Fernando Kabigting’s works featured in NY gallery

The works of famed Filipino artist Fernando Kabigting were featured at the Philippine Center New York Gallery to recognize his decades-long career and also as part of the Philippine Consulate's celebration of Philippine Independence Day.

Entitled “Seeing Beyond: An Artist’s Journey,” the exhibit, which opened last June 10, showed over 30 of Kabigting's latest pieces that depicted popular Philippine landmarks and landscapes on painted old wood sourced from train tracks around the country.

“Mr. Kabigting’s works that we exhibit today reflect his fortitude, dedication to his craft, and a passion to create beauty,” Consul General Mario de Leon Jr. remarked during the exhibit opening.
 
Among the paintings featured at the exhibit: (clockwise) Bird of Paradise, Sunflower, Antipolo Bells, A Meadow’s Treasure, Hope Springs, Nana’s Hut, Inside Looking Out, Floral Spray, The Old House Church Bells and Pink Parasol. Photo from Philippine Consulate in New York

Kabigting's wife Menchu explained that her husband had to train his left hand to paint with watercolors after a debilitating stroke in 1999 paralyzed his right hand and blinded his left eye.

“Art to Didi, as he is called, is synonymous to life, to breathing and to praying,” said Menchu.

The New York Times featured the artist's struggle to regain his prowess with the paintbrush in 2008.

“I used to be a perfectionist. Now I have to be contented with what’s there," Kabigting told the publication.

Kabigting first had a solo exhibit at the Philippine Center New York in 1988, showing off his signature pieces painted on wooden basins or batyas.

More recently, Kabigting had one-man exhibits at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in 2009, at the Italia Gallery in Bacolod City in 2012, and at the Ayala Museum in 2014.

The exhibit at the Philippine Center New York Gallery will last until June 25 (US time).

Menchu said this may be her husband's last solo show. —Rie Takumi/KBK, GMA News

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