The adobo main course served up its second installment on 24 November at the Ayala Museum. The event featured From Inspiration to Illusion, Ayala’s retrospective of the opulent, dazzlingly imagined work of new York-based Ilonggo scenographer Eduardo V. Sicangco.
Theater buffs, design practitioners, stylists, event specialists and others who specialize in visual illusion packed the hall. All were eager to see into the mind of a master whose body of work combines dazzling concepts with an increasingly rare mastery of execution and handcraft.
In a Q & A format inspired by Inside the Actor’s Studio, interviewer Angel Guerrero drew out Sicangco’s colorful, eye-opening remarks on art and artistry, show and show business. During the gallery tour that followed, Sicangco himself acted as tour guide and lecturer for the privileged audience.
Sicangco’s works have been revealed at curtain-rise in Philippine and American theatres for opera and ballet, Lincoln Center, Radio City Hall and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, as well as off-Broadway shows. He has also crossed mediums, to the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus, and even to cinema, where he and an assistant worked with Chinese artisans (and plenty of interpreters!) to design and build the ancient courtyard demolished by action superstars Jackie Chan and Jet Li in the film The Forbidden Kingdom.
His work is widely recognized and has been included in the Lynn Pecktal book Costume Design: Techniques of Modern Masters, a standard reference for the field.
The adobo main course presents seminars, lectures and other events on advertising, brand communications, media and design. It is a venue for executives and experts, creatives and designers of all media to impart sharp knowledge and real-world experience.
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