Olazo Nudes: The Secret Body of Abstraction at BenCab Museum

Sepia Gallery, BenCab Museum
June 8 to July 7 2024

If one sees the more acknowledged abstract works of Olazo as attempts in embodying pure form, that is, a glance into the spiritual, this exhibit clarifies that the spiritual is also seen in the portrayal of the densest of forms - the human figure, specifically, the female figure.

​There is an innate purpose existing in the ethos of survival, a discovery in linking permanence and transience in lineage and continuity.  Shown in different angles, with different mediums, and different qualities of rendering, one sees that the artist is a pilgrim, an adventurer, a navigator of constraints.

​- Excerpt from the exhibition catalog by Janine Dimaranan

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