Inquirer Southern Luzon Abstracts on Ina devotion - Inquirer.net

PANCHO PIANO, ONE OF THE most prolific Bicolano contemporary visual artists, paid tribute to the homegrown devotion of Our Lady of Peñafrancia, or Ina, in a series of paintings on exhibit last month at Naga City’s Avenue Square.

Piano has been in the national art scene since he graduated with a fine arts degree from the University of the Philippines in 1985 under the mentorship of Jose Joya.

To celebrate the mystical year of the homegrown devotion that will turn exactly three centuries in September, the artist composed modern abstracts that make use of line movements depicting converging figures over fluxing strokes of the brush combined with dabbled or whipped acrylic in one stroke.

At close look, Piano showed some spontaneity in delivering minute strokes using brush tip as in calligraphy, with swipes to sustain the movement and variation of the composition.

From: http://ping.fm/966If