This month yet another Filipino has done his country proud. He
is
the abstract expressionist and collage artist, Frederick B. Epistola,
who hails from Parañaque City, and has two of his works
collected by
the prestigious International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and
Construction (IMCAC) based in Texas, USA. Done in mixed media, the
pieces are entitled Psycological Procreation and Psycological
Procreation #2.
To date he is the first and only Asian collagist who has works
exhibited at IMCAC.
Featured in www.artmajeur.com, he says of his art: "My works
are
imageries of ideas—ethereal and mundane; emotions—intense and vibrant;
and experiences, all of which are conveyed through spontaneous strokes.
In my attempt to stretch the boundaries of what I can do with paint, I
used colors, which determine my mood and the intensity of my emotions.
All of my works are intimate and personal to me, thus confined within
the walls of a quad.
Still from the same website, the artist is described as a
"compulsive but ingenious painter who has a proclivity to disregard
traditional doctrines of paintings." He names as his most significant
influences the early German expressionist painters and the American
abstract expressionist movement in the 1950s as exemplified by works of
Willem De Kooning and Jackson Pollock.
A graduate of Fine Arts, majoring in Visual Communications at
the
University of the Philippines, Epistola’s works are scattered in the
Philippines as well as in private collections in Australia, New York,
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, France, Russia and
Thailand.
He is chairman of the Global Art Project for Children,
Children
NOW!, and also the director general of Unesco Club in the country.
Epistola is working on a new series of works for exhibition in
Europe.