RUBIO TO PREMIERE SINGAPORE EXHIBITS FOR 2007
"Early Times" Opens Friday, January 26, 2007 at Galerie Joaquin Singapore
Artist Dominic Rubio, founding member of the 40-strong Guevarra Group of Artists spearheads the 2007 calendar of exhibits of Galerie Joaquin Singapore.
Slated for Friday, January 26, 2007 at 6:00 PM, Rubio opens his "Early Times" (Noong Unang Panahon) exhibit at Galerie Joaquin Singapore. The show features 24 of Rubio's current works inspired by Spanish Colonial Philippines. "It is a great honor for me to be invited to start the Year 2007 art season for the gallery in Singapore." Other shows slated for Year 2007 at Galerie Joaquin Singapore include shows by Juvenal Sanso, Mario Parial, Lydia Velasco and Carlo Magno.
Galerie Joaquin Singapore is located at The Regent Hotel, 1 Cuscaden Road, Ground Floor, Unit 3, Singapore 249715. Tel. (65) 67253113.
A graduate of the University of Sto. Tomas, College of Fine Arts, Rubio has been painting for almost two decades now. He was a member of the Blumentrit Group of Artists since the mid 90's. In 2002, together with Gig de Pio, Jerry Morada, Bayani Ray Acala and Edwin Tres Reyes, he founded the Guevarra Group of Artists, one of Manila's leading contemporary art groups whose members continue to chalk in major achievements.
Dominic Rubio was born in Paete, Laguna, Philippines, a lakeshore town long famous for its artistic and woodcarving tradition. He studied at the University of Santo Tomas College of Fine Arts, major in commercial arts. He first worked briefly in the creative department of one of the largest multi-national advertising agencies in the country, Puris Lintas of Manila. Later, he was invited to live and work in the Pearl Farm, an upscale resort located in Davao del Sur. It was in the course of his part-time job as in-house artist that he found time to travel around the Caraga Region in Northern Mindanao, learning about the various cultural groups and ethnic minorities in these places such as the Mandaya and the Tiboli tribes. He also lived, during this period, with the Bilaans and the Badjaos, who live in the south of Mindanao.
Rubio first exhibited his works at the Ad Infinitum Galleries, delving on the subject of women, the mother and child and the ethnic Filipina as depicted in her day-to-day chores amid the surrounding landscape. A major show in 2003 at the Galerie Joaquin Main came next which saw the artist explore his favored subject of Filipino women in the context of an evolving sensibility as shown in the figures and faces from an earlier period at the turn of the century as well as a suite of updated portraits replete with glamour from the distaff side. The artist likewise had realistic portraits of young girls, depicting faces and figures from the same period and milieu, the quintessential symbol of innocence and naivete at a time of sociopolitical changes.
Challenged by the possibilities of the subject he has pursued, Rubio has in the process developed a new and highly contemporary style which he will now unveil in Singapore to capture the essence of womanhood and the gentility of a race whose identity has been long defined even before the advent of colonization. Rubio, much like his subject, is constantly evolving and has now come into his own, his transformation as finely articulated as these recent figures in his adjoining landscapes. |
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Datu (Sultan)
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To Market
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Early Times
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Ginoo at Ginang
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Trip to the City
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Lunes ng Umaga
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Milk Vendor
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Katipunero
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Sabungero II
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