Boholano artist's exhibit in Berlin

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The Philippine Embassy in Berlin reported to the Department of

Foreign Affairs that as part of the Asia-Pacific Week 2005, an exhibit
by Filipino visual artist Noel Gene Lungay, which portrays emotional
content and Filipino cultural substance, was opened on Sept. 19 at
the Philippine Embassy in Berlin Chancery.

Ambassador to Germany Minerva Jean Falcon, who officially opened

the exhibit entitled "Kapaw . . . Echoes of the Sea Children," said that
"Mr. Lungay is one of the few Asian artists who, despite interactions
with the European art community, has retained the Asian touch and
emphasizes adherence to root culture and it art."

The artworks, oil on canvas and terracotta figures, about sea nomads
in the Asia-Pacific region are visual interpretations of the artist's
experiences with Badjaos or Philippine sea nomads, where he tries to
show certain parallelisms between their interactions with their natural
environment and the urbanized societies. These artworks show
certain conflicting aspects of primitive cultures, which are stiff
clinging to their preserved traditions, despite living and mingling in
the modernized global society. They also show the skill and style of
the artist, as well as the emotional content and cultural substance
that the artist feels toward his subjects.

Lungay's recent artworks portray the artist's sensitive ability to derail

light and color on a specific scheme, and the heightened visual
perception that allow him to freely move through art on experimental
levels in modern realism. Such levels include eagle perspectives and
underwater scene with subjects purely retained from memory.
Lungay has been residing in the State of Hesse since 2004, and has
had four exhibitions in Germany since 2004. In a recent art
competition, he won the first prize "Kunstwegen II" from the city of
Eschwege.
The culmination of the Asia-Pacific Weeks is the closing concert of
Philippine performing artist Grace Nono and her ensemble.

THE ARTWORKS

In his exhibition, the Philippine artist Noel, Gene' B. Lungay visualize

culture and myths of Badjaos, Philippine sea-nomads, revealing their
life between modernity and primitivism, technology and tradition.
Oil paintings and sculptures reflect the artist's personal childhood
experiences with Badjaos, and later from his immersion with
fisherfolk in his home province. His chosen isolation enabled him to
create unique culture-based artforms with substance and feeling for
his subjects.

His visual projection is impressive like his play with light and color in
varying contrasts. He experiments in perception, painting bird-eye
and underwater perspectives from memory.

Kapaw . . . in Neo-realism and impressionism shows complimentary

tropical colours and dark skinned characters in the golden island sun,
and plunged into the blue-green depths of the Pacific.