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Feb. 18, 2023
Ivi Avellana-Cosio (b. 1942)
Est: ₱120,000 - ₱156,000
Ivi Avellana-Cosio (b. 1942) Sarabande II signed and dated 1987 (lower right) acrylic on canvas 36" x 36" (91 cm x 91 cm) Accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist confirming the authenticity of this lot PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Makati City EXHIBITED: Ayala Museum, Makati City, September 1990 I vi Avellana-Cosio is a critically acclaimed Filipina artist. More than being the daughter of two eminent National Artists, Lamberto Avellana (first double awardee for Film and Theater) and Daisy Hontiveros (Theater), Avellana-Cosio holds a dazzling candle of her own. Growing up in a family of respected artists became a nurturing catalyst for her creativity to flourish. Avellana-Cosio is a multi-faceted artist; she is a stage performer, writer, photographer, and painter. She has participated in over 250 group shows in the Philippines and abroad and 36 solo exhibitions since 1987. The International Biographical Society in Cambridge, England, has included Avellana-Cosio in several of its listings: International Who’s Who of Women (1992), Top 100 Professionals (2012), and Top 100 Artists (2017). She was a Project Grantee of the CCP in 1992 and was awarded the prestigious Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan (for painting) by the City of Manila in 1999. AvellanaCosio’s works are in private and corporate collections in the Philippines, the US, Germany, Hong Kong, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia. Her work Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (1985) forms part of the CCP collection. Avellana-Cosio is known for her hardedged abstraction evocative of the works of Arturo Luz, Fernando Zóbel, and Lee Aguinaldo, of which she emerged as the pioneering Filipina of the said style. This creative flair is demonstrated in this work titled Sarabande II. The Sarabande is an enigmatic dance form; its origins are basked in uncertainty. According to various old sources, the dance may have originated in Spain, the Americas (New World), or the Middle East. However, the oldest documented reference to the Sarabande was in a 1539 poem titled Vida y tiempo de Maricastaña, written by Fernando de Guzmán Mejía in Panama, in which he referred to a specific dance, the zarabanda. The Sarabande was popular in Spain and its colonies in the 16th and 17th centuries. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Sarabande “was apparently danced by a double line of couples to castanets and lively music.” In the 17th century, the dance spread to Italy and France, becoming a slow court dance. Being a woman of the arts, AvellanaCosio had likely encountered the Sarabande in one of her creative excursions. In this work, she evokes the enigmatic nature of the Sarabande. The composition is austere, and three colors dominate: peach, orange, and gray. AvellanaCosio’s symbolic use of colors represents the triple musical meter used in the Sarabande. Her ingenious blending of a somber color (gray) and vibrant colors (peach and orange) results in a harmonious contrast. It exudes a dramatic yet dynamic atmosphere, representing the two facets of the Sarabande: lively and stately. Moreover, the pastel quality of the artist’s palette evokes an air of quietude, epitomizing the mysteriousness of the Sarabande— spirited on the one hand and solemn on the other, yet both pleasing to the senses. (A.M.)
Leon Gallery
Jul. 30, 2016
Ivi Avellana-Cosio
Est: ₱40,000 - ₱52,000
Ivi Avellana-Cosio Ladies Spinning and Weaving (Original by R.Ernst, a 19th C. painting depicting a scene of a house in Baghdad) signed and dated 1990 (lower right and verso) oil on canvas 42” x 61” (107 cm x 155 cm)
Leon Gallery

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