Provenance:
Galleria Duemila, Inc.

Exhibited:
Galleria Duemila, Second Nature, Pasay City,
August 6 to 29, 2011

ABOUT THE WORK

With the vivid colors of flora and fauna of Edwin Wilwayco’s hometown, it had played a big part in Wilwayco’s selections that led his fascination with the application of color in nature where he saw how it demonstrated its beautiful colors in one to three color combinations. For the artist, the use of color had the greatest importance in relation to theories in which every time he look at the different flowers, he is marveled and in awe hence there is no wonder that in this piece entitled Second Nature: Mariposa, the viewer is also left astounded with the transitions of pigmentation - the sudden, seamless shift from one hue to another. As James T. Valliere has noted in the coffee table book Edwin Wilwayco, “When I look at paintings by Edwin Wilwayco, I see the airlines and delicacy of the interactions of his colors… There is calmness in Wilwayco’s paintings that can take me to a very reassuring and restful place.”