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The 1960s marked Malang’s rise to prominence with his celebrated barung-barong series. Characterized by his signature varying and overlapping geometric shapes overcrowding his canvas, this 1967 oil on canvas work reflects Malang’s early beginnings as a cartoonist. Moreover, this shows the artist’s gradual shift to abstraction, developing his own style.

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Malang’s impressive colorwork has distinguished him among Filipino artists. Regarded as a master colorist by critics, colleagues, and clientele alike, Malang’s dauntless utilization of colors is on full display in this piece. With his red and black-dominated palette, Red Landscape reflects the rather dark and grim side of his famed barung-barong series, which usually sports a colorful, upbeat palette. These shabby, congested shanties depict city life’s relatively bitter and poor qualities, in contrast to the pastoral landscapes depicting the glorious countryside life.

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Nevertheless, this piece is undeniably a Malang landscape— evident in his employment of space. “The format is generally restricted to an almost bilateral division of space: the city and the sky,” Juan Gatbonton’s description of Malang’s landscapes in Malang: Paintings and Drawings. “The city is depicted as a congestion of forms, densely packed and flattened out into interlocking patterns of color,” he added. (Jessica Magno)

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