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ABOUT THE WORK

While western Cubism is all about objective analysis of physicality, Malang borrows its approach and techniques to pursue the opposite, i.e. to synthesize what has been broken down into a unified interpretation of human form. Modern painting tends to assert its flatness more explicitly, more insistently. The influence of the masters of Cubism is perfectly visible, particularly that of his mentor Leger, and locally, Manansala, for whom Malang has always manifested the keenest admiration. The figuration brings to mind those satisfying early works of Leger in which circles and ellipses at sharp staccato angles vie with long, severe slab shapes, not unlike those marks made with the flat side of a soft pointed pencil. Although influenced by Vicente Manansala’s transparent Cubism, Malang’s work, as exemplified by this woman, manifest a distinct style based on the juxtaposition of shapes defined with linear quaility