benjie cabangis filipino artist |
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benjie cabangis filipino artist |
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LUPANG HINIRANG, Cabangis' 13th solo show, continues the artist concern to focus on essential things that find affinity to one's homeland. Cabangis had his debut one-man show, two years before he obtained his bachelor of fine arts from the College of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines where he was a consistent scholar throughout his student days in the institution. The show signalled the auspicious start of an artistic career which the local art scene took note with favor. Dotting these are twelve other solo exhibitions, five two man shows, and several group exhibitions, both national and international. Cabangis is undoubtedly one of the country's most respected abstract painters today. He continues to enjoy a solid artistic reputation based on his inventiveness and derring-do. In 1978, the Cultural Center of the Philippines recognized him as one of the Thirteen Artists Awardees. Very recently, Cabangis's diptych work entitled " Endangered Icons I & II was gifted by the PHINMA to the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank to represent the Philippines in the international art collection now gracing the newly inaugurated offices of the World Bank in Washington, DC in the United States. Cabangis holds the 1996 Fernando Amorsolo Professorial Chair in Painting at the U.P. College of Fine Arts where, for the last fifteen years now, he has been teaching painting. (Cabangis's most recent exhibition, his 15th solo show, is the Celestine Series at the Crucible Gallery in Manila and the Philippine Center in New York.) |
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