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ABOUT THE WORK

Claude Tayag is an accomplished painter, sculptor, furniture designer, a handy chef, food and travel columnist for the Philippine Star. Tayag is primarily a self-taught artist, taking up architecture and economics courses at the University of the Philippines. He first entered into the Manila art scene in 1977, winning second prize for his painting Ati-Atihan at the Art Association of the Phil (AAP) competition. The following year, he had his first one-man show of paintings of Philippine folk festivals, religious images, and Cordillera landscapes, works characterized by a forceful spontaneity and raw vigor. He has participated in several one-man and group exhibitions in Manila , Beijing , Washington DC, and Madrid. His art is part of many private and public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Bank of Philippine Islands, and PLDT. In July 2019, he held his retrospective exhibition at the National Museum in Manila, whose accompanying catalog was adjudged as the Best Design Book by the National Book Development Board. Tayag says of the work at hand, titled Yugyugan sa Kalibo Plaza: “This painting was an off-shoot of the AtiAtihan painting that won in the AAP competition 1977. It was one of several studies that culminated in a much larger Ati-atihan themed painting (140 cm x 525 cm), now in the BPI Foundation collection. In this particular work, I applied daubs of paint without any blending on the canvas, pointillist style, specifically inspired by Ibarra de la Rosa. Ultimately, with painting basically a onedimensional, static art form, I wanted to capture the frenzied, pulsating movement of the Ati-atihan.”