Napoleon M. Haboc
Dongguan, Guangdong
Dongguan-based Filipino contemporary artist & industrial designer using two art mediums that tell a story: textured acrylic paint and fine bamboo debris art.
MessageFilipino artist & designer Napoleon M. Haboc is an emerging contemporary artist in Dongguan City, Guangdong, China. He was an active artist in the Philippines in the '90s. Still, He was interrupted by his Design profession abroad for less than two decades when a Chinese manufacturer hired him in Guangdong, China, in 2003. In 2018, he decided to revive his art passion. He found his two new mediums and voice through colored textured acrylic paint on a mat board and a monochromatic crosshatched bamboo fine debris art. Most of his artistic inspirations are from his experiences and personal observation worldwide. Thus, global issues, other worldwide awareness, all the things he experienced in life, and people who have had a substantial impact on his life became a part of his art that tells a story with a message. He focused on life's reality as the central theme of most of his art.
You can follow Nap on Instagram @napoleonmhaboc and his website at www.napoleonmhaboc.com to view his industrial design works.
Statement
I have two main mediums in my art: colored textured acrylic paint on the mat board and a monochromatic crosshatched bamboo fine debris art, respectively. I'm a nature lover and fascinated with the natural texture of marble and rain, including symbolism, which inspired me to use these features to create art in my chosen art theme.
A combination of nature and intention is the two phases in my artistic approach to my colored art medium. By scattering random acrylic colored paints on the mat board panel and wrapping it up with clustered recycled and unsorted kinds of used cellophane to create natural prints on the panel's surface. The fun part of this process is that it always provides unexpected results; I call it "my surprise art." I will then complete the story through my wild imagination with symbolism by incorporating related art ideas I have in mind for the final touch revealing the textured marbling and rainy effect, the crater-like texture, and the obscurity of my art characters.
The crosshatched fine bamboo debris art is my second and newest significant art medium. I used both conventional imagery and symbolism to convey my art's message. I chose a black mat board as my background because black is a mysterious color typically associated with the unknown or negative; it's also a prestigious color representing strengths, seriousness, power, authority, and a symbol of grief. I chose finely chopped bamboo debris as my primary material in this medium because bamboo has a global spiritual and symbolic meaning and is my other representation of the tangible rainy effect and my minimalist art. Bamboo symbolizes strength, flexibility, development, and luck. By crushing bamboo, chopping it into fine, sharp, tiny sticks, and gradually and patiently piling it up layer-by-layer, forming a layered crosshatched pattern and texture on my black panel's surface with special glue, I can compose a one-of-a-kind art piece monochromatically from natural material.
Most of my art inspirations are from my experiences and personal observation worldwide. The global issues, and other worldwide awareness, the things that I've experienced, and people who have had a substantial impact on my life became a part of my art inspiration that tells a story with a message; hence, life's reality is the central theme of most of my art.
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