Carlo Gabuco

Visual artist Carlo Gabuco weaves popular icons such as the Apple, the Big Mac, and Mickey Mouse into his oil images, showing how every Juan digests or turns away from the influences of the every day.

Casa San Miguel’s artist-in-residence, Gabuco labors over his masterpieces amid the ambient sound of violins playing Pachelbel’s “Canon” and Vivaldi’s “Summer” at the Zambales farm where acclaimed violinist Coke Bolipata holds music classes twice weekly.

A finalist in last year’s Philip Morris Arts Competition and the 2002 Metrobank Young Painters Annual Arts Competition, Gabuco expects to complete 12 paintings by October for his first solo show.

Carlo’s “Click on You,” among the artworks exhibited in this summer’s Pundaquit Festival, is a social commentary on how information overload makes us forget the things that really matter.

In the oil painting, the national hero Jose Rizal’s pixelated face juxtaposed with one of Rizal’s Spanish poems torn off from an old textbook speaks volumes, says Gabuco, on how the younger generations have forgotten their roots.

Aside from the Casa San Miguel’s Siemens Hall, Gabuco has previously exhibited with Boston Gallery and Kulay Diwa. This month, he just completed a two-man show, “Second-Hand Smoke,” with Christopher Zamora at the CCP Gallery.

As Casa San Miguel’s resident teacher, Carlo holds art classes for the local Zambalenos, including the children of Aetas and farmers at the Total Rural Development Foundation in Iba.

August 30, 2007 | Posted by Karla Maquiling

Kulay-Diwa  is a venue for Philippines and Southeast Asian Contemporary Art. Inaugurated on February 7, 1987, Kulay-Diwa, is strategically located within a cluster of communities South of Manila.  It has five independent exhibition areas able to accommodate large-scale works and a garden ideal for programs, performances and sculpture installations.  The goal of the gallery is to discover and promote the works of young, talented but deserving Filipino Artists and to foster cultural interaction and exchanges with the local regions and other countries.

Kulay (Colour)

Diwa  (Spirit, Thought)

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