Lirio salvador biography of barack

“It’s all about the merging of my native oriental culture with the present industrial environment that is slowly corrupting my native land.” This is Filipino artist Lirio Salvador talking about ethno-industrial art, his own creation that integrates performance art, sculpture, and sound art all into one.

Innovation is at the heart of Salvador’s ethno-industrial art, a life-long artistic process of transforming tactile, auditory, and visual materials as a likely response to being a Filipino in the 21st century.

Lirio salvador biography of barack

As a sculptor, Salvador created polished and complex metal sculptures constructed from everyday materials such as bowls, bicycle gears, pipes, and spoons, to name a few. Salvador has been rightly and fondly called an alchemist of object and sound.

This is because these sculptures are functioning musical instruments, producing strange noises and unconventional amplified sound.

These metallic forms are inspired not only by their m