ABOUT THE WORK

Cuizon’s work took on the non-traditional direction with mixed media work and interactive assemblage. His work can be described as a subconscious application of a child’s play or how the artist visually reacted during his younger years. His approach starts with handling pictorial composition in a two-dimensional pictorial plane before it evolves into its final assemblage stage. Freeing the hand from the brush and utilizing it in other manual aspects of work led him to work with wood assemblages, which he composed in a structure of multi-frames that overlapped each other and accompanied with painted cut-out figures; thus, engaging the viewers to interact with the contents of his art pieces. His works were later referred to as interactive wood assemblages. Cuizon trained under the artistic tutelage of Ibarra dela Rosa, Angelito David, Paul Dimalanta, Renato Ong, Virgilio “Pandy” Aviado, Manuel “Boy” Rodriguez Jr., Lito Mayo, and Roberto Feleo. Informally and vicariously, Cuizon was also influenced by the social realists like Antipas “Biboy” Delotavo and Egai Talusan Fernandez, who were both graduates of PWU and, to a great degree, the late Santiago Bose. Having been exposed to contemporary art practice abroad in the 1990s strengthened Cuizon’s adherence to a more nationalistic content in his work or incorporating a particular universal issue in the Pinoy cultural context. This allowed him to translate his vision from an originally intended painting or assemblage to social installations or performance art, framing them in new modes of artistic expression to achieve a more effective way of visually communicating a concept.