This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by Mr. NIxxio Castrillo confirming the authenticity of this lot

ABOUT THE WORK

An exquisite crossbreed of a blacksmith and a sculptor, Eduardo Castrillo led a renaissance of sculpture in the Philippines. Aware of his social responsibility, he produced a body of work that are reflections of an artist caught between an era of his country’s search for its true self while still relying on his own ingenuity. Solid metal—that is, the chief medium of Castrillo’s immaculately crafted sculptures—embodies the uncanny skill and talent of the artist. His workshop was nothing short of a beehive of activity, wherein he studied his medium in their variant behavior and exploited it with a burst of energy, resulting in a wondrous output of metalwork. The paradoxical description of Castrillo’s works as being simple yet complicated is unpretentious flattery of how the master himself uncomplicatedly created labyrinthian masterpieces using modest geometric figures.