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Exhibition
Nostalgia Presages A Lightness of Being
Exhibiting Artists: Pedro Felix Garcia II
Venue: Utterly Art 20B Mosque Street > venue details
Dates: 14 Jun 2012 - 24 Jun 2012
Like a treasured memoire from yesteryear, the painted world of Pedro Garcia is suffused by a warm sepia which casts a honeyed glow over its faded faces. It is an existence of old-world charm, where gallant men and elegant ladies engage in a dance of courtly manners, amidst the serenades of able musicians and the whispers of attentive waiters in nocturnal ballrooms. Inspired by European modernist artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, some compositions are re-rendered to present tableaux of romantic whimsy. This inward longing for a past that never was sweeps its figures into giddy flights of fancy as they waft in their floating world.
Exhibited Works
 Wedding of Two Cultures (Tribute to Van Gogh)2011 122cm x 189cm |  The Dance of Life (after Munch)2012 122cm x 189cm |  The Reception at the Garden (after Edouard Manet)2012 122cm x 122cm |  The Flying Waiter (inspired by Marc Chagall)2011 91cm x 122cm |
 Re-leaving the Past2011 91cm x 122cm |  The Card PLayers (after Paul Cezanne)2012 91cm x 122cm |  Bliss (after Manet, Titian, Giorgione and Ingres)2012 61cm x 91cm |  Before the Dance at the Wedding (after Henri de Toulouse Lautrec)2012 76cm x 51cm |
 El Maestro2012 61cm x 61cm |  Jealousy (after August Macke)2012 61cm x 61cm |  Still Life with Tea Cup and Tea Pot (after Cezanne)2012 38cm x 61cm total |  Life Goes Around2012 38cm x 61cm total |
 Impressionismo2012 38cm x 61cm total |  Cubisma (after Picasso)2012 38cm x 61cm total |  Theatre in Two Stages2012 38cm x 61cm total |
Artist
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Pedro Felix Garcia II
Philippines
Pedro Felix Garcia II graduated from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in España, Manila with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, major in Painting in 2001. With prizes from a number of prestigious art competitions, such as the Nokia, Shell and AAP (Art Association of the Philippines) Art Awards, he has joined several group exhibitions and will be holding his 10th solo. His works have been included in art fairs at Prague and the Netherlands, and he is presently completing his Master’s degree in Fine A