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Pacita Abad: A Million Things To Say
Pacita exemplified her unique approach to composition in mixed media, painted textile collages, abstract assemblages and trapunto paintings – padded, quilted, and adorned with sequins, beads, shells, buttons, bits of mirror, tin and glass, rickrack, rhinestones and swatches of hand-stitched textiles such as Indonesian ikat and batik gathered from her travels. Her works cover socio-political portraits, masks and her love of underwater scenery, animal wildlife and tropical flowers, while her public arts include the 55-meter long bridge in Singapore, wherein she painted 2,350 multicolored circles a few months before she passed on in 2004.
The Pacita Abad: A Million Things to Say catalogue invites the readers into a discussion about her body of work, particularly her underwater trapunto paintings, as well as the production and exhibition history of her Masks and Spirits series. It likewise delves on Pacita’s place in the history of art as well as the complexity of being a ‘woman of colour’ — a double entendre that she herself embraced.
The book features a conversation between the exhibition curators together with Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, a curator of National Art Gallery Singapore. It also includes essays by Clara Kim, the Daskalopoulos senior curator for International Art at Tate Modern London, as well as H.G. Masters, the deputy editor and deputy publisher of Art Asia Pacific Magazine Singapore.
The book was designed by Studio HATO and was printed by Asia One HK. It comes with a softcover and a dust jacket.
colour illustrations
Softcover
160 pages
Dimensions: 26 x 21 x 1.5 cm
Publisher: The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design
Published date 2018
Country of publication: Manila, Philippines
Weight: 0.7 kg
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