Light as Method and Metaphor

• Main Author: Daoana, Carlomar Arcangel
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2014
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/paha/vol4/iss2/24; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/paha/article/1140/viewcontent/PAHA_204.2_2024_20Feature_20__20Daoana.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Excerpt: Illuminating Rod. Paras-Perez: Beyond Art and Its History June 18–August 13, 2014 Ateneo Art Gallery Quezon City Isolating and framing works of an artist (especially of someone who has passed away) by chronology runs the risk of nostalgia, of the charge of easy categorization. What we, the viewers, seek is a narrative—continuities and vitalizing connections—not an itinerary. In the case of Illuminating Rod. Paras-Perez, however, a show where the spotlight is trained on Rod. Paras-Perez’s prints, paintings, sculpture, and mixed media works from the 1960s and 1970s, a curatorial decision to follow chronology derives from the fact that the artist’s crucial awakenings occurred in those decades, when he was to launch and secure his reputation as one of the country’s premier artists.