Pancho Piano’s Pastores – Series

The Pastores is a annual festive in the Bicol Region in celebration of the birth of the Messiah or the Savior.  This is a dramatization performed by (6) six men and women. It often starts at the “Noche Buena” celebration up to the festive of the “Three Kings”. But sometimes the celebration can reach “Candelaria” – February 2nd.

2016 Pastores – Acrylic on Canvas

48″ x 72″ 

 

 

Pancho Piano’s Merging Colors at the Art Elements Asian Gallery

This coming June 21, 2018, 6:30pm, Pancho Piano will be launching “Merging Colors” just 2 days before end of the exhibit after the very successful “Hagod” Art Exhibit in Okada Manila. He will be showcasing explosion of colors that will ultimately warm your hearts this start of rainy season. 

The Merging Colors – Art Exhibit will be featured at the Art Elements Asian Gallery in SM Aura Premier – Bonifacio Global City, in Taguig. This latest Pancho Piano Art Exhibit promise guests an immersive viewing experience of the visual arts.

Hagod Art Exhibit at the Okada Manila

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“Hagod” … a gentle stroke of brush… but in the works of Pancho Piano, “hagod” transcends the mere movement as the pieces created evoke more than just patterns and figures but splashes of memories that stirs the spirit and warms the heart.

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Indeed, it is a showcase of Piano’s colorful visual memoirs in rapturous explosion of fluid strokes rendered in kaleidoscope of colors that intimates various emotions.

These are paintings suggestive of a sense of ethereality… of sublimity…something that inspires that certain lightness of being. 

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Georgian – Philippine Poetry and Mural Painting Demonstration

“This is just the start of our collaboration in Georgia. Mr. Cunanan has done a tremendous job and I look forward to working with him to bring more exhibitions to Georgia,” said Philippine Honorary Consul General Teimuraz Chichinadze.

The painting, along with a multimedia presentation of the poetry-mural painting event, will be on display in Manila in May 2015, at a Philippine – Georgian art exhibition that I am organizing, in cooperation with several major academic institutions. Mr. Piano and the Philippine – Georgian exhibit will also go on a roadshow to Prague, Czech Republic and Vienna, Austria in October 2015.

 

Poets of the Southern Tagalog

Aside from his liturgical art, Pancho M. Piano is also a poet of Bicol Southern Tagalog Region. A faithful son Kabikulan, he has paid homage, in his numerous paintings in oil and acrylic, to the myths, legends and traditional of Bicol, its indigenous deities such as Haliya, the moon goddess of abundance and fertility with her multiple breast, and Daragang Magayon in the folktale of ill-starred lovers, as well as myths surroundings the origin of Albay province. He has also celebrated in many forms the region’s festivals, especially that of Our Lady of Peñafrancia water festival, the principal yearly evebt for the Bicolanos. This festival centers on the icon of Our Lady in real cape and gown, similar to the Virgin de la Naval, as she presides over the swarming multitudes of the faithful who come from all corners of Bicol to pay her homepage. The distinctive features of this holy day is the large procession of people riding in river boats accompanying the Virgin borne on the shoulders of the multitude buoyed up by the water to and from the church via the river route. Every year, thousand of Bicolanos, affirming their faith, travel to participate in the festival, sometimes even risking life and limb in the process, as when a bridge carrying crowds of the faithful collapsed into the water and caused numerous casualities.

In one of the artist’s interpretation of this festival, the artist also celebrates the comely women of his region which he portrays on both sides of the Virgin of Peñafrancia. Dressed in indigenous and local costumes, they in the theme of women’s courage and strength and their social role in the community. Below, in the foreground is the fleet of bancas with their swarthy muscular oarsmen, while in the background are the great cathedrals of Bicol flanking Mount Mayon of the perfect cone, symbol of the region.

The artist’s paean to his home province of Bicol found a culmination in his 2000 show at the Ayala Museum entitled Haliya after the Bicol Moon goddess of fertility. The show consisted of Bicol myths and legends executed in acrylic and oil. It is of note that the central painting, after which the show entitled, was executed in a combination of the figurative and abstract modes deviating from traditional figurative narratives. Aptly enough, his show was said “to have satisfied the artist’s dream of being able to interpret these legends on canvas.”