Victor Puruganan is an artist who has carved his own path in the art world, something that cannot be taken away from him. Over the years he has created a body of work that is more than enough to fill up his house and makeshift studio several times over and yet one wonders why it took him this long to stage his very first official solo art exhibition.
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The “Genesis” curtain by H.R. Ocampo, Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo, CCP
Enter the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Nicanór Abelardo and you’re greeted by a blaze of red, a giant tapestry. The artist, Hernando R. Ocampo, would have been 110 years old last month and would have been gratified that his largest work continues to be in a class of its own.
The curtains of the world’s most famous halls are magnificent Opera Garnier in Paris, Venice’s La Fenice, New York’s Metropolitan at Lincoln Center, La Scala in Milan are in red or gold, elaborately draped and tasseled but the CCP’s is