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By Rome Jorge, Lifestyle editor
His art bites. An opinion editorial cartoonist
for The Sydney Morning Herald, 59-year-old Australia-based Filipino
artist Eduardo Aragon recently exhibited three genres in three
different venues in an event dubbed Tres Kantos.
Digitalla Prima, Italian for “at once,”
consisted of 20 digitally manipulated photographs that exhibited The
Oarhouse, 1803 A. Mabini Street, Malate, Manila.
Mulat showcased 30 canvases painted ultra-violet
light-reactive paints at Banyuhay ni Heber Arts & Music Center
170 Banlat Road, Tandang Sora, Quezon City. Plain white in ordinary
light, they reveal glowing images under ultra-violet lighting. The
highlight of the exhibit was life-size portrait of Tandang Sora aka
Melchora Aquino, Mother of Katipunan.
Op-Edd gathered a collection of Aragon’s op-ed
cartoons and caricatures published a span of over 30 years in such
publications as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and The
Daily Telegraph, including prints of his political cartoons
currently in exhibition at the National Museum of Australia,
Canberra. Aragon was awarded Artist of the Year in Australia in four
illustrative genres. No less than legendary cartoonist Nonoy Marcelo
mentored Aragon during the 1970s.
Aragon says, “I found out newspaper culture is
universal; artists and journalists working together but each in his
own world and constantly aware of events and deadlines. My
experience in Manila as newspaper cartoonist brought me confidence
and tenacity to work in Australian newspapers since 1980. I’ve
consistently injected elements of human form in my editorial
drawings. I enjoy using manual airbrush before scanning drawings for
digital paint program and 3-D enhancement.”
For details, visit http://eddaragon.blogspot.com
or http://eddaragon.wordpress.com.
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