Pacita Abad: I Have One Million Things to Say: Curated by Joselina Cruz and Pio Abad, MCAD Manila
Past exhibition
Overview
Anilao at its best, 1986
Oil, acrylic, mirrors, plastic buttons and rhinestones on stitched and padded canvas
116 x 125 in
295 x 318 cm
295 x 318 cm
There are no easy categories for Pacita Abad. The exhibition Pacita Abad: A Million Things to Say, hopefully allows for a more detailed consideration of her work and its expansive contemporaneity. Abad's understanding of the idea of the global preceeded many of her contemporaries, a complex understanding often disguised under the weight of colour, material, and her persona. In 2002, Abad said of how she goes about working on her art: "I think global, not racial. I go out, learn the wider horizon, develop and evolve..." Such a reflection can only come from, in Abad's case, her itinerancy, her continuous crossing of countries and cultures, plotting the variables and coordinates across a map while shaping a multiplicity of narratives rarely seen today.
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Installation Views
Works
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Anilao at its best, 1986Oil, acrylic, mirrors, plastic buttons and rhinestones on stitched and padded canvas116 x 125 in
295 x 318 cm -
Dumaguete's underwater garden, 1987Oil, acrylic, glitter, gold thread, buttons, lace, sequins on stitched and padded can85 x 118 in
216 x 300 cm -
Hundred Islands, 1989Oil, acrylic, glitter, gold thread, buttons, lace, sequins on stitched and padded canvas72 x 94 in
183 x 239 cm -
My fear of night diving, 1985Oil, acrylic, mirrors, plastic buttons, rhinestones on stitched and padded canvas130 x 170 in
330 x 432 cm -
Puerto Galera II, 1983Acrylic, buttons, rhinestones, painted cloth on stitched and padded canvas100 x 98 in
254 x 249 cm -
Sepoc wall, 1985Oil, acrylic, mirrors and buttons on stitched and padded canvas116 x 112 in
295 x 285 cm -
Shallow gardens of Apo Reef, 1986Oil, acrylic, mirrors, plastic buttons, cotton yarn, rhinestones on stitched and padded canvas132 x 137 in
335 x 348 cm -
Sampaloc walls, 1985Acrylic, mirrors, buttons on stitched and padded canvas71 x 98 in
180 x 249 cm -
The sky is falling, the sky is falling, 1998Oil, plastic buttons and beads, painted cloth on stitched and padded canvas106 x 118 in
270 x 300 cm -
Through the looking glass, 1996Oil, acrylic, sequins, plastic buttons on stitched and padded canvas209 x 59 in
531 x 150 cm -
I have one million things to say, 2002Oil, painted muslin cloth stitched on canvas96 x 71 in
244 x 180 cm -
Colors of my dream, 2002Oil, painted cloth stitched on canvas98 x 71 in
249 x 180 cm -
The sparks, the heat and the glow, 1998Oil, acrylic, buttons, sequins, painted and dyed cloth stitched on canvas83 x 58 in
211 x 147 cm -
Blue, 2002Oil, painted cloth stitched on canvas91 x 59 in
231 x 150 cm -
Put a lime in my coconut, 2002Oil, painted batik and printed cloth stitched on canvas99 x 71 in
251 x 180 cm -
L.A. Liberty, 1992Acrylic, cotton yarn, plastic buttons, mirrors, gold thread, painted cloth on stitched and padded canvas94 x 58 in
239 x 147 cm -
Bacongo VII, 1987Acrylic, cowrie shells, plastic buttons, mirrors, rick rack ribbons, rhinestones stitched on silk screened, padded canvas100 x 59 in
254 x 150 cm -
Masai Man, 1982Acrylic, plastic beads, rick rack ribbons, painted cloth on stitched and padded canvas80 x 56 in
203 x 142 cm -
Bacongo III, 1986Acrylic on stitched, silk screened and padded canvas103 x 60 in
262 x 152 cm -
Bacongo VI, 1986Acrylic on stitched, silk screened and padded canvas105 x 61 in
267 x 155 cm -
Endless blues, 2001Oil, painted cloth stitched on canvas101 x 73 in
258 x 186 cm -
European Mask, 1990Acrylic on stitched, silk screened and padded canvas103 x 60 in
260 x 150 cm -
Abstract EmotionsRecluse, 1995
Press
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Long Pushed to the Margins, Pacita Abad’s Art About the Immigrant Experience Gets Global Recognition
Alex Greenberger, ARTnews, April 15, 2021 This link opens in a new tab. -
Pacita Abad (Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila; Curated By Joselina Cruz And Pio Abad)
Pauline J. Yao, ArtForum, December 1, 2018 This link opens in a new tab.
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Pacita Abad: A Million Things to Say Share
Carol Wang, The Artling, July 4, 2018 This link opens in a new tab. -
Hungry to create: re-exploring the work of Filipino Pacita Abad – artist profile
Javelyn Ramos, Art Radar, June 24, 2018 This link opens in a new tab.
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Pacita Abad: the global Filipino artist who had a million things to say
Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman, Business World, June 6, 2018 This link opens in a new tab. -
A Million Things to Say: Pacita Abad
Josephine V. Roque, ArtAsiaPacific, May 1, 2018 This link opens in a new tab.
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Pacita Abad: Still here, unraveling minds
R. C. Ladrido, Vera Files, April 21, 2018 This link opens in a new tab. -
An important show of Pacita Abad's trapuntos reveal her discipline behind the exuberance
Jerome Gomez, ABS-CBN, April 19, 2018 This link opens in a new tab.
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Conversation | Curator and director, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila: Joselina Cruz
Stephanie Bailey, Ocula, April 13, 2018 This link opens in a new tab. -
Pio Abad on Pacita Abad: ‘A Million Things to Say’
Eric S. Caruncho, Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 8, 2018 This link opens in a new tab.