Eulalio Fabie de Silva

Artist Statement

 

Inspiration (exhale) is about the passion. From the root word: INSPIRED, it is really:

 

• IN - SPIRED (Spirit)

 

That means that as an artist, my passion is rooted on being in-line, in-sync, in-congruence with my spirit. The highest realization that we all can attain is the awareness and cultivation of our spirit.

 

As much as it is the hyperbole of our own existence, it is also as much the banality. Meaning, anything and everything under the sun, so to speak – is inspiring because it is as much part of us.

 

Thus at any given moment, conditions, circumstances and parameters in our life ...whether emotional, intellectual, visual, aural, and other sensory stimulations are inspirations to me.

 

The paintings produced out of these are figures in their unguarded moments such as writing, standing, sipping coffee, sitting....etc. Nothing “glamorous”but the little things most often overlooked.

 

To me, these are inspiring because it present moments in our lives that don’t need preparation or a psyching up to see, feel, touch and understand them. These are the behind the scenes moments and environment that many won’t talk about.

 

I feel these scenes and show them by my expressive use of brush marks, colors and senses of movement on my canvases. These are the exploration and ex­pression part that transcend the concept, emotion or feelings.The process of work itself and the formality of painting is in itself an inspiration to me. The concepts, emotions or feelings are the launching pad while the nitty-gritty drips and strokes of painting takes over, thus the CONCEPTUAL and the FORMAL marriage being witnessed as a participant before and during the creation, is utopia.

 

The whole experience then becomes the pleasure and bane of painting. The yins and yangs of life as a macrocosm in my work.

 

With every work I finish, is the hope and realization of the simplicity of life I have. I exist as a participant in this speck of dust called life as a minuscule artist show­ing those fleeting moments from the wheels of life.

 

Waiting To Meditate Series

 

Inspired by recent meditations of ourselves as light beings with the physical bodies, the works in this series are expressions as well as explorations of that energy, light and dilemma.

 

Subtle humor rests within the title in itself as a double-entendre in which seeing ourselves as hesitant beings not yet becoming towards our realization that we are already light creatures – meaning that we were already “created in the image of God or creator.”

 

Therefore “waiting” is an enigmatic and self-created symbolism by us. This self-fabrication is what separates us from those already self-realized such as the sages, the holies and/or the simple beings who professed simplicity in life in knowing that we are one with our surroundings.

With the undertones of Buddhist / Taoists within these pieces, her surroundings shows the splendor of nature or the banalities of the urban space or tenements - in one’s bedroom or living room space.

 

Her hopeful assimilation is another issue wherein she is forever existing physi­cally while her mind and emotion wanders to meditate “on herself.” Putting attention and even pressure upon herself to be one within herself and her sur­roundings.

 

If anything, these pieces are meant to parody ourselves in the midst of our busy lives whether we are in the ‘rat race’ to upend someone in the professional and corporate ladder or simply busy with our family lives.Like a detached actor in a play – on her soliloquy.

 

Waiting for what? Waiting for whom? Or is she really waiting?

 

Biography

 

Born the 6th of June 1968 in Manila, Philippines, Eulalio Fabie Silva, III was named after his internationally acclaimed Philippine artist father. Growing up withiinartistic environment, helped him set himself in the footsteps of his father in the endeavor of the visual arts.

 

Eulalio, the first of 4 siblings of the elder artist, emigrated to the United States in 1980 and later continued his quest to become an artist while being educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989. De Silva has continued exhibiting in various group shows around Chicago while serving as a curator/exhibitor at the North Lakeside Cultural Center of Chicago during the early 90s. He has exhibited to make his own indelible mark in cre­ating his own genres and compositions based on visual observations of land­scapes and figures amidst their emotional or existential life. He taps on the famed Gauguin’s ever questioning stance: D’où Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous (Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?)...the question of our own identity, our immediate surroundings and other beings.

 

De Silva’s main influences are from the plein-air artists and abstract expression­ists of the 50s and 60s that favor the formal qualities of a painting processes of building then rebuilding, creating then defacing while giving importance on expressing the internal turmoil and triumphs through brushstrokes and color.

Signing his work “Eulalio Fabie de Silva” set himself separate yet descended from his father while having the same name and endeavor on the arts while acknowledges his mother’s maiden name “Fabie” – a tradition inherited from the Spanish culture that occupied his homeland, the Philippines for 350 years. “De Silva” is from the original surname before it was “shortened”. Thus the sym­bolic gesture correspond to the “new” name signify a new outlook in life as a person and as an artist.

 

De Silva is married to Roseanne Rasmussen of Niagara Falls, NY is an aspiring poet of her own who recently published her poem “The Homeless Man” with other poets in the anthology entitled: “ETERNAL HEARTLAND”.

 

Michael Patrick Silva, their lone offspring is a potential artist/chef/inventor at 13 years old who won the Best of Show, 1st Prize (Kindergarten - High School), Best in Painting and Critics’ Choice award in Bloomingdale Art Museum at the age of 4. He is now a 7th grader at Aspira-Haugan Middle School.

 

De Silva is slated for his major solo art exhibition at Benedictine University at Lisle, IL in September of 2011.

 

Bio

Born the 6th of June 1968 in Manila, Philippines, Eulalio Fabie Silva, III was named after his internationally acclaimed Philippine artist father. Growing up withiinartistic environment, helped him set himself in the footsteps of his father in the endeavor of the visual arts.Eulalio, the first of 4 siblings of the elder artist, emigrated to the United States in 1980 and later continued his quest to become an artist while being educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989. De Silva has continued exhibiting in various group shows around Chicago while serving as a curator/exhibitor at the North Lakeside Cultural Center of Chicago during the early 90s. He has exhibited to make his own indelible mark in cre­ating his own genres and compositions based on visual observations of land­scapes and figures amidst their emotional or existential life. He taps on the famed Gauguin’s ever questioning stance: D’où Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous (Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?)...the question of our own identity, our immediate surroundings and other beings.

De Silva’s main influences are from the plein-air artists and abstract expression­ists of the 50s and 60s that favor the formal qualities of a painting processes of building then rebuilding, creating then defacing while giving importance on expressing the internal turmoil and triumphs through brushstrokes and color.

Signing his work “Eulalio Fabie de Silva” set himself separate yet descended from his father while having the same name and endeavor on the arts while acknowledges his mother’s maiden name “Fabie” – a tradition inherited from the Spanish culture that occupied his homeland, the Philippines for 350 years. “De Silva” is from the original surname before it was “shortened”. Thus the sym­bolic gesture correspond to the “new” name signify a new outlook in life as a person and as an artist.

De Silva is married to Roseanne Rasmussen of Niagara Falls, NY is an aspiring poet of her own who recently published her poem “The Homeless Man” with other poets in the anthology entitled: “ETERNAL HEARTLAND”.

Michael Patrick Silva, their lone offspring is a potential artist/chef/inventor at 13 years old who won the Best of Show, 1st Prize (Kindergarten - High School), Best in Painting and Critics’ Choice award in Bloomingdale Art Museum at the age of 4. He is now a 7th grader at Aspira-Haugan Middle School.

De Silva is slated for his major solo art exhibition at Benedictine University at Lisle, IL in September of 2011.