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Nena Saguil (b. 1914, d. 1994) is a pioneer for Filipino abstract art as seen in her notable works: Power Room (1953), Abstract (1961), Landscapes of the Mind (1969), and Illumination II (1977). Her works often centered around geometric shapes symbolizing the universe at large or at a microscopic level, reflecting her interest in mysticism. Her portfolio is often categorized into the Manila works, which were about her homeland, and the Paris works, where she experimented with cubism, impressionism and surrealism.
Saguil attended the University of Philippines School of Fine Arts where she graduated with an Award of Excellence. In 1954, Saguil received the Walter Damrosch Scholarship, allowing her to study abstract and modern art at the Institute of Spanish Culture in Spain. She then studied at the School of American Arts in Paris and held her first solo art exhibit at Galerie Raymond Creuze. Throughout her life, Saguil exhibited paintings across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In 1974, she was declared as part of the Twelve Outstanding Overseas Filipinos. In 2006, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit. Her works continued to be displayed at the Lopez Museum, C
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a.k.a. Nena Saguil (b. Paper, September 19, 1914, d. Paris, Feb 1994)
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One of a handful of Filipino artists to delve into abstraction in the 1950s, Nena Saguil was the only woman to feature in an unprecedented exhibition of non-objective art organised by the Philippines’ first art critic, Aurelio Alvero, in 1953. She studied at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, graduating with distinction, and in 1949 received a medal of excellence. Five years later she left the country, having been awarded a number of grants that enabled her to study abstract art at the Ecoles d’Art Américaines de Fontainebleau (1954), the Institute of Spanish Culture in Madrid and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière (1955–1956). She then chose to live and work in Paris, where she spent the next forty years.
In the wake of her first solo exhibition at Galerie Raymond Creuze in Paris in 1957, her paintings were shown in Manilla, The Hague, Munich, Rome, Lausanne, Madrid, London, Stockholm, Istanbul, Nice and beyond. They are part of the collections of the Centre National d’Art Contemporain and the Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques in France, the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Lopez Museum in Manilla, as well as a number of private collections in Europe and Asia.