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“Like the megastar of Philippine show biz.” This was how the critic Cid Reyes described Mauro Malang Santos in the 1990s. “There is only one artist who, by popular acclaim remains… a number one,” he claimed.

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Indeed, Malang’s career by this time has been sailing at an all-time high for four decades. He utilized different mediums, whether it be oil, charcoal, acrylic, or gouache, and handled it to a point of mastery. “It’s the handling that varies, and ako na lang ang nakakaalam kung ano ang diperensya, which one is more difficult,” he said, as recounted by Alya B. Honasan in Art Without Rules.

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“Maturity, not age,” he added.

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His 1997 Fruit Vendor had truly shown Malang’s maturity. The subject matter features one of Malang’s favorites: the woman and the Filipino. Here, he depicts his woman with his signature big limbs and big hands and big feet. She sits with her legs crisscrossed and in front of her are slices of watermelon. His women have served as an interesting and dramatic stud for him throughout the years with this 1997 work possessing some sort of attitude as she frets over her fruits. The woman’s cartoonish proportions take up the majority of the space, metaphorically and literally taking back the space she is denied, both socially and artistically. Like many of his women, Fruit Vendor’s titular vendor is unafraid to occupy both space and attention and she creates a world fashioned after the artist’s own work: angst-free and happy. (Hannah Valiente)

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