Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

“Consummatum est!” (“It is finished.”) were the final words of Jesus Christ as He veered in agony and loudly shouted unto the heavens, before passing away from this mortal world. This Crucifix has been carefully rendered by Eduardo Castrillo, one of the foremost Philippine modernist sculptors. Guided by his personal religious convictions, Castrillo contemplated about his personal struggles and inner demons permeated in this majestic metal sculpture. Peculiar in this sculpture is that Castrillo focuses primarily on the muscular torso of Christ’s body, instead of recreating the scene of His crucifixion and the cross in its entirety. It was envisioned that this commissioned piece was developed in order for the sculpture to be hung from above, as a means of devotion in a private chapel. A relative counterpart to this sculpture is the massive Christ the Cross in 1997 made in cut and welded brass and infused with carved hardwood located in the Parish Church of Don Bosco College in Makati, of which Castrillo was himself an alumnus in 1954.