PROPERTY FROM THE JEANNIE JAVELOSA COLLECTION

Accompanied by a certificate issued by Mr. Nixio Castrillo
confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

Solid metal, which is the chief medium of Castrillo’s immaculately crafted sculptures, embodies the uncanny skill and talent of the artist. His workshop is nothing short of a beehive of activity, wherein he studies his medium in their variant behavior and exploits them with a burst of energy, resulting in a wondrous output of metalworks. An exquisite cross-breeding of a blacksmith and a sculptor, Eduardo Castrillo, led a renaissance of sculpture in the Philippines. Aware of his social responsibility, his works reflect an artist caught between an era of his country’s search for its true self while still relying on his own ingenuity. The paradoxical description of Castrillo’s works as being simple yet complicated is a subtle flattery of how the master himself uncomplicatedly created labyrinthian masterpieces using modest geometric figures. As Castrillo himself said: “I love the physicality of sculpture. The heavy duty labor that goes with it and the challenges of taming the material, controlling the tough solidity of the medium and molding it into something flesh-like, lifelike.