UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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MessageGig Depio: Rebuilders
- January 15, 2021 - April 02, 2021
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The plastic tube where the artist's mother, Fe Esterlina De Pio Rolfe, stored the drawings that appear in Rebuilders.
The polystyrene cover that protected "Catch-22" while Paco V. Sanchez and the artist- who have known each other since high school- transported it to the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art.
“We lived in my mom’s gallery and my dad’s studio. It was in the house, but Mom had a real gallery. You grew up there and everything was Cubist art, Modern art, in our house. We had a frame shop in the basement. All the Old Masters used to bring their stuff and we’d frame all of [it]. I grew up with that in my head.” Years later, after Depio had moved from the Philippines to the United States, he would say farewell to Cubism by painting it into the background of Catch-22. Meanwhile, his mother began to collect her son’s drawings before he could throw them away. “I had a little bit of a fantasy, like I died during Covid – sorry that’s negative thinking – but then if I did die, they’re going to go to my mom for all the drawings.”
(DK Sole, curator)