Two Pinoy artists to display original, reproduction paintings at Davao airport
Two Davao local artists will display at least 20 of their original and reproduction paintings at the Davao City International Airport on August 8.
Paiter Victor Secuya, along with artist Kublai Millan, said the activity with the theme “Spirit of Davao’, would be a prelude to the week-long Kadayawan sa Dabaw celebration from August 17 to 23 this year.
Secuya said he had just come back from Tokyo, Japan “where everything is so urbanized and all roads are smooth as silk.”
He said it was the same thing in Canada where every building had a sculpture and everything was clean.
When he came back to Davao, he said, what welcomed him were the wires all over the electric posts and everything chaotic unimaginable in a first world city.
“We artists are faced with the challenge of making Davao City Paris of the Philippines. Davao has a lot of potentials but not in the level of the first world,” he said.
However, he said the burden of exploring Davao City’s potential and making it the center of arts in the country lies in the shoulders of the local artists.
“It is our responsibility to move Davao’s art scene because if we will not do it then who will,” Secuya said.
Secuya said the city could be the center of arts to include theater, dance, architecture, painting and sculpture in the country if the Dabawenyos only work together “with a laser-beam kind of discipline”.
“While the Kadayawan is something great for the city it is the way we live, wake up early to clean up our surroundings and practice discipline that we become at par with highly urbanized cities,” he said.
