Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

          The year 1994 was eventful for Romulo Olazo, it was then that he celebrated his 25th year  in the Philippine art scene.  To commemorate his prolific career he held three simultaneous  one-man shows under the black and white umbrella theme at the Finale Art File curated  by Roberto Chabet, Galleria Duemila and the Crucible Gallery.
          The same year also marked the final group exhibition of Olazo, Legaspi, Malang and Kiukok, due to the death of Cesar Legaspi.
          Now in high-keyed blacks, whites and intermediate grays, Olazo strived to maintain  a “floating” quality, a hovering activity, like a whispery fusion of matter and illusion.  Despite the dense layer of ‘screens”, the operating demand is the tension between dark and light, thereby producing optical vibrations.  Inducing of constant motion are the multi-directional trajectories of the ever-shifting screens, most often the boulders of forms are never anchored on the edge, lifting them away from any sense of gravitational pull.