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Artist Exhibitions:
Pundasyong Kasilonawan ng
Obando (PUKAO)
-Foundation for Arts of Obando
Cultural Art Festival
Date: March 7-9, 2008
Venue: Obando Town Plaza,
Obando, Bulacan. PHILIPPINES.
Featuring: Mural Paintings,
Art Works, Body Paintings,
Live Bands, and many more.
Hiyas Museum Art Exhibition
Theme: The 4th Sorrowful
Mystery
Date: March 11, 2008
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Artist Statement for Jo Mari Montesa
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Of all the gifts God gave to man the finest is his free will. Second to life itself. It is the essence of man. It is what separates man from all the other creatures of God. By ones choice or action he is judged if he is worthy to be called the man created by God.
The child of free will is art. It is man's self-expression. It is synonymous to freedom of expression. Every art is unique since every man is unique. How man perceives art is also unique as how man perceives beauty. As how man perceive life.
Art is like life. It all depends to the person's perception. Truly beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. The gauge of how beautiful life is, depends uniquely to every man.
A professor of mine once walked in the streets of Manila during summer. It is very hot, humid and dusty. He noticed a very old beggar asking for coins to the passers while bathing to the heat of the sun all day. Beside the beggar was a newspaper stand. One tabloid headline reads 'Young Matinee Idol Commits Suicide." My professor stops for awhile and asks himself how could this young man kill himself when he has everything. Money, women, good looks, popularity, youthfulness, what more could he ask for. While this old beggar is still striving for a few coins. Why not just threw himself to the vehicles speeding in front of him. Like my professor, my conclusion too is that it's all a matter of perception.
Like life the beauty of art depends solely to the individual. It is how man perceives art that makes it beautiful.
Those who believe that they found the beauty in life. Let as show that beauty to the world. Let as show our art.
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