Footnotes

Provenance
Hiraya Gallery, Manila, The Philippines
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited
San Francisco, USA, At Home & Abroad: 20 Contemporary Filipino Artists, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1998
Texas, USA, At Home & Abroad: 20 Contemporary Filipino Artists, Houston Art Museum, 1999
Manila, The Philippines, At Home & Abroad: 20 Contemporary Filipino Artists, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, 1999

Literature
Tin-aw Art Management, Alfredo Esquillo, Makati City, The Philippines, 2013, p. 35, illustrated in colour
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, At Home & Abroad: 20 Contemporary Filipino Artists, San Francisco, 1998, p. 79, illustrated in colour

阿爾費雷多‧艾斯奇洛
高爾夫球場
油彩 鋸屑軟銲橡膠板
1997年作

簽名：A Esquillo 10.1997（右下）Hiraya畫廊與馬尼拉大都會博物館標籤（框背）

來源
菲律賓馬尼拉Hiraya Gallery
現藏家得自上述畫廊

展覽
美國舊金山，「At Home & Abroad: 20 Contemporary Filipino Artists」，舊金山亞洲藝術博物館，1998年
美國德克薩斯州，「At Home & Abroad: 20 Contemporary Filipino Artists」，休斯頓藝術博物館，1999年
菲律賓馬尼拉，「At Home & Abroad: 20 Contemporary Filipino Artists」，馬尼拉大都會博物館，1999年

出版
Tin-aw Art Management，《Alfredo Esquillo》，菲律賓馬卡蒂，2013年，第35頁，彩圖
舊金山亞洲藝術博物館，《At Home & Abroad: 20 Contemporary Filipino Artists》，舊金山，1998年，第79頁，彩圖

Born in Manila in 1972, Alfredo Esquillo, Jr. quickly became one of the most influential artists of his generation after completing his BFA degree at the University of Santo Tomas in 1993. Early in his career, Esquillo was strongly influenced by "magical realism" expressing the fantastical and uncanny nature of everyday reality. As his practice evolves, Esquillo has not only developed a revolutionary art style that redefines the technology of photographic effects but also broadened his themes that convey political and environmental messages.

In Golf Plan, Esquillo confronts injustice and probes into a skewed social life and class disparities in the Philippines. A stake that asserts "I will buy your land" breaks up the canvas into two halves, as if the artist's countrymen are ironically divided into two distinct groups—those back-breaking peasants who find themselves powerless in the face of land restructuring and the rich elites who enjoy their time playing golf. By using his art as an innovative and powerful medium for awareness, Esquillo examines controversial issues in the Philippine context and cogently demonstrates the artist's role as an advocate and a social critic.