Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

          The art of Tony Mahilum has always borne a  light-hearted air — a whimsicality in the busyness,  a sense of fulfillment in the toils.  In this work, we are welcomed into one of Mahilum’s archetypal landscapes.  
          The streets, teeming with people, exhibit no sense  of chaos nor disorder — not a single shroud of gloom nor angst present in the work.  In the near-utopic  composition, the market scene is lit up with a very  Filipino brilliance redolent of the tropical sun. The  populace contently, if not happily, enjoying the day’s events as they go about their seemingly perfect lives  in the idyll.