WALK past the glass panels of Richard Koh Fine Art and you may do a double take upon passing what looks like a packaging hung on the wall.
After closer inspection, the object in question is revealed to be a painting by Annie Cabigting entitled 102 Wrapped Painting 1968, 315 x 176 x 23 Tarpaulin, Rope & Wood (After Christo).
The artwork is based on a photograph of a piece of wrapped painting by Christo, who along with his wife Jeanne-Claude are famous for wrapping man-made and natural objects and buildings in reams of fabric, thus creating giant public art.
Intriguing view: Cabigting standing next to one of her paintings entitled “Office Baroque 1977 (After Gordon Matta-Clark)”. It is one of six thought-provoking artworks by 40-year-old Cabigting at her latest exhibition called Eccentric Windows.
The painting major, who earned her Fine Art degree from University of the Philippines’ College of Fine Art, referenced several artists and their works for her artworks, thus giving the audience a reference point into a multi-layered lesson in art history.
“I am continuing the artists’ work but making them my own. I give my own spin on their work by presenting the same subject in a different form,” said Cabigting.
“I hope to also arouse people’s curiosity and explore more about the work by these incredible artists. Colours were limited to black and white to minimise distraction.”
Cabigting said that visually, House 1993 Installation View, Corner of Grave Road and Roman Road, London (After Rachel Whiteread) is her favourite.
It is a painting of House, an installation by Whiteread created by making a concrete cast of the inside of an entire abandoned house.
Whiteread is an English artist best known for her sculptures that typically take the form of casts.
Thought provoking: Guests at the “Eccentric Windows” exhibition chatting about Cabigting’s artwork, “House 1993 Installation View, Corner of Grave Road and Roman Road, London (After Rachel Whiteread)”. Also featured are two pieces inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark’s intriguing artworks - View of Office Baroque (After Gordon Matta-Clark) and Office Baroque 1977 (After Gordon Matta-Clark).
The American artist and trained architect was famous for his “building cuts,” a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he removed sections of floors, ceilings and walls.
He carved out sections of buildings in order to reveal their hidden constructions, to provide new ways of perceiving space, and to create metaphors for the human condition.
Cabigting pointed out that Matta-Clark’s creations create space by removing objects, while Whiteread’s works are the opposite as they take space by filling objects.
Cabigting’s other two pieces are 159 Magritte Painting. Clairvoyance, Brussels 1939. Charly Herscovici Collection (After Rene Magritte) and This Is Not To Be Looked At (After John Baldessari).
“Clairvoyance referred to the fact that in Magritte’s original work, which was a self-portrait, the Belgian surrealist artist was looking at an egg, but was actually painting a bird in flight,” said Cabigting.
“Magritte was then captured in a photograph of himself painting. This artwork has actually come a full circle as my painting is based on a photograph of a painting.
“This Is Not To Be Looked At was a photo-painting of a magazine cover by American conceptual artist Baldessari.”
Cabigting shared that she puts a lot of thought and process into her work, and incorporates a witty element to make people think, such as by playing around with other artists’ artworks and titles.
Likening paintings as visual windows, Cabigting said it is like looking at a window through the artist’s eyes, hence the exhibition title Eccentric Windows.
“The eccentric element refers to the unusual shapes, frames and subjects in the artworks,” said the petite Filipina.
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