LARGE 8: SM holds biggest exhibit on Photo-Abstraction
Board Member Patrick Lacson, Edgardo
Lizares, Hester Jane Casing-Amigo and
Bacolod City Mayor Bing Leonardia
Someone once said, "Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give."
National artist BenCab with his
'Homage to Franz Kline'
This, in this essence, is the concept behind the exhibit which inspired SM Supermalls, 2GO - an Aboitiz company, Epson and the eight photographer-artists to give and share awareness and appreciation of photographic art around the country.
Jojo Guingona with wife
Josephine and kids Piko and
Pablo
The artists are Benedicto Cabrera or BenCab, the master of contemporary art and a national artist; Quincy Castillo, a 3-time Master Photographer of the Year Awardee of the Camera Club of the Philippines; Jojo Guingona, whose love affair with photography began 30 years ago, turned professional about 10 years ago as a result of a one-man show entitled, Sojourn;
Quincy Castillo with his
'Sensual Luminosity'
Wig Tysmans, a fine art photographer specializing in portraiture and figure studies who has produced books in various subjects such as Malacanang Palace, cockfighting, ethnic weave and tribal artifacts; Bien Bautista, Master Photographer Award 2001; Emil Davocol, a gifted photographer, illustrator, cartoonist, graphic designer; Pancho Escaler, Beauty & Glamour Photographer; and Jaime Zobel, chairman emeritus of Ayala Corporation, an avid photographer for the past 30 years and the the first Filipino amateur photographer to be conferred "Licentiate" by the Royal Photographic Society.
Wig Tysmans with his
'Fallen Angel'
What started as straight digital photographs have been enhanced by computer graphics using the unlimited power of the artists' creativity, fanned by their unending imagination.
Enigmatic Motion by
Jojo Guingona
From the Mall of Asia, this 2007 SM Roadshow moved to SM Megamall to SM City Baguio, SM City Clark, SM North Edsa the Block and SM City Davao last May 9-13.
Organic Manifestations by
Emil Davocol
In SM City Bacolod, the cocktail opening of Large 8 officially kicked off with a ribbon cutting by the Pillar of Bacolod Arts and Artists, Budot Lizares, Bacolod City Mayor Evelio R. Leonardia, Board Member Patrick Lacson, 3rd District of Neg. Occ. and SM Supermalls Marketing Manager for Visayas and Mindanao Hester Jane Casing-Amigo last June 4, 2007 a at the mall's north wing Event Center.
The region's biggest exhibit on Photo-Abstraction will move to SM City Cebu on July 6 to 12, 2007.