| Instead of painter
or sculptor, they’d rather be called maker.
There’s no self-abasement
in this, for as Royston Taylor says - speaking for the
two of them:
“A meaning we would like
to rediscover in this… word… is that of ‘poet’ common
in the Middle Ages.”
Actually, poet-in the
contemporary sense, is one of the creative personalities
of his wife, Grace Marie Kalaw-Katigbak, with whom he
goes on a joint exhibit, Two Makers
at Hiraya Gallery.
It is the poet in her
that rhapsodizes, albeit darkly, in a kind of tribute
to her current muse, that of painting:
“Before I have so much
to lose, my memory fails, and I forget what it is like
to be afraid, to be unacceptable and alone, I have someone
I must acknowledge. I have a debt to her. She was me through
every betrayal. Even in madness… She lurks like a hidden
demon inside me…”
To the Hiraya exhibit,
which opens on September 7, Kalaw-Katigbak contributes
a number of fairly large paintings, done in oil on board,
while Taylor contributes almost an equal number of steel
sculptures of female nudes and horses. Like two of the
nudes - one of them is a woman boxer (No kidding!), the
horses are life-size. The rest are smaller caged figures
in steel, which can be hung on a peg presenting whatever
aspect the viewer fancies. |
