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ABOUT THE WORK

One of the most recognizable voices of the second generation of Filipino abstractionists, Romulo Olazo has left an indelible mark on the culture of Filipino abstract art. A long time favorite for the National Artist in Visual Arts for Painting award, Olazo’s works are undeniably original and wholly unique. Aside from his seminal Diaphanous series and his subsequent artistic experimentations with Permutation, Olazo also produced a sizable collection of untitled works that proves his unsurpassed mastery over his craft. Unlike his more ubiquitous works, most of Olazo’s untitled pieces showcased the artist’s creative genius at its most pure and fundamental state. The series peeled back the seemingly perfectionist layers that Olazo had propped up in both his Diaphanous and Permutation series to reveal the necessary yet difficult voyage of artistic discovery. Though he may be remembered for his more major works, without his untitled series, we would have never seen the master at his greatest.