Provenance: Provenance: Galleria Duemila, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

Filipino abstract painter Norberto Carating is well-celebrated in the country and abroad. He has been a recipient of various prestigious awards, among which includes the CCP Thirteen Artists Awards in 1990. Through the decades of his artistic practice, he has shifted from his earlier Lamang Lupa and Anilao series to his abstractions of vigorous strokes and color application and his recent works that feature his use of metallic acrylic. His mastery of acrylic as his identifying medium is widely noted, along with his native sensibilities that course through in his striking and meditative works. Carating, who usually utilizes a local color palette in his paintings, is also an advocate of raising environmental awareness and ecological consciousness, participating in exhibits that advance this cause. In the chaotic layers of paint and unapologetic lines and brushstrokes onto the canvas, Greenhouse Effect is an intriguing piece that can serve as a painterly response to the particular global environmental concern. Abstract visual elements become expressive articulations that call the viewer’s attention to the negative implications of global warming to earth’s atmosphere and surface.