Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

Exhibited: Momentous Arts, Scherzo, Singapore,
November 2 - 27, 2007.

ABOUT THE WORK

Music has always been the guiding force for abstractionist Edwin Wilwayco, he is the only Filipino artist who has exhaustively used music both as subject and inspiration of his body of works. For a great length of time, Wilwayco has focused on works of such composers as Vivaldi, Dvorak, Bach, Schubert, or with musical formats like Scherzo which this piece is taken inspiration to. Wilwayco with his predominant use of warm to vibrant shades of orange and red endows the piece with a fiery aura that captures the tirelessness of a youth spirit fused the musicality with his own soul and letting the painting develop according to his inner feelings and moods in which he didn’t have any color preference but finds them as he goes that’s why it is visible on his paintings that they are juxtaposed with various changing effects. His colors are supposed to challenge or to echo each other.