Provenance:
Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

H.R. Ocampo created a visual language that cannot be mistaken for anyone else’s. He showed dynamic elements that might become part of any number of visually logical arrays vigorously sought by a desiring eye such as how Abstraction 63 was presented in a mix of variation of orange and blue where the colors are given harmonic sequences of carefully arranged tones and intensities hence the viewer is left in awe to such masterpiece, a genius abstract discretion. Jonathan L. Beller in his Nationalism in Scenes and Spaces of H.R. Ocampo, even described Ocampo’s paintings as, “are paintings seeking the liberation of vision through the deification of the visible object… If objectivity and objectification are precisely the removal of agency from living beings, the formal decodification of the very process of objectification returns power to the viewer, allowing the eye to dance in a relatively free quest for new orders and meanings as it has a chance to create itself outside of any narrative schema.”