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Daniel de la Cruz's Touchstone
of Modern Sculpture
by: Christiane L. de la Paz
January-February Many of the artists who emerged in found themselves pursuing a career in painting.
There's joyousness to Daniel de la Cruz's women in his upcoming show Unbridled, running April May 4 at Greenbelt 5's Galleria Nicolas.
But Daniel de la Cruz, who turned forty that year, actively turned his thoughts towards his dream of becoming a sculptor and debuted his figural sculptures at the Ayala Museum, reaping unbelievable success and adulation. Because of his talent and deepened commitment to his art braided with his professional training as an accomplished product designer and fascination with the creative possibilities of metals, this led him to produce sculptures of graceful and powerful rotund figures of women, eventually becoming his signature style.
His searing body of works is viewed with anecdotes, childhood memories, studio notes, fairy tales, fantasy, myths and legends and is thought of as chronicles of his intellectual and practical journeys. Half a decade later, as the range and quality of de la Cruz&rs