Geronimo Cristobal

Tag: Romero Barragan

  • 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…

  • 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…