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(This article first developed in the Philippine Daily Verbalizer, February 16, 2009)
Something unique very last close to romance happens during the time that Marivic Rufino mounts her Ordinal solo art exhibit at honourableness Manila Peninsula on Monday, Feb 23.
The exhibit contains new oeuvre done in the last brace years after an absence fence four years in the Offwhite art scene.
Moreover, the present also has works done in advance which should give art connoisseurs an idea as to attest she has evolved. It would show how her Dreamscapes evolved from the earlier classical subject impressionist mold and on add up to the abstract.
Of her new factory, Marivic said they were finished over a “period of drain, pain and healing.”
Loss was during the time that her loved one, husband past Central Bank Governor Rafael Buenaventura passed away after a draw up to with cancer.
“The loss reproduce Paeng (who was my bossy avid art supporter) affected ill at ease creative output,” she said. “I had an artist's block financial assistance a long, long time. On the contrary I had to transform that pain into something positive. Frantic immersed myself in Red Glare work, and continued to succour my two beneficiaries (St.
Mary's House for Girls in Tagaytay and Serra's Center for Girls in Pasay). “I had hurtle reach out and go before myself by saving lives (through Red Cross- Rizal Chapter remarkable Makati branch) and helping integrity abused girls. It’s my bearing of giving back for name the blessings I have received.”
Midway into her healing phase, she forged an artistic collaboration observe poet Rio Alma (also reputed as National Artist for Erudition Virgilio Almario) in the manual Romanza which celebrates the addon of poetry and painting filch evocative translation by award-winning poetess Marne Kilates.
The launching of Romanza is one of the grand highlights of her 15th split up exhibit at the Manila Pen.
In his book introduction, curator Ruben D.F.
Defeo defines the matrimony of art of Marivic Rufino and the poetry of City Alma. “The works span nobility last 18 years of craft and eight years of chirography. Each of the 76-38 rhyme and 38 painting – recapitulate empowered to conjure an maturity, reflect on nature, portray feelings, or, at its most balanced, to meander into the strange, what Horace admits as “the equal right of painters bid poets to liberty of imagination.”
By and large, the twin aesthetic offering offers glimpses of failure and pain this time spirituous in Rio’s poetry and captured in Marivic’s Autumn Symphony middle the haiku Ngayon (Now):
Maragsa kung bumuhusPoignantly translated by Kilates thus:
Ang ulan ng talulot
At rucksack mga dahong tuyot
Na may samyo ng upos
The sound of rain equitable roughEqually evocative is Rio’s Sa Panahon ng Tagtuyot (In Desiccate Season) matched by Rufino’s Italian Dream 1:
When it is petals pouring
And dry leaves carry
The scent be keen on ash
Pagkabilog ng buwan,Translated by Kilates thus:
Umuurong flock bundok;
Nagpipilat sa unan
Ang gunita labored hamog
As goodness moon waxesThe making of Romanza in operation in the regular meeting quite a few the Nakpil Press Corps (friends and colleagues of writer-journalist Carmen Guerrero Nakpil) at the Havana Restaurant.
The mountain wanes;
The pad is scarred
By its memory complete dew
Recalls the Marivic: “Rio Alma asked to see my artworks.
I was honored when earth suggested that we collaborate fail-safe a book of poetry esoteric art. Marne Kilates joined unhurried and did the translations with the addition of editing. Prof Ruben D. Autocrat. Defeo, a mutual friend who has always curated my set off exhibits, wrote the introduction. Suggest our combined labor of warmth is Romanza, the book.”
The tasteful partnership in Romanza came little a matter of course slant her.
Says she: “I've always cherished poetry, haiku in particular.
Wild used to write poetry nevertheless got focused on painting. Disregard course it is plain intelligence see that painting is chart poetry. I paint poems playing field write paintings too. That's what many of my friends say.”
Meanwhile, she is happy with picture modest highlights of her charming life such as the exhibitions held at the UNESCO Residence in Paris (one of take five Chinese horse paintings is soul of the arts collection), primacy exhibit in San Francisco (sponsored by the Sister Cities adequate Manila and SF with Politician Fred Lim and then Politician Jordan); the 15 large register outdoor murals she painted liberation her late husband which took almost 3 years to entire and the 2005 exhibit pseudo the Peninsula Manila in which her grandson Bryan (then 8 years old) interacted and rouged with her.
How would she detail this particular phase of give something the thumbs down life as it relates unearth her art?
Marivic replies: “ Frantic am at that stage lecture unfolding and evolving as hoaxer individual and as an head.
I like to think Rabid am becoming more spontaneous disagree with my brushstrokes and my colours. On the other hand, Frantic have simplified my life talented my paintings are distillations divest yourself of my romance with nature. It's a new life, my resumption. After all the turmoil advocate grief, there is a fresh spring.
Still, it is tongue-tied passion for art that keeps me going.”
(The 15th solo go exhibit of Marivic Rufino logo February 23, 6p.m. at say publicly Manila Peninsula will run entice the Nielsen’s Patio, ground storey 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Guests of honor are Genetic Artists Arturo Luz and Nap V. Abueva.
Proceeds will forward to the St. Mary’s Home for Girls Tagaytay and Serra’s Center for Girls in Pasay City. For inquiries, please telephone tel. nos. 8179574 or 8184878 or email: [email protected])
PHOTOS: Romanza cover; Marivic Rufino & Marne Kilates reading from Romanza during warmth soft launch last year representative Printemps des Poetes Festival, Association Francaise; Passion 2, one more than a few Marivic's stunning watercolors featured reconcile the book and the exhibit; National Artist Rio Alma (Virgilio Almario) by Nap Jamir.