RECENT NEWS I EVENTS
Modern Vintage Illustration, a book by Martin Dawber
Danny Castillones Sillada has recently been included among the international artists in Martin Dawber’s book “Modern Vintage Illustration,” composed of some of the best illustrators worldwide. Martin Dawber, author of several illustrated books on fashion, photography and vintage illustrations, is a fashion and textile expert, lecturer and a consultant editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture.
Stephen Bayley, author and one of the world’s renowned commentators on modern culture and contemporary design and architecture, wrote the foreword of the book due for release this August 2012 by a London publisher Anova Books, Inc.
Recent Articles by Danny Castillones Sillada (Philosophical Essays, Literary and Art Reviews, Poetry & Travel)
- Birthing And Birth Anniversary: A Family And Societal Affair (A Birthday Reflection)
- PART 1: Cesare A.X. Syjuco: Thinking And Creating Within And Outside The Box (The Quiddity of ‘Concept’ and ‘Object’ in Conceptual Art) (Art Review)
- PART 2: Cesare A.X. Syjuco: Thinking And Creating Within And Outside The Box (The Quiddity of ‘Concept’ and ‘Object’ in Conceptual Art) (Art Review)
- Surrealism in the Philippines (An Interview with multidisciplinary artist and writer Danny Castillones Sillada) (Art)
- Noli Aurillo, The Portrait Of A Musician's Musician (Music)
- Truth, Language, Compassion, and the 'Danger of Single Story' (First Part, Philosophy)
- Truth, Language, Compassion, and the 'Danger of Single Story' (Last Part, Philosophy)
- The Conceived, Lived and Shared "Lush Life" of Alfred "Krip" Yuson (Literary Review)
- San Victor Island's Ineffable Treasure (Travel)
- Five Former Beauty Queens amidst the Convoluted World of Art (Art Review)
- The Joy and Misery of Boredom (Philosophy l Culture l Ideas)
- The Door of an Abandoned Old House (Poetry)
- Jon Jaylo’s “A Song for Alice” (Sotheby's Catalogue and CuadroFilipino)
- The Metaphor of Life against the Current, between Arrival and Departure (Reflection)
- What We Don't Know About God (Philosophy l Culture l Ideas)
- Transcendent Happiness, the Summum Bonum and Sisyphean Perspective (Culture l Ideas)
- Existential Question, Evolution of Ideas (Philosophy l Culture l Ideas)
Photo and Quote of the Month
The Innocence of Waitng, photo by Danny Castillones Sillada
“What was not there that deprived our childhood, in the beginning, is not the source of our resentment and bitterness as we grew older, but what was not supposed to be there that we should not live and carry throughout our adulthood. The human soul can be broken but not the innocence about life, death, and hope beyond its empirical existence. Innocence, as an inherent virtue, does not precede nor proceed from childhood; everyone carries it from birth to adult life, and it can only be broken when there is nothing left, purpose or meaning, to live or die for in one’s existence.”
-- Danny Castillones Sillada, The Complexity of Childhood and Innocence (Inusara Journal, May 5, 2012)
Video of the Month: "What Have I Ever Lost By Loving"
SURREALISM IN THE PHILIPPINES
(An Interview with multidisciplinary artist and writer Danny Castillones Sillada)
by Paulo Villones
FOUNTAIN OF LIFE, 2006, nail art and hydro-kinetic sculpture installation, by Danny Castillones Sillada
Paulo Villones: How would you describe surrealism in the Philippines?
Danny Castillones Sillada: Surrealism in Philippine art is an individual style rather than a movement compared to its development in Latin America, USA and Europe. We have no historical surrealist movement in the country with a cohesive manifesto that sprang from political or anarchic cause relative to its inception in the early 1920s by French poet and writer André Breton. Hence, I could say that Surrealism in the Philippines is a road less traveled by local artists, a personal pursuit of creative style and technique rather than as a popular genre in our local art scene.
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Symbolism, Culture, and Politics (A conversation with multidisciplinary artist and writer Danny Castillones Sillada)
Menstrual Period in Political History by Danny Sillada
by Angelita Porteo
Angelita Porteo: “Menstrual Period in Political History” is your most “controversial” mixed media artwork in 2005. What is the parallelism of “Politics” and “Menstrual Period” and how does it relate to Philippine politics and culture?
Danny C. Sillada: “Menstrual Period in Political History” is a mixed media on metamorphic rock or slate, with painted and carved vaginal form at the center. The visual narrative of the artwork is not vociferous with bleak background in contrast to the vibrant colors of my typical paintings. However, I never expected that its inconspicuous presence along with the title would become controversial in 2005.
The parallelism of “Politics” and “Menstrual Period” is, obviously, the cyclical political turmoil in our country, which is periodic since the Marcos time up to the Arroyo regime.
Like a woman’s menstrual period, Philippines politics has its own menstrual cycle in our country in the form of corruption, economic instability, violation of human rights, the involuntary disappearances of civilians, the century-old war in Mindanao, insurgency, poverty, and inadequacy of political leaders to address socio-economic and political problems in our society, to name a few.
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The Surrealistic Reality of Danny Castillones Sillada
The Metaphor of Rock, 2001, by Danny Sillada
by Shar Matingka
Danny Sillada has established himself as a neo-ethnic artist, his masterpieces overflowing with vibrant incoherence, transcending movements spawned from legacies of surrealists. Not many of our contemporary artists can recreate a poetic replica of a disjointed reality captured on canvas as Sillada can, and that too with such wild abandon. Distinct geometrical patterns with ordinary objects, a signature characteristic of time fluidity injected with hallucinatory flows, the blood of his emotions fleeting in seamless strokes where a person can get lost forever in random speculation on what was meant to be conveyed. Minds are left bewildered and slightly disturbed yet visually gratified – these are some trademarks of Sillada’s work of art.
At the tender age of seven, Danny’s thirst for art manifested itself. Identified as a gifted child with the flair for immortalizing his emotions and the world around him through sketches and paintings, he began with portraits of teachers, classmates and relatives and landscape painting. Between 1977 and 1982 in Davao Oriental, he earned the Gifted Child Award in Cateel Public Elementary School and Award of Excellence/Artist of the Year Award in Maryknoll High School of Cateel. A proud native of Davao, he has earned and advocating ethnic culture in his paintings, music and other literary works.
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Danny Sillada has established himself as a neo-ethnic artist, his masterpieces overflowing with vibrant incoherence, transcending movements spawned from legacies of surrealists. Not many of our contemporary artists can recreate a poetic replica of a disjointed reality captured on canvas as Sillada can, and that too with such wild abandon. Distinct geometrical patterns with ordinary objects, a signature characteristic of time fluidity injected with hallucinatory flows, the blood of his emotions fleeting in seamless strokes where a person can get lost forever in random speculation on what was meant to be conveyed. Minds are left bewildered and slightly disturbed yet visually gratified – these are some trademarks of Sillada’s work of art.
At the tender age of seven, Danny’s thirst for art manifested itself. Identified as a gifted child with the flair for immortalizing his emotions and the world around him through sketches and paintings, he began with portraits of teachers, classmates and relatives and landscape painting. Between 1977 and 1982 in Davao Oriental, he earned the Gifted Child Award in Cateel Public Elementary School and Award of Excellence/Artist of the Year Award in Maryknoll High School of Cateel. A proud native of Davao, he has earned and advocating ethnic culture in his paintings, music and other literary works.
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Mindanaoan Artist Sillada Explores ‘Uncharted Border’ in New York
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Uncharted Borders’ in New York, the 13th One-Man Show of Danny Sillada
 Danny Sillada invite
‘UNCHARTED BORDERS', a one-man show by Danny C. Sillada at Philippine Center, 556 5th Avenue, New York, July 27 – August 14, 2009.
Sillada performed his poetry and ethnic music at the opening of the exhibit, which was attended by the Philippine Ambassador to the UN Hilario Davide, Jr., Consul General Cecilia Rebong., and Acting Phil. Center Manager DCG Melita Thomeczek. |
