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Ramon Orlina Auction Records

Ramon Orlina Auction Results

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Channewasia.com: Where art thou?

Ramon Orlina isn't what you'd call an emotional man, but earlier in his career the 63-year-old artist had good reason to cry and did.
His $300,000 work, Wings of Victory, made up of 67 suspended steel birds weighing 35kg each, went missing...

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Photo of Wings of Victory

Sculpture Community

PBA The Daily Tribune

Orlina trophy named after Jun Bernardino
Tributes come early for great men.
And no less than the Perpetual Trophy, designed by no less than a national artist, will now be named after the late Emilio “Jun” Bernardino Jr., who served the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) longest for nine years. It will be fittingly given to the champion of the most prestigious PBA conference, the Philippine Cup...

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30 Years in the Embrace of Light

IT HAS BEEN 30 YEARS SINCE Ramon Orlina, leaving his architecture practice in 1974 and turning to the visual arts full time, found splendor in the glass. He tinkered first with painting but later on stumbled upon sculpture....

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Quintessential Orlina
OMNIUM-GATHERUM By Miguel Ramos
The Philippine STAR 10/30/2006

Quintessence. Classically, from "quinta essentia," or the fifth and
highest element of which heavenly bodies are made of in contrast with
fire, air, water and earth. It is also the essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form containing its rarest virtue and mostessential constituent. Quintessence is the perfect example of its kind. In the hands of Ramon Orlina, glass becomes the medium of sculpture’s quintessence. And in celebrating his 30th year as an artist....

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Outstanding Sundry Stroke by Rosalinda Orosa

Translucent Orlina

Glass sculptor Ramon Orlina exhibits his recent works in a solo show titled "Translucent Life," which features 18 new interpretations of life forms in glass...

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Mga Kwentong Galing!

World Class Glass Master
By Chelo S. Aloria

When asked what his middle initial stands for, Ramon G. Orlina laughingly answered, "Glass!" Well, there's no doubt he earned such a name being the firstFilipino to master glass sculpture.

There's only a handful of Filipino artists who use glass as medium. That's because glass, unlike wood is not an easy material to carve. But Orlina proves otherwise and can do more than just carve. He can transform a simple piece of glass into a work of art through months of cutting, reshaping, and polishing. As a result, viewers will be able to see the lights trapped by the glass' unique forms...

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Philippine Visual Arts: A Glass Sculptor's Perspective

For in the world sculpture, few can boast of such achievements in the industry, and in sensitively relating to the rest of humanity as Ramon Orlina has...

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Contemporary Artist
Ramon G. Orlina: Reflections of a transparent Life
by Reuben Ramas Cañete

Art is creation, creating something new, something original, something different and doing something to change a subject, to build." -Ramon G. Orlina

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SAM (Singapore Art Museum)

Features Ramon Orlina's selected works.

View link at http://www.nhb.gov.sg/SAM/Information/Architecture/

Tsinoy.com: Glassworks Par Excellance
by Ramon Orlina

Features Ramon Orlina's selected works.

View link at http://www.tsinoy.com/gallery/orlina.cfm

UST Alumni Covered Walkway
and Alumni Park Construction Underway

MASSIVE construction has been taking place along the Engineering Sports Complex near the multi-level carpark building, and the space between the Main and the Central Library Buildings since the early part of April. The construction of the Alumni Covered Walkway and the Alumni Park is expected to be completed in time for the opening of the AY 2006-2007. These structures are part of the fund raising projects for the UST Fourth Centennial...

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UST Public and Alumni Affairs:
The Outstanding Thomasian Alumni (TOTAL) Awards

The TOTAL Awards has served as the University of Santo Tomas' (UST) venue for recognizing alumni who have made significant contributions to the various industries.

View link at http://webservice.mnl.ust.edu.ph/paao/TOTALAwards.asp

Virtual Gallery / Phil. Artist.com:

The Tower Club

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Who's who @ Phil on Rise

This site features outstanding citizens in the Philippines who, have not only shown their best and have excelled in their respective fields but have also helped uplift the life of the Filipino people. They are mostly nominated by various organizations and are featured here based on their accomplishments and contributions to Philippine society.

iew link at http://www.philonrise.com/whoswho/

Ramon Orlina: 30 years of exquisite glass sculpture

Today, 30 years later, Orlina's passion for glass has only grown stronger, as shown in his anniversary exhibition "Quintessence," on view at the MuseumSpace on the second floor of the Ayala Museum's Glass Wing until November 9.

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PBA to award perpetual trophy

STARTING this season, the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) will institutionalize the giving of the Perpetual trophy to the champion of the Philippine Cup.
Renowned national artist Ramon Orlina was commissioned by the league to design the special trophy made out of 18 karat gold and worth half a million pesos.

View link at http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/jan/25/yehey/sports/20070125spo4.html

JUN B TRIBUTE, HALL OF FAME INDUCTION HIGHLIGHT 32ND ANNIV RITES

Former colleagues and close friends will share their thoughts about the man they fondly called "Ibok" and "Kume" as the PBA honors the late commissioner Emilio ‘Jun’ Bernardino during its anniversary rites on Easter Sunday that also features the induction of 10 league luminaries into the PBA Hall of Fame.

View link at http://www.pba.ph/content/view/1517/59/

Kagampan by Ramon Orlina

Features Ramon Orlina's Kagampan

View link athttp://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/singapore/arts/sculptors/philippines/orlina/1.html

View link at http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=36D010EEBF4D9F8887A0615872C63FF0

Orlina trophy named after Jun Bernardino

Tributes come early for great men.
And no less than the Perpetual Trophy, designed by no less than a national artist, will now be named after the late Emilio “Jun” Bernardino Jr., who served the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) longest for nine years. It will be fittingly given to the champion of the most prestigious PBA conference, the Philippine Cup.

View link at http://www.tribune.net.ph/sports/20070327spo1.html

Glassworks Par Excellance
by Ramon Orlina

Features Ramon Orlina's selected works.

View link at http://www.tsinoy.com/gallery/orlina.cfm

World Class Glass Master

When asked what his middle initial stands for, Ramon G. Orlina laughingly answered, "Glass!"

Well, there's no doubt he earned such a name being the firstFilipino to master glass sculpture.

View link at http://www.galing.com/success/orlina.shtml

Ramon Orlina's translucent life OMNIUM-GATHERUM
by Miguel Ramos

Ramon Orlina is an artist deeply passionate about his art and truly proud of what he has accomplished. Rightfully so. After all, it is not every day that one is able to successfully create a new art form.

Miguel Ramos: When did you know you had a talent for art?

Ramon Orlina: I’ve always liked art. I always thought I was good at drawing. Even when I was young, I already liked to draw, especially from comics. In my generation everybody read comics…maybe not people your age anymore…

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Artist-Expo's Tolentino Hall

Features Ramon Orlina's selected works.

View link at http://www.artist-expo.com/

Translucent Orlina

Glass sculptor Ramon Orlina exhibits his recent works in a solo show titled "Translucent Life," which features 18 new interpretations of life forms in glass.

The works will include his new martial art forms of human figures in various poses of the ancient discipline, as a homage to Taiwaneses sculptor Ju Ming. Also included are recent works on birds, foliage, lovers, family and the all-popular "Ning-Ning" series.

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Ramon Orlina's translucent life
OMNIUM-GATHERUM by Miguel Ramos

When I started learning to appreciate art a few years ago, one of the last things I learned was how to appreciate sculpture – particularly works that are not explicitly figurative like many of Ramon Orlina’s pieces. For me, it was easy to appreciate the beauty of or the skill involved in creating a sculpture that clearly depicted a person or an object, like Michelangelo’s David or the stretched figures of Giacometti. But once the piece tended towards the abstract, I could no longer understand it...

View link at http://www.philstar.com/philstar/showarticle.asp?article=101315

Toyamura International Sculpture Biennale

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Filipinos triumph in Madrid Int'l Art Competition

Two renowned Filipino artists, Ramon G. Orlina and Emannuel garibay, won first and second prizes in Sculpture and Painting, respectively, in a competition which all had the drama and hallmarks of a victory unseen since the Luna-Hidalgo triumph back in the 1880s.

View link at http://www.asianjournal.com/pages/011000/news/22madrid.html

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Singapore Public Art

Fertile Crescent, Ramon Orlina, 1986
Stainless steel and glass
Commission: Singapore Sports Council
Location: near National Stadium, facing Kallang Basin.

View link at http://www.nusantara.com/

The Auditorium

The high-ceiling Auditorium on the second floor creates a serene ambience that is tasteful and well suited for symposiums and small

musical performances. Formerly the chapel of the boy's institution, it features a permanent glass installation by Filipino artist Ramon Orlina, in the gothic window where the central stained glass piece was once erected before World War II.

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Sculpture in South East Asia: An Overview

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Bryan Ohno Gallery

Features works and other information about Ramon Orlina.

View link at http://www.bryanohnogallery.com/

SOL Art Gallery

Features Ramon Orlina's selected works.

View link at http://www.solartgallery.it/

Galeriasia

Features Ramon Orlina's selected works.

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Filipino Heritage

Glass has a certain magic to Orlina. He states: "First it is a liquid that has solidified, frozen. There's magic right there. And then, you don't get tired of looking at glass. If you move your head just a little, you see it in a different way. It becomes something else again. The play of light on a piece can totally transform it".

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Artist-Expo's Tolentino Hall

Features Ramon Orlina's selected works.

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