SALAKOT AT SUMBALILO
The freestyle life of the country. The peaceful rural life. The bounty of the harvest and the fresh catch of the sea sold by the market vendor.A lover’s serenade and the friendship shared with music and lambanog. The manifestaion of faith of the simple rural family and their bonding as they toil, travel and feast on simple blessings.
If you divine these themes seemingly as through the eyes of a child in this collection, then Noli Vicedo has succeeded in his objective. His illustrative and fauvist compositions seek to express what is festive in the ordinary, everyday rural life as he remembers it to be in the early 1960s as a young boy in the family farms in Cavite with his lolo and lola. He catches glimpses of it even today, when he goes back to the farm on not-so-busy weekends. He hopes to preserve this, even if only through his work, in order to pass on the idyllic memories to his three daughters.
Vicedo’s choice of gouache as medium adds luster to the art pieces and gives a light, feel-good and modern interpretation of the subject. Indeed, golden days are celebrated in his work. Just tribute is given to the folks who wore salakot and sumbalilo and lived out arduous but refreshing chores of the country. Life in the province was so simple that expectations were easily met and everyone went about doing not only what was necessary but what was best.
This series is a collection of Vicedo's works in his Graduate School studies of the Masters of Fine Arts in the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. This was Vicedo's second one-man show on November 14 to 20, 2009 at the Podium, Ortigas Center, Manila.
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If you divine these themes seemingly as through the eyes of a child in this collection, then Noli Vicedo has succeeded in his objective. His illustrative and fauvist compositions seek to express what is festive in the ordinary, everyday rural life as he remembers it to be in the early 1960s as a young boy in the family farms in Cavite with his lolo and lola. He catches glimpses of it even today, when he goes back to the farm on not-so-busy weekends. He hopes to preserve this, even if only through his work, in order to pass on the idyllic memories to his three daughters.
Vicedo’s choice of gouache as medium adds luster to the art pieces and gives a light, feel-good and modern interpretation of the subject. Indeed, golden days are celebrated in his work. Just tribute is given to the folks who wore salakot and sumbalilo and lived out arduous but refreshing chores of the country. Life in the province was so simple that expectations were easily met and everyone went about doing not only what was necessary but what was best.
This series is a collection of Vicedo's works in his Graduate School studies of the Masters of Fine Arts in the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. This was Vicedo's second one-man show on November 14 to 20, 2009 at the Podium, Ortigas Center, Manila.
Please click on the image to view full image.