Dante Claros Palmes
May 10 – 31, 2022
Artists Reception
May 12, Thursday | 3 PM
NCCA Gallery
National Commission for Culture and the Arts
633 General Luna St. Intramuros, 1002 Manila, Philippines
In celebration of National Heritage Month, the National Commission on Culture and the Arts for this month of May presents “Saka,” an art exhibition by Dante Claros Palmes. The artist, who is based in Los Baños, Laguna, was inspired by the farmers he often sees in the rice fields surrounding the University of the Philippines’ campus, location of the laboratories of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). Palmes, known primarily as a painter, shifts his medium to wood, rendering in three-dimensional form the workers’ hands and feet in his typical Impressionist style.
