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Kawayan De Guia's "Incubator was an exhibit of his personal inspirations, which included Santiago Bose.

Below is the article from the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Kawayan de Guia’s extraordinary portraits

Santiago Bose 1949 – 2002
by John Batten
Published in Art Monthly Australia, July 2003

Put simply: one of Asia’s greatest artists died last December.

Santiago Bose was a complex, many-layered man. Santi Bose: friendly, articulate, humorous, engaging, intellectual, jealous, angry, funny, loving, disorganised, artistic, organised, promiscuous, temperamental, competitive, entertaining, creative, revolutionary, committed, rebellious, caring, self-centred, generous, annoying, polite….

Moulded by Art

A Philippine artist tackles his country's past to help people come to terms with the present

By Suh-kyung Yoon/HONG KONG

Issue cover-dated December 14, 2000

WHEN A COUNTRY IS FALLING apart--both economically and politically--art may seem rather frivolous. But to Santiago Bose, a Philippine avant-garde artist, it matters even more.

"The artist cannot but be affected by his society. It is hard to ignore the pressing needs of the nation while making art that serves the nation's elite... We struggled to change society, which is difficult and dangerous, and we also sought to preserve communal aspects of life. I too am haunted by visions of hardship, poverty, disenfranchisement of the 'primitive' tribes, but between outbursts of violence and exploitation are also tenderness, selflessness and a sense of community.