Manuscript of the article, 'Homage to Angel Flores', written by Ramon Katigbak and Benjamin Bautista. Attached to the 13-page document is a handwritten note from Ramon Katigbak to Joy Dayrit.
The article narrates the story of Angel Flores (1936 - 1968), a Filipino expatriate artist who died in a motorcycle accident in the US, leaving behind an English girlfriend named Sheila Hollister and around twenty paintings, which Sheila turned over to his two former Ateneo High School classmates, Ramon Katigbak and Benjamin Bautista, in 1969. The paintings were shown on a television talk show, 'Two For The Road,' in 1969, and were included in 'Summer Exhibition' at Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in 1970 and in the survey, 'A Decade of Developmental Art,' also at the CCP, in 1979. A solo exhibition was also mounted at Joy Dayrit's Print Gallery in 1971.
The article also describes in detail some of Flores' works: The Perfumed Garden; Baby, Sheila, Baby; and the zipper paintings, entitled Homage to Fontana.
The article was published by Nation magazine on 11 January 1971, which introduced the fictional persona 'Angel Flores' to the Filipino art scene. The persona was co-created by Roberto Chabet, Benjamin Bautista, Ramon Katigbak, and Angel Flores Jr. — Roberto Chabet — who was the artist of all the works created.
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Roberto CHABET,  Joy DAYRIT,  Angel FLORES
English
conceptualism,  found object,  found object,  painting
Circa 1971
manuscript, 
essay
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