This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by Mr. Nixxio Castrillo confirming the authenticity of this lot

ABOUT THE WORK

Often considered ahead of his time, Eduardo Castrillo is a Filipino master artist with an unparalleled skill in producing figurative and abstract metal sculptures. Castrillo is omnipresent in a way that the monuments he created can be found around the country, spotted by commuters, tourists, and people frequenting establishments and institutions that acquired his works. Some of his works are also featured in public spaces abroad. Even his less expansive sculptures are monumental and valued in its intricacies, wonders produced out of a determined focus on the rudiments of volume and space. Castrillo’s Inception in Organic Form is one of his works that display his draftsmanship in working brass and creating masterpieces that have organic outlines. The beauty and spirit of an actualizing beginning—the starting point of an activity or process—are concretized in its complex geometrical features. It is the physicality of sculpture that makes Castrillo drawn to this art form. He noted the challenges of “taming the material, controlling the tough solidity of the medium, and molding it into something flesh-like, lifelike” in an interview. One of the leading Filipino sculptors, Castrillo has made significant contributions to the Philippine contemporary art scene in the field of sculpture since the 1960s. His creations are rooted in his intrinsic values: nationalism and faith.