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Monday, April 24, 2006
All Embracing Eye
By Ritchie Landis Doner Quijano
ONE of the great things about coming up with a debut solo exhibit is the bold catholicity and the freedom of choice in the part of the artist in showing a wide range of styles he has adopted and practiced over a period of years without the inhibitions of being boxed and classified. It is essential to show one’s versatility in execution, at being prolific in quantity as well as show the proficiency in quality in the various mediums and movements.
A first one-man show when surveyed will appear to be a retrospective composed of the early works to the most recent of creations. This atmosphere can easily be seen and felt in Jay Dalumpines’ “Talan-awon”, an art exhibit opening tonight at the lobby of Shangri-la Mactan Island Resort and Spa.
Jay, more popularly called Japs among his closest of friends can be considered a fresh artist on the gallery block. Though he may be new to the exhibition scene this guy from Cordova has been receiving citations as “Artist of the Year” all throughout his elementary and high school days.
Trained in the field of graphic art, his new-found freedom of expression through painting came only after college. He’s a product of the University of San Carlos Fine Arts majoring in advertising, batch of 1997. Currently he is working full-time in Shangri-la as a graphic artist finding his time painting in earnest only after work or after hours. To him painting liberates his artistry to a more potentially unlimited direction.
His extreme moodiness is a creative stimuli akin to a pendulum that swings him from conservative realism to modern abstraction. Just the way he likes it for according to him he wants to explore different styles and experiment on mediums. It is a healthy exercise and an outlet to release creative energies.
Prominently featured in his art works particularly his modernist paintings is the incorporation of the figure/object fixture of an eye. He says that the proverbial window of the soul is the most significant tool in appreciating a thing compared to tactility dili kamot. And he’s got this non-stop working attitude when he starts to paint and the eagerness to complete a piece instantly, since to him the continuity is important.
Thus he will never abandon a painting until he deems it done. This spontaneity captures his unbroken flow of thought and the mood of the moment. Jay’s exhibit will also feature the works of five streetchildren to whom he taught the rudiments of art. These kids are from “Batang Opon”, a foundation under Shangri-la’s patronage. Our vernacular for sights and scenes “Talan-awon” is a major presentation of Shangri-la as part of the hotel’s Philippine Food Festival celebration.
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