To
describe Veneracion’s work is to bring back
the context of his early period. In the early 1970’s,
or even before that… an attitude that divides
the whole pictorial area into several areas (or
cells) as though the divisions have their own individual
sovereignty as in the city states of old European
maps… like there are several paintings assembled
together. A tension is therefore achieved and generated
as a strong and unique visual force… the colors
reverberate, resound. They do not deal with transparencies
or lateral movement: they provide a frenzied structure
built according to intuition. The segments draw
a tension of belonging, and independence, singularity
and multiplicity…a whole catalogue of
his seemingly endless devices and techniques may
make him quite an artist with rather sophisticated
hand-mind coordination, and yet, there smacks a
touch of primitivism in the way the geometric shapes
were intuitively laid around, and the way the colors
were mis-coordinated. This works for him now, as
he provides a checkpoint of what may be called “Filipino
taste.”
1984 Raymundo R. Albano
Museum Director
Cultural Center of the Philippines
To
describe Veneracion’s work is to bring back
the context of his early period. In the early 1970’s,
or even before that… an attitude that divides
the whole pictorial area into several areas (or
cells) as though the divisions have their own individual
sovereignty as in the city states of old European
maps… like there are several paintings assembled
together. A tension is therefore achieved and generated
as a strong and unique visual force… the colors
reverberate, resound. They do not deal with transparencies
or lateral movement: they provide a frenzied structure
built according to intuition. The segments draw
a tension of belonging, and independence, singularity
and multiplicity…a whole catalogue 
of
his seemingly endless devices and techniques may
make him quite an artist with rather sophisticated
hand-mind coordination, and yet, there smacks a
touch of primitivism in the way the geometric shapes
were intuitively laid around, and the way the colors
were mis-coordinated. This works for him now, as
he provides a checkpoint of what may be called “Filipino
taste.”
