It has taken the Alliance Française de Manille on the occasion of the French cultural agency’s centenary to remind art lovers of the prodigious art of Allan V. Cosio. We are talking here of his solo exhibit, “Still in Awe of Nature,” running until Feb. 25 at AFM’s Total Gallery.Consisting of some 30 large-scale nature abstractions on canvas left freely hanging without the wooden frames, the exhibit is very impressive.
Considering Cosio is 75, the feat is nothing less than staggering. Or as a nod to the French celebration, nothing less than Napoleonic.A versatile artist, Cosio’s work runs the gamut of styles and genres; he’s excelled in both representational and abstraction and melded both seamlessly.
That Cosio expresses “awe” and wonder at the marvels of nature across a series of monumental canvases should reaffirm nature’s inexhaustible power to move the human soul to expressive heights. Cosio with Alliance Française officer Vincent Robin, Ivi Avellana-Cosio and Cid Reyes —PHOTOS BY LESTER BABIERA
It is to the credit of Cosio that his creative soul remains open to the stirrings of the spirit that nature embodies in all its forms, colors and contours, which the artist promptly transposes in his dramatic canvases in all their awesome naked glory. INQAlliance Française de Manille is at 209 Nicanor Garcia Street , Bel-Air II, Makati City.
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