Pancho Piano
finished Bachelors degree in Economics at the University of Nueva Caceres
(1978), and took a degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines as
a Jose Joya Scholar (1984-1987) the first Filipino Artistto exhibit Leather Art
in the Philippines.
Pancho has
executed numerous murals and stained glass designs in various cities and
municipalities through out the Bicol Region, such as Naga City, Daraga,
Guinobatan, Camalig, Polanngui, Ligao, Pio Duran, Sto Domingo, Legaspi City,
Tabaco City and Boracay; Pampanga, Quezon City, Mandaluyong, Pasig City,
Caloocan City and the Mindanao Region, as well as in Japan, Saipan and Palau.
Pancho’s painitngs and stained glass designs focus on Bicolano Myths and
traditions.
He has mounted more than Thirty solo exhibitions and participated
in over 150 grouped exhibitions in the Philippines, Japan, Saipan and the
United States, France, Austria , Germany, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Brunei, Georgia,
Innsbruck Australia, Bratislava Slovakia.
Pancho has
won over 10 major national competitions in the Philippines, including Finalist
at the 1997 AAP Centennial Mural Painitng Competition, and the 1998 AAP
Centennial Painting competition. Pancho was given Artist of the Year Awards for
the total of twelve times by various
institutions. Pancho Piano was was also featured in television network ABS
CBN,and his work has been featured in 10 coffee table book publication.
He has
traveled extensively to United States and Europe these past few years. According to Alice Guillermo “these
voyages opening for him new perspectives of space and the universe. For it is
from his recent travels that he has produced an abstract series of paintings,
which he has assembled for the present show. In these, the artist conveys the
original experience of travel, expansion, and freedom.
Pancho Piano is the exemplar of
the Filipino Artist truly speaking of his land and people. Join Pancho Piano as
he opens his One Man Show entitled “ Voyaging in Luminous Space” on May 24,
2016 around 6PM at the Art Center SM Megamall. By Louise Viola
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