Jose Garcia Villa

The work is a sculpture bust of José Garcia Villa, which I fashioned out of white ceramic clay, baked or fired low in a kiln, and thinly painted with acrylic. Somebody from the staff of Dr. Nicanor Tiongson, who was then the Artistic Director of the CCP, placed it in this altar-like cabinet or an urna as if to enshrine him as a literary saint! This work is a seminal piece, representing my early artistic period in white clay, before I discovered terracotta of which I became probably the most active exponent. Clay is a joyous wonderful medium of which there is a vast supply in all regions of the Philippines.

To know more about this artwork, watch its feature from CCP's Cultural Cache Online video series:Cultural Cache Online Season 3: “José Garcia Villa” by Julie Lluch .

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