'The work of Ocampo speaks to us of a collective history, as well as the individual and singular experience which imitates that of many other displaced artists. He appeared on the international scene at the beginning of the 1990s as the maximum exponent of contemporary Philippine art. To the interest that his work aroused, one must add his nationality and the exclusion of which he was the object in his attempt to become integrated into an adopted medium and language. In spite of years he has spent outside of his country, he will always be a "Philippine", and his work has always been associated with the ambiguity of the trans-culturality of that country. This is, according to him, unique in Asia due to Catholicism and a generalized religious fervor inherited from the Spanish colonizers despite the multicultural diversity of the population[...] Thus, Manuel Ocampo is a referent of other referents for himself and for Spain because of the recurrent themes of his paintings and because he considers himself a turncoat to the multiple identities intertwined that make up the "Philippine" being. In his paintings they are represented by the hooded figures (penitents or members of the Ku Klux Klan), swastikas and crosses, combined with other elements of a kitsch esthetic which he defends by considering himself, firstly, as a "pop" artist.' - Ion de la Riva
Onsite
English,
Spanish
2005
406
8493295019
1
artist monograph,
catalogue
The Comedy of Art Is Not Funny - Ion DE LA RIVA
Bastard of Misrepresentation - Menene Gras BALAGUER
User's Manuel - Juan GUARDIOLA
Manuel Ocampo: Rough Gatherings at the Turn of the Millennium - Kevin POWER
Living on the Edges: Conversation with Manuel Ocampo - Kevin POWER
Theoretical Sheep Shit - Fernando Castro FLOREZ
E/sc(h)atologies - Fernando Castro FLOREZ
Painting on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - David BURROWS
Apocalypse Now: The Ambivalent Allegories of Manuel Ocampo - Jenifer P. BORUM
Perverse Beauty - Kenneth BAKER
Two Ribs: Comments to Ni en la vida, nien la muerte, about some paintings by Manuel Ocampo - Pedro G. ROMERO
Altered Natives: A Conversation between Manuel Ocampo and Gaston Damag - Gaston DAMAG
What is Spanishness?: A Conversation between Manuel Ocampo and Curro Gonzalez - Curro GONZALEZ
Manuel Ocampo. 'Wunder Kammer' - Sandra DANICKE
Manolito (To Manuel Ocampo) - Guillermo Perez VILLALTA
The Devil is God in Exile: Manuel Ocampo - Chon A. NORIEGA
Spiritual Retreat for the End of a Millennium - Fernando HUICI
The Transgression of Manuel Ocampo - Victoria COMBALIA
An Unofficial Glossary to Some of the Paintings
I, too, am Painting - Eduardo ARROYO
Nature, Religion, Myth and Politics in Philippine Art Trends - Hilda Maria RODRIGUEZ ENRIQUEZ
Manuel Ocampo: Bastards of Misrepresentation
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