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Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Curious for curio
Ritchie Landis Doner Quijano meets an advocate of art “freeism”.
The 39-year-old painter Chicoy Romualdez may be a fresh presence in the local art community, but he’s not exactly a new kid on the block. He’s new in the sense that he has just revived his interest in the exhibition scene; and he may be considered a rookie since his name is still new to the community of Cebuano artists.
Chicoy’s artistic training goes back decades ago in the halls of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, having studied fine arts from 1986 to 1989.
While there, he was under noted art professors Nestor Vinluan and Roberto Defeo. Recently he made a splash at the Cebu Art Association (CAA) exhibit called Halad at the SM art center. And he was featured this month in another CAA show to commemorate the induction of its new set of officers for the year at the Casa Gorordo museum along Lopez Jaena st. in Parian.
Making a strong impression among his group, he will be installed as the art club’s new secretary. His works in oil are mainly representational, heavy on figures and still life objects but he insists on calling his ways and methods as “freeism”, because he is quite versatile in different styles and is fond also in making terra cotta potteries. Curios objects abound on his still life paintings. What captures his fancy are those that aren’t common day-to-day fixtures.
He paints the strange and rare, those that show the wear and tear of history.
He, too, has a penchant to use his finished pottery works as painting subjects.
(April 5, 2005 issue)
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