Marcial Pontillas

Marcial Pontillas was born and raised in the Philippines, and moved to Guam in 2011. He is a former Fine Arts College Professor at the Far Eastern University in Manila from 2000 to 2010 and a multi-award winning artist, he had different art exhibitions local and international. Marcial is a conceptual artist who continues to explore the human spirit with the claustrophobic humanscapes as its metaphor. Aside from paintings, Marcial makes sculptures, installation, prints, graphics and video art. His works reflect his sensitivity towards the urban life's seemingly suffocating existence. In the traffic congestion of human bodies and machines, the "Worst" of our species seems to manifest and fester. However, is this chaos a part of the cycles of transcendence, our search for "Worth".

WORKS ON VIEW AT THE PODIUM From the Philippine Daily Inquirer of Monday September 27, 2004Multi-awarded artist Marcial Pontllas is holding his first one-man exhibition, "Genre of Expressions: MASA," at the Galerie Joaquin at The Podium.Pontillas twice won the grand prize at the PLDT-Directories Phils. Corp.'s Visual Art national painting competition. He also won the grand prizes at the CBCP/UST National Eucharistic Painting Competition, the TSPI-Tulay sa Pag-unlad Painting Contest and the 28th Shell National Art Competition.He has also been a consistent finalist in the Philip Morris, Windsor and Newton and AAP art contests. Recently, he was one of the 5 Jurors Choice awardees at the GSIS painting competition. Pontillas' works call to mind the works of noted expressionists, Danny Dalena and Onib Olmedo. Like Dalena's, Pontillas' works are clearly metaphors for the human condition. *Call: 02 723 9253 or 02 634 7954 GALERIE JOAQUIN The PodiumBUCOLIC ART, URBAN ANGST OFMARCIAL PONTILLASPhilippine Daily Inquirer Expressionist forceIn contrast, Marcial Pontillas, who has won a string of prizes over the last few years, has a markedly expressionistic style that serves him well in his first show, Genre of Expressions: Masa. A native of Cam...

Opening on the 15th of October, Friday, is Enemy, a group show that deals with confronting an adversarial force that almost always end up being a lifelong obsession in either trying to either evade or vanquish it.
The enemy, often maligned as the very opposite of the amicable ally, rather forges the path to ones destiny, especially if this be made his existentialist raison d’etre. However real or imagined, the enemy becomes an i...ndubitable persona that shadows one’s waking moments, looming largely so in the psyche. Yet to verily depict their particularities, we paint the very thing that disgusts and lure us to the infinite cycle of disgust and loathing, to righteous indignation and sweeping prejudice.

Organized by Jason Montinola, the show gathers the works of Alvin Zafra, CJ Tañedo, Danilo Arriola, Darwin and Dennis Gonzales, Dexter Sy, Ivan Roxas, Jason Montinola, Jigger Cruz, John Paul Antido, Jojo Austria, Kaloy Sanchez, Kiko escora, Marcial Pontillas, Mark Magistrado, Melvin Culaba, Mideo Cruz, Orley Ypon and Ronald Caringal, that paint us portraits of embattling paradoxes, conveyed in known political figures, embittered lovelorns, organic entropy, circumstantial providence, aesthetic direction and cataclysmic unions. Th...