XIII Days of Suicide

Dark Greetings,

It’s been a while since I posted anything here on Deviant Art, it’s because I was busier than ever with our thesis, the AFTERMATH exhibit, our college fair well video, The Gintong SuSi Art Organization, a lot of house parties, our graduation, and other personal matters.

But now, I’m back.

And I’ve got a lot of artworks to share; photos, videos, pencil art, oil paintings. but most of all, I of course, would want to share with you first the oil paintings. This is one oil painting that really had me in a sort of black hole that I had to seriously put all my time and energy to finish. Oh wait, did I say one oil painting? Make it Thirteen.

This is my thesis painting, the only painting I can really call my masterpiece. Well, before I unveil the thirteen oil paintings, I should at least tell you what my thesis topic and title is all about.

Thesis Topic: Suicide

Thesis Title:
“Feast of Their Flesh:
Thirteen Prominent People Who
Had Tendencies Committing Suicide Through
The Artist’s Rendition
On A Series of Oil Painting Panels”

It’s basically about Thirteen prominent people who had tendencies committing suicide. Hence there are Thirteen oil paintings, and every canvas has the size of 6ft. and 10 inches with a total of 6ft. and 130 inches if connected together. It’s pretty weak when viewed in singles, but within each painting lies objects and elements that emphasizes the individual that is in the painting. All the subjects in the painting are painted in the style of Masochism, the style I often used that has the skin of the subject ripped off. in other words, Skinned. Some objects in a painting maybe seen overlapping to the next painting, may be it a pen, whip, book, paper, gun or even one of the subject’s body part. This that not mean that the object that overlapped has no meaning entering another painting territory, it is the exact opposite. The objects will also possess a different meaning once it overlaps and is connected to the story of the individual dominating the 6ft x 10 inches painting. In this way it can all in all be viewed as a whole with all its meanings and all its difference.

This entry is entitled XIII Days of Suicide, that is because for everyday starting today, I will unveil only one painting of the thesis, In this way, viewers can focus on the paintings one at a time. And on the last day, the most important part of the painting is unveiled, it will be on the 18th of APRIL 2007. may there be instances that I might not be able to upload a piece of work, it will be uploaded the next day with two paintings unveiled that day, and so on and so forth if it continues to be out of schedule, but the final unveiling will not be missed on the 18th.

There are a lot of pictures on the internet especially on my Friendster account of the whole painting, however, it is not explained there, it would be best if viewers would wait so that the meaning and the symbolisms are explained well.

This thesis took me about one month to finish making the canvases and the primer, and two months to finish the paintings. and it was exhibited at the Beato Angelico Gallery at The College of Fine Arts and Design at the university of Santo Tomas on February 28th 2007 up to March 10, 2007. The Exhibit title is; THE AFTERMATH. A thesis exhibition of the Fine Arts Painting Students of UST batch 2007.

And now on with the paintings.


+XIII Suicides Daily Update+

April 6, 2007 – Suicide I – Adolf Hitler [link]
April 7, 2007 – Suicide II – Benigno Aquino Jr. [link]
April 8, 2007 – Suicide III - Claudius Nero [link]
April 9, 2007 – Suicide IV - Cleopatra [link]
April 10, 2007 – Suicide V - Pontius Pilate [link]
April 11, 2007 – Suicide VI - Sigmund Freud [link]
April 12, 2007 – Suicide VII - Judas Iscariot [link]
April 13, 2007 – Suicide VIII - Vincent Van Gogh [link]
April 14, 2007 – Suicide IX - Salvador Dali [link]
April 15, 2007 – Suicide X - Jackson Pollock [link]
April 16, 2007 – Suicide XI - Kurt Cobain [link]
April 17, 2007 – Suicide XII - Sen no Rikyu [link]
April 18, 2007 – Suicide XIII - YOU [link]


++ HINDI SILA NAKAPAGHINTAY ++
The XIII SuicideS all in all - [link]

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The Aftermath Thesis Exhibition Opening Photos of the XIII SuicideS – [link]

The XIII Suicides Canvas Making Documentary - [link]


Exhibited at the Beato Angelico Gallery UST Espana Manila + February 28 – March 10, 2007

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To everyone who died, not only by suicide, but also for those who died in an accident, murdered or in their sleep, the book I write exists for you and all of what you did before your apparent death.

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S.Bless.