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TRUTH BEHIND HIS WORKS
(excerpts
from an interview with Art Core Media)
ACM: Your name sounds like a car. Is that
your real name?
Revo: (Laughs)
Yep. That is my given name. My father, who in his early days was
an activist, gave it to me. Revo is a shortcut of revolution.
ACM: Since when did you
start drawing?
Revo: I started
drawing since pre-school. I usually draw cartoon characters on
sheets of paper. I have so many drawings then that my mom used
to bind them for me.
ACM: I'm sure she finds it hard
to bind them now since most of your work is displayed on a large
canvas.
Revo: (Laughs)
ACM: How did your art evolve to
what it is now?
Revo: I believe
that each person has an inert talent since birth, an urge to create
something. Graduating from LCC Fine arts helped me develop the
aesthetic level of my work, like my brush strokes, proper color
combinations and other technical stuff. If my work did evolve,
it is in a manner of my way of thinking and my perception of things
I see as I express it on a medium.
ACM: If you were not an artist,
you would be?
Revo: I think...
a starving philosopher.
ACM: How come?
Revo: Well I
like to debate and argue on things. Everybody has an opinion and
each of it is worth a discussion.
ACM: Describe your art. What makes it original?
Revo: My art
is a dreamy perception sometimes classified as “surreal
art”. Sometimes people tend call it “abstract art”
when they see my non-figurative works. But I prefer my art to
go beyond labels. I’m more concerned with art that transcends
social borders and reflects my inner realities. I guess that makes
my art original.
ACM:
Do you have a favorite piece?
Revo: None.
All art has beauty in itself. A piece of art is a frozen image;
it tells another tale & presents a certain part of history.
That makes it unique since all have different stories to tell.
ACM: What mediums do you use?
Revo: Whatever
materials that's available. I had this show once, where I only
used bond papers & a tech pen for all the artworks. All my
friends thought that I really wanted my work presented using only
these materials. What they didn't know is that I was really short
of cash and all I can produce was sheets of white paper &
my dependable tech pen.
ACM: What happened to the exhibit?
Revo: It did
quite well.
ACM: What contributions can your
art give to the Negrense culture?
Revo: The Negrense
culture is so complex. We have a colorful history, really fun
activities and really good people. It's hard to preserve and summarize
it on a single portrait. Maybe my art can contribute to the vast
Negrense culture by capturing all the good and bad moments and
depicting it honestly on the canvas or in any other mediums.
ACM: Any advice to those aspiring
artists?
Revo: Everybody
has a sense of creativity within them. Just be true to yourself.
If you’re not truthful, then your works will surely fade
away when another design trend comes. Learn to love the process
and share the output.
ACM:
Any last words?
Revo: Money,
prestige and fame are detrimental to the purity of an artwork
and therefore have nothing to with art. Absence of all these things
will not make you less of an artist, rather it is your devotion
to aesthetics that makes you one.
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