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    Borlongan is a prominent contemporary Filipino painter known for depicting scenes of everyday Filipino urban life and culture in his figurative expressionist works, sharply depicting the imperfect world. His 1988 painting Rehimen represented the marginalized Filipino people living in poverty. Cabrera is a National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts, having a prolific career spanning five decades exhibiting across Asia, Europe, and the US. Villamiel is a multimedia artist known for his large-scale installations made of found objects from local communities, reflecting the current socio-political situation in the Philippines through works highlighting elements of poverty, consumerism, and religion.

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    Elmer Borlongan

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    Borlongan is a prominent contemporary Filipino painter known for depicting scenes of everyday Filipino urban life and culture in his figurative expressionist works, sharply depicting the imperfect world. His 1988 painting Rehimen represented the marginalized Filipino people living in poverty. Cabrera is a National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts, having a prolific career spanning five decades exhibiting across Asia, Europe, and the US. Villamiel is a multimedia artist known for his large-scale installations made of found objects from local communities, reflecting the current socio-political situation in the Philippines through works highlighting elements of poverty, consumerism, and religion.

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    Borlongan is a prominent contemporary Filipino painter known for depicting scenes of everyday Filipino urban life and culture in his figurative expressionist works, sharply depicting the imperfect world. His 1988 painting Rehimen represented the marginalized Filipino people living in poverty. Cabrera is a National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts, having a prolific career spanning five decades exhibiting across Asia, Europe, and the US. Villamiel is a multimedia artist known for his large-scale installations made of found objects from local communities, reflecting the current socio-political situation in the Philippines through works highlighting elements of poverty, consumerism, and religion.

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    Elmer Borlongan

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    Borlongan is a prominent contemporary Filipino painter known for depicting scenes of everyday Filipino urban life and culture in his figurative expressionist works, sharply depicting the imperfect world. His 1988 painting Rehimen represented the marginalized Filipino people living in poverty. Cabrera is a National Artist of the Philippines for Visual Arts, having a prolific career spanning five decades exhibiting across Asia, Europe, and the US. Villamiel is a multimedia artist known for his large-scale installations made of found objects from local communities, reflecting the current socio-political situation in the Philippines through works highlighting elements of poverty, consumerism, and religion.

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    (1967-present)

    The Manila-based artist often refers to Filipino culture in his paintings, drawing from everyday scenes of
    local urban life, which sharply depict an imperfect world. Borlongan’s work is a favorite among collectors
    and at auctions. In his first major work, Rehimen (1988), he uses bold brushwork to manipulate the
    Marlboro emblem, which is guarded by a pack of dogs as an emaciated figure lays in despair in the
    foreground. The painting represents the marginalized Filipino people who are living in poverty, with no
    way of moving forward. In February 2018, Borlongan celebrated a retrospective of 25 years in art,
    showcasing more than 150 paintings and 50 drawings featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Manila.
    He is a prominent contemporary Filipino painter best known for his distinctive use of figurative
    expressionism.

    (1942-present)
    Fondly known as ‘BenCab’ in the Philippines, Cabrera is the best-selling commercial painter of his
    generation and a prominent head of the local contemporary art scene and was awarded National Artist
    of the Philippines for Visual Arts (Painting) in 2006. He studied under José Joya at the University of the
    Philippines and received his degree in Fine Arts in 1963. His fruitful career has spanned five decades,
    where his paintings, etchings, sketches, and prints have been exhibited across Asia, Europe, and the US.
    He currently resides in the chilly northern hill station of Baguio, where he established his own four-level
    BenCab Museum on Asin Road that features an eclectic selection of indigenous artifacts, personal
    works, and an overwhelming collection of paintings from contemporary Filipino artists.

    (1953-present)
    Born in Caloocan City, Manila, Villamiel is a multimedia artist known for his large-scale installations
    consisting of objects found in local communities. His art career may have started later in life, but his
    installations have enthralled audiences for the past decade. He initially worked as a set designer for
    television, a leather bag craftsman and a successful t-shirt company entrepreneur before holding his
    first solo exhibition in 2006.

    He once filled a room with thousands of bullhorns in his show Mga Damong Ligaw (‘Wild Weeds’) in
    2014, at the Light and Space Contemporary in Fairview, Manila. The bullhorn installation was made to
    look like a terrain of weeds when viewed at a certain angle. Villamiel’s work reflects the current socio-
    political situation in the country, highlighting elements of poverty, consumerism, and religion. His
    massive installation Payatas, which features thousands of doll heads, was chosen to represent the
    Philippines in the Singapore Biennale exhibition in 2013. It took him two-and-a-half years to finish this
    work.

    (source: The Culture Trip, https://theculturetrip.com/asia/philippines/articles/the-10-most-famous-


    filipino-artists-and-their-masterworks/ )

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