<<

 

1965 geboren in Quezon, Philipinen. Studies at the Philippines University and at California State College, Bakersfield, CA, USA. Sein Werk verbindet Barocktradition mit politischen Aussagen und Comic Ikonic.

siehe Wikipedia/Manuel Ocampo:

His work fuses sacred Baroque religious iconography with the secular and serious political narrative with the cartoonish.Ocampo frequently revisits and makes reference to the art historical canon of political allegorists including Leon Golub, Gericault, Goya, Daumier with allusions to contemporary figures including political satirist R. Crumb Modernist painter Philip Guston. Ocampo’s dark, often disturbing Gothic paintings are attributed with transforming horror into exquisite beauty, history into art history, purgatory into salvation. Manuel Ocampo has exhibited extensively throughout the 1990s, with solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions through Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In 2005, his work was the subject of a large-scale survey at Casa Asia in Barcelona, and Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Sigean, France. Ocampo frequently revisits and makes reference to the art historical canon of political allegorists including Leon Golub, Gericault, Goya, Daumier with allusions to contemporary figures including political satirist R. Crumb Modernist painter Philip Guston. Ocampo’s dark, often disturbing Gothic paintings are attributed with transforming horror into exquisite beauty, history into art history, purgatory into salvation. Manuel Ocampo has exhibited extensively throughout the 1990s, with solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions through Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In 2005, his work was the subject of a large-scale survey at Casa Asia in Barcelona, and Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Sigean, France.

Lebt und arbeitet auf den Philipinen

1995 Preisträger der "The Art Matters Foundation"

1998 Preisträger Lila Wallace Reader`s Digest Artists at Giverny Program

 

 

Links:

• galerie Grässlin
• artcontemporain.lu

::