In 2011, the group exhibit of mixed media collage entitled Poleteismo was installed at the Cultural Center of the Philippines by the artist Mideo Cruz. Instead of appreciation from different art circles, the exhibit was considered an art mishap and blasphemous and the artist “juvenile, immature” by a certain national artist for literature. The art […]

CORAZON GAUFO PATARATA is a self-taught artist aspiring to achieve excellence in her craft. Cora started doing pencil and watercolor sketches at age five, in a stimulating environment of cultivated gardens, pine forest, animal menageries, oil paintings, books on renaissance art, and Gerrman magazines on flora and fauna, generously provided by her father’s German employer, Carl Gustav Hammes. Born in Manila […]