Composed of 36 works in different mediums spanning various eras of his career, “Sansó: Prized and Personal” is a celebration not just of his art, but also of collector Jack Teotico’s and Sansó’s long-running friendship.
Fundacion Sansó recently launched the exhibit “Sansó: Prized and Personal.” Heralded by organizers as a first of a series of “Prized and Personal” shows, this major exhibit opens the year for Fundacion Sansó, this time focusing solely on the private collections of Presidential Medal of Merit Awardee Juvenal Sansó’s works.
The “Sansó: Prized and Personal” series of exhibits are selections from the private collections of Sansó’s most avid collectors. These exhibitions are meant to give us insight on the aspects of Sansó’s art and how these aspects resonate with the individuals and families who have made it their personal mission to create a comprehensive Sansó collection. Here, we get to understand why Sansó’s works are prized by these collectors, and what personally moves them to collect his art.
This series of exhibits will run on different dates throughout 2022 and will culminate in the publication of a book of the same title in 2023, published by Fundacion Sansó. This hardbound coffee table book will be different from the other institutional titles of the museum, as it will focus on the subjective and personal voices of the collectors, instead of the authoritative voice that is usually seen in art publications. The book will also be a case study on the various motivations of art collectors in response to the growing Filipino art scene.
The private collection featured in this very first “Sansó: Prized and Personal exhibit” is that of Fundacion Sansó chairman Jack Teotico, who, along with other friends of the artist, founded Fundacion Sansó in 2014 with the artist to establish his artistic legacy and support his advocacies.
Composed of 36 works, mostly on paper, in different mediums spanning the various eras of Sansó’s art career, from the Black Period, Floating Bouquet, and dry-brush barong-barong creations, to the highly popular Brittany and En Vase series, this first “Prized and Personal” show is a celebration not just of Sansó’s art, but also of Teotico’s and Sansó’s long-running friendship, which dates to the 1980s.
In this exhibit, Teotico shares what sets Sansó’s art apart from other works. “One of the things that I learned in collecting is to discern an artwork not by thinking of it is as good or bad, but by measuring the emotional impact of that artwork on the viewer,” Teotico says. “There is an emotional impact in every painting by Sansó. Each of them will have a nuance or something about it that will make you happy, sad, disturbed, or relaxed. But emotionally, it will hit you. And emotional impact is very important in collecting.”
“Sansó: Prized and Personal” had an this February on the Fundacion Sansó Facebook page. The physical launch will be on March 12, 3, p.m. at Fundacion Sansó, 32 V. Cruz, San Juan City. “Sansó: Prized and Personal” can be viewed online, while the physical exhibit at Fundacion Sansó will run until April 30.
