flung provincial settings is the art education that is imparted to the local populace. Sales aside, the most important thing we left as contribution to the fiesta celebration was to show the people how to appreciate art. I wasn’t expecting brisk sales, so prior to the exhibit was the self-conditioning of the mind that selling a painting isn’t the real target, rather, it is in sharing a God-given talent. The painters orient the locals on the preciosity of art and, of course, have fun.
(January 19, 2005 issue)
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