Accompanied by a certificate issued by The Drawing Room Contemporary Art and signed by the artist confirming the authenticity of this lot

Exhibited: : The Drawing Room, Memory Landscapes, Makati City, May 14 - June 14, 2010

Literature: : Elliott, David et al. Rodel Tapaya. DISTANZ Verlag. Berlin. 2015. p. 108

ABOUT THE WORK

From a raconteur that brings oral traditions to life, Rodel Tapaya has turned into a chronicler of countryside vistas in his A Windy Day and A Swirl as part of his Memory Landscapes exhibition. Tapaya moved away from his narrations of forgotten Philippine folk tales where he usually regales the viewers with fantastic creatures that people his narratives, this time, the viewers served as witnesses to the panorama that surrounds the artist’s Bulacan home. Tapaya’s figure flits through the painting like a ghostly apparition, like the misty shadows that dart through the viewer's consciousness as if we are in a dream. He painted the figure in hazy, blurry clumps of mostly white and gray, looking like pasted paper cutouts that belong to a different plane, but somehow blend into the landscape. Tapaya brought another facet to his creative works, an exciting iteration that drags us to come closer and scrutinizes the details indiscernible from the figure to the brushwork.