Geronimo Cristobal

Category: Paintings

  • Romero Barragan: Beyond Representation

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    Traces of the everyday On the surface of the series Destinations, a red line on the black-and-white copy of a city map runs through several streets on the bottom right. Which city is it? Is this the documentation of a mental walk or was the path actually taken? If yes, in a rush or during a leisurely…

  • Borlonganesque

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    Elmer Borlongan’s Extraordinary Eye for the Ordinary Elmer Borlongan’s mid-career retrospective held on his 50th birthday at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila establishes him as the essential post-EDSA artist: an artist painting in the veristic sociocritical vein of the 90s, but who, with the downfall of the Marcoses, finds himself with no one to rebel…

  • La Mujer Filipina allegedly by Felix Hidalgo

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    Some doubts have been casts on the authenticity of a Felix Hidalgo painting which was sold by auction recently. FÉLIX RESURRECCIÓN HIDALGO Y PADILLA (Filipinas, 1855 – España, 1913). “Nativa Filipina”. Óleo sobre lienzo. The most common misgivings are that the painting did not seem to conform to the fashion style of the period when…

  • Laura Owens at the Whitney Museum

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    There are manifold levels in the work of the American artist Laura Owens. For more than twenty years, the 47-year-old has been experimenting with the genre of painting, always with a claim to explore what is visually and creatively possible, to transcend the boundaries of the known, both in form and in content. Laura Owens…

  • Manton de Manila

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    The mantón de Manila became one of the most recognizable textiles in nineteenth-century Spain, and Juan Luna’s Mujer con mantón de Manila (c. 1880s) offers a precise record of its material qualities and its use in urban fashion. The painting shows a woman standing outdoors, wrapped in a large silk embroidered shawl. Its cream ground,…

  • We have nothing to add to this world

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      Above: A folded photograph by Romero Barragan The story of Romero Barragan (1942–2014), an avant-gardist painter and sculptor who fell into obscurity after the Marcos regime, and his journey to redefine an artistic practice that sought to obliterate the divisions of life and art. One can perceive the 1980s in Philippine art as a…