- Authors: Menene Gras Balaguer (Ed.), Juan Guardiola, Kevin Power, Fernando Castro Flórez, Chon A. Noriega, David Burrows, Gaston Damag, Sandra Danicke, Jennifer P. Borum, Fernando Huici, Kenneth Baker, Curro González, Pedro G. Romero , Eduardo Arroyo, Guillermo Pérez Villalta, Victoria Combalía, Don, Hilda M. Rodríguez.
- Spanish | English
- 978-84-932950-1-9
- €50,00 | Soft Cover | 24 x 28.3 cm | 406 page
- SOLD OUT
- Casa Asia | Barcelona, 2005
The title of this book, “Bastards of Misrepresentation”, is the result of a play on words whose union lends itself in the context of the work of the Filipino artist Manuel Ocampo to multiple associations necessary to access a certain understanding of his work. The bastard is the monster with which Ocampo identifies as a Filipino by birth and a hybrid of nationalities as opposite as Spanish and American, or Malaysian and Chinese or others, and who was ultimately domesticated by “his colonial owners,” as he says the artist himself. The statement “Bastards of misrepresentation” in turn allows the bastard to be identified as an illegitimate child and as a degenerate. In the same way, history is not history, but history for Ocampo. A story that does not necessarily have as its object the veracity of the facts that are told, but rather the facts themselves. It is the first complete monograph dedicated to the career of this artist, coinciding with the exhibition he held. Casa Asia in 2005.
For more information, contact email [email protected].
