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Eduardo Olbés (Manila, 1951) is a Filipino sculptor based in Tepoztlán, Morelos. The work of Olbés is informed by the aesthetic traditions of his native Asia and strongly influenced by his deep studies in the artistic expressions of other cultures. The materials are of paramount importance in his work, highlighting not only their aesthetic qualities but also their historical and cultural implications.

Biography

He arrived in Mexico at the age of 24, after completing studies at the universities of Haverford and Goddard College, in the United States, with a double degree in sculpture and psychology. The last two years of studies he devoted his time to his work in the state asylum and to a sculpture workshop, where he worked direct wood carving under the direction of Peter Ruddick, a disciple of Henry Moore. The Philippines was under a dictatorship at the time, so it was not among his plans to return.

In Mexico, Olbés participated as a paramedic in Dr. Carlos Biro's social medicine program in Ciudad Netzahualcóyotl. Soon after, he also began to teach wood carving at the School of Design and Crafts and studied techniques in wood, stone and metal with the master forger Arturo Ramos. The work of Raúl Valdivieso, a Chilean sculptor, had opened his eyes to sculpture in stone years before, and as an apprentice to cabinetmaker Mario Viel, in Manila, he had been initiated into the rigors of the technical discipline of wood. The enormous variety of stones and native woods and the possibility of working freely were decisive in his vocation and identification with the country and its culture. In 1978 he established his workshop in Tepoztlán. He claims it was the richness of the stones and woods he could find in Mexico, as well as the qualified craftsman that brought him to Mexico in the first place, and then kept him here year after year.^[1]

Exhibitions

In 1984 his pieces of jewelry and sculpture in small format were exhibited in the OMR Gallery, in individual and collective exhibitions, together with Adolfo Riestra, Sergio Hernández and Xavier de la Garza, among others. From 1993 to 2008 he worked for mexican designers and collectors. In 2012 he exhibited in the Franz Mayer Museum the furniture series Evocación Ming. This series expresses his admiration for the Chinese aesthetic and served as a tribute to the Ming Dynasty. The collection, which in Asia was presented as "Sabor a Ming" at the Ayala Museum in Manila in 2015^[2], shows the artist's skill in joining stone and wood, evoking the style of ancient Chinese benches and tables.

His series Narco: Perverse Economic Equations, an exploration of the relationships between drugs, the market and violence, was exhibited at the Museo del Chopo in 2011 under the title of Resistance and later in the Museum of Memory and Tolerance as part of the request of the Civic Alliance of Barak Obama titled Farewell to Arms, and again at the Open Society Drug Policy Museum, at CDMX, 2018.

Other recent exhibitions are Bululs and other oddities, with SilverLens Gallery, Manila, 2016, in which he showed recent work in jade inspired by the indigenous cultures of the Philippines and Mesoamerica; and Celestial Bodies, at the International Airport of Mexico City, in 2015, with large marble erotic clouds. Two of these pieces are now on permanent display at El Charco del Ingenio´s Botanical Garden in San Miguel Allende. In recent years, the sculptor has been featured in a number of collective shows, including FOG Design+Art (San Francisco, 2016), Miami Art Basel: Design Curio (Miami, 2015), and Collective Design (New York, 2015)^[3]

Since 2014, Olbés is working on a project called Dilao, a park that serves as an experimental space of large format sculpture.

External links

References

1. ^Eduardo Olbés - Designers - ADN Galeria
2. ^[https://artbooks.ph/products/eduardo-olbes-sabor-a-ming Eduardo Olbes: Sabor A Ming – artbooks.ph]
3. ^[https://www.incollect.com/artists/eduardo-olb-s?artist=51063&type=artist Artist Eduardo Olbés]