Danny Castillones Sillada : His Aesthetics
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  • BIOGRAPHY
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    • Photos of the Artist >
      • Sigh of the Soul
      • From Priesthood to the Art World
      • "The Temptation" (with Rachel Lobangco)
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  • CURRICULUM VITAE
    • Education
    • Citations & Awards
    • Solo Exhibitions
    • Selected Group Exhibitions
    • Selected Public & Corporate Collections
    • Bibliography
    • Selected Reviews (Newspapers & Magazines)
    • Selected Literary Publication (Poetry)
    • Selected Published Articles & Essays
    • Live Art Performances
    • Discography
    • Filmography (short shorts and short docu-films)
  • SELECTED REVIEWS
    • The Surrealistic Reality of Danny Sillada (By Shar Matingka)
    • I Know Why the Caged Birds Cry (By Cid Reyes)
    • Visual Trope Strips Bare the Soul (By Constantino Tejero)
    • Danny Sillada: a Passion to Create (By Jacqueline L. Ong)
    • Danny Sillada’s Parable of Many Talents (By Kristine Joy L. Dabbay)
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    • Interview (Surrealism in the Philippines)
    • ‘Uncharted Border’ in New York
  • RECENT WORKS
  • PAINTINGS
    • Oil on Canvas
    • Oil & Watercolor on Paper
    • Black, White & Red on Canvas
  • DRAWINGS
    • Sketches of Caraga
    • Surreal Drawings (pen & ink on paper)
    • Still Life (Ball Point)
    • Kitten & Goldfish (rapidograph on paper)
  • SCULPTURE & INSTALLATION ART
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
    • Existential
    • Portrait of Innocence (Aesthetics of Collocation)
    • Portrait of My Town (Cateel)
  • DESIGN (Fashion & Functional)
    • Furniture (Sillada's Chair)
    • Decorative & Functional Product
    • Fashion (Organic Materials)
  • MIXED MEDIA
  • ILLUSTRATION
    • Haiku on the Land of Promise
    • Garbage City
  • LIVE ART PERFORMANCES (2005-2013)
  • PHILOSOPHICAL ARTICLES
    • Truth, Language, Compassion, and the 'Danger of Single Story'
    • The Pathological Migration of Truth in a Post Po-Mo Society
    • The Poetic Ascent of Hope Beyond Life
    • The Poetic Act of Giving and Receiving
    • Despair, Suicide & Aesthetics
    • Intellectual Stimulation & the Essence of a Woman
  • MUSIC (Audio & Video)
    • Ethnic Music / Videos >
      • "Canta para Kanmo" (A "dawot" or love song)
      • "Pagpanao Ng Kanak Pinangga" (Song about life and death)
      • "Ya Uli Da Si Bodie" (Ethnic Blues)
      • "Hain Yang Kanak Bay" (Where is My Home)
    • Digital Music / Videos >
      • "Bugsay ng Bangsi" (The Paddle of Fishing Boat)
    • Audio Music
  • POETRY
    • Poems with Illustration & Video >
      • The Unbearable (Short Poems & Drawings)
      • Trilingual Poem (Mandaya, Pilipino & English)
      • "Mga Hagas ni Aliwagwag"
      • "Canta Para Kanmo"
      • "Gatagad kang Ide"
      • "Gapa-Anod Anod"
  • FILM (Short & Documentary)
    • Short Short Films >
      • The Crack on My Wall
      • Digger's Story
      • Pago Destino
  • JOURNAL & MEMOIRS
    • Stories And Genesis Of Hope In The Garden
    • Birthing And Birth Anniversary: A Family And Societal Affair
    • The Metaphor of Dave Pitin
    • The Road to Cateel
    • Something About Sarah & Her Art
    • A Tribute to Mindanaoan Artist: Max Adlao
  • ARCHIVE (1996-2012)
    • 2012 >
      • 2012: Surrealism in the Philippines
      • 2012: Danny Sillada Bio: Spoken Herb Festival 2012
    • 2011: Symbolism, Culture, and Politics in Aesthetics
    • 2010: Surrealistic Reality of Danny Castillones Sillada
    • 2009 >
      • 2009: Uncharted Border in New York
      • 2009: Controversial Subjects Never Faze Danny Sillada
    • 2008 >
      • 2008: More Art in Public Spaces
      • 2008: A Tribute to Offy Garcia: Art, Poetry & Music
    • 2007: Danny Sillada Parable of Many Talents
    • 2006 >
      • 2006: DANNY C. SILLADA: A FILIPINO RENAISSANCE MAN
      • 2006: Sillda’s 8th One-Man Show with Live Art Performances and Poetry Reading
      • 2006: D.C. Sillada's Convergence
      • 2006: Danny Sillada a Passion to Create
    • 2005 >
      • 2005: Visual Trope Strips Bare the Soul
      • 2005: The Sensational Oeuvre of the Former Man of God
      • 2005: Political Turmoil and a Former Seminarian's Art and Poetry
      • 2005: Painting the Political Crisis
      • 2005: Images Upon the Rock
    • 2004: I Know Why the Caged Bird Cries
    • 2003 >
      • 2003: Journey from the Priesthood to the Artworld
      • 2003: Davao Painter Sillada Returns to Roots
    • 2000: The Metaphors of Dreams and Existence
    • 1996: Sillada Returns from the Landscapes of Nightmares
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Selected Published Essays & Articles
(Art, Culture, Literature, Philosophy, and Travel)


Catalogue (Art)

2012

Sillada, Danny Castillones. "Bright Days Are Upon Us" (Catalogue Note and Provenance on Jon Jaylo Painting). Hong Kong: Sotheby’s Catalogue, October 7, 2012. Print.

Sillada, Danny Castillones. “Duo: Jon Jaylo” (Catalogue Note and Poetry on Jon Jaylo paintings). Makati (Philippines): Ayala Museum and West Gallery, 2012. Print.

2011

Sillada, Danny Castillones. "Song for Alice" (Catalogue Note and Provenance on Jon Jaylo Painting) Hong Kong: Sotheby’s Catalogue, April 4, 2011. Print.

Sillada, Danny Castillones. "Once Upon a Dreamer’s Glimpse" (Catalogue Note and Provenance on Jon Jaylo Painting). Hong Kong: Sotheby’s Catalogue, October 3, 2011. Print.


2008

Sillada, Danny Castillones. “Figuring Abstraction: The Shifting of Reality in Lindslee’s Art.” Makati, Philippines): The Drawing Room, April 12, 2008. Print. 

Daily Paper (Manila Bulletin)

2013

The Adrenaline Rush at ‘Art for Humanity’ Online Auction (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: January 7, 2013).

2012 

The Unbearable (Part 2) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: December 2, 2012).

The Unbearable (Part 1) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: November 25, 2012).

The Nostalgic and Romantic Art of Loreto Racuya (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: November 11, 2012).

To Live Amid the Inconvenience of the World: An open letter to my children (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture:November 4, 2012)

Carlos Arellanos Green Art and the Art of Empowerment by Former Beauty Queens (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: October 21, 2012).

Jon Jaylo The Vanishing Folklore and the Art of Filipino Surrealist (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: October 7, 2012).

Stories And Genesis Of Hope In The Garden (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: August 26, 2012).

The Heron’s Secret: Maxine Syjuco as a Performance Artist (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: June 18, 2012).

The ‘Question,’ Self-Critical Faith, and The Polarity of Good and Evil in Man’s Being (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture:July 1, 2012).

The Corona Paradox (The Truth and the Elegance of Reasoning) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: June 11, 2012).

Birthing And Birth Anniversary: A Family And Societal Affair (A Birthday Reflection) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: May 7, 2012).

Cesare A.X. Syjuco: Thinking And Creating Within And Outside The Box: The Quiddity of ‘Concept’ and ‘Object’ in Conceptual Art (Part 2) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: April 23, 2012).

Cesare A.X. Syjuco: Thinking And Creating Within And Outside The Box: The Quiddity of ‘Concept’ and ‘Object’ in Conceptual Art (Part 1) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: March 26, 2012).

Noli Aurillo, The Portrait Of A Musician's Musician (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: March 5, 2012).

2011 

Truth, Language, Compassion, and the Danger of Single Story (Part 2) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: December 5, 2011).

Truth, Language, Compassion, and the Danger of Single Story (Part 1) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: November 28, 2011).

San Victor Island’s Ineffable Treasure (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: November 27, 2011).

The Conceived, Lived and Shared "Lush Life" of Alfred "Krip" Yuson (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture:November 14, 2011).

Five Former Beauty Queens amidst the Convoluted World of Art (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: August 1, 2011).

The Joy and Misery of Boredom (From Mass Culture and Existentialist Perspective) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: March
21, 2011).

2010 

The Poetic Ascent of Hope Beyond Life (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: December 13, 2010).

The Existential Appeal of 'Soloism' in Aesthetics (The Eccentric Art of Francisco Pellicer Viri) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: December 6, 2010).

The Metaphor of Life against the Current, between Arrival and Departure (The Mysterious Whirl of Forces in the Universe)  (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: November 8, 2010).

What We Don’t Know About God  (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: October 25, 2010).

Transcendent Happiness, the Summum Bonum and Sisyphean Perspective (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: September 26, 2010).

Existential Question, Evolution of Ideas & the Equation of Life Forms in the Universe (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: April 11, 2010).

The Good and the Bad Citizen (I’m tired of being a Filipino) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: April 4, 2010).

Meaning: Lost and Found
 (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: March 28, 2010).

2009 

What is Life without Waiting? (The Metaphysics of Waiting) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: December 27, 2009).

A Reason to Love (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: November 24, 2009).

An emerging art district, Cubao Expo & My Breathing Space (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: November 1, 2009). 

Something about Sarah & Her Art (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: September 13, 2009).

What are Poets for in a Post Po-Mo Society? (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: September 6, 2009).

Abueva and the New Sisa Murals at the National Center for Mental Health (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: July 13, 2009).

William Yu and His Art of Divine Worship (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: May 4, 2009).

The Metaphor of Dave Pitin (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: April 26, 2009).


2008 

The Beauty of Despair (As Expressed in Art, Poetry & Philosophy) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: December 15, 2008).

Revelation of Secrets & the Aesthetics of ‘Syjuco Tres Marias’ (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: September 8, 2008).

The Pathological Migration of Truth in a Post Po-Mo Society (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: August 25, 2008).

The Road to Cateel (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: August 15, 2008).

The Poetic Act of Giving and Receiving (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: July 28, 2008).

Intellectual Stimulation & the Essence of a Woman (The Artist’s Tribute to Women) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: July 7, 2008).

Aesthetics of Collocation & the Women of Bencab (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: June 30, 2008).

Daughters of Eve and its Aesthetic Incongruity in Philippine Cinema (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: June 9, 2008).

Despair, Suicide & Aesthetics (The Parallelisms of Vincent van Gogh and Sylvia Plath Aesthetics) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: June 2, 2008).

Lives and Loves of Artists and their Nude Models (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture:May 19, 2008).

The Poetic Revelation in Language and Culture: The Vision of Sonny Villafania
 (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: May 12, 2008).

In the Evening of His Existence (The Laughing Christ of a Mindanaoan Painter Max Adlao) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: May 5, 2008).

Weapons of Mass Destruction in Cesare & Jean Marie Syjuco’s Aesthetics (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: April 21, 2008).

Figuring Abstraction (The Shifting of Reality in Lindslee’s Art) (Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle Arts & Culture: April 2008).


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