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ABOUT THE WORK

Romulo Olazo’s most-celebrated oeuvre, his Diaphanous series, shows the late painter and printmaker’s focus in pushing the limits of different materials and artistic processes. As he produced Diaphanous works in which one is introduced to monumental spatial complexities, his fluency in the sinuousness of his forms and shapes sharpened to perfection. “I am continuously concerned with the quality of materials I work on,” he states, “to achieve an overall effect of mystery, mood and contemplation.” These works show thin layers of pigment producing translucent forms that overlap in genius delicateness and ephemerality. The black background in Diaphanous No. 833 asserts the presence of the gossamer, gauze-like transparent presences forming a round form with a hollow center, evoking a sense of illumination and solemnity. Effects of light and texture are also achieved in this elegant masterpiece coming from a master of rendering geometric abstract forms.