EXHIBITED WORKS
Tall Gallery, Warehouse 17, La Fuerza Compound

Siete de Agosto: Allegory of a Farce
by Romulo Galicano

June 7 - 25, 2010

POSTMORTEM
Tracing the Death of Integrity through Siete de Agosto: Allegory of a Farce

Après nous, le Déluge
After us, (comes) the Flood Madame du Pompadour

Romulo Galicano’s latest Gesamkunstwerk tackles a timely event in Philippine cultural and social life. Siete de Agosto: Allegory of a Farce is an elegant critique of the death of integrity in the process of determining the National Artist Awards (NAA) due to executive interference, and symbolized by the demonstration of the art community in front of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) on August 7, 2009. It is this event that Galicano has magisterially captured in allegorical form that captures both the pathos and farcical vanity in search for artistic nobility that haunts the system and its players today.

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