Racso Jugarap

Last updated
Racso Jugarap
Artist Racso Jugarap.jpg
Born (1989-01-15) 15 January 1989 (age 35)

Racso Jugarap (born January 15, 1989) is a Filipino Belgian wire artist from General Santos, Philippines.

Contents

Early life

Racso Jugarap, born in 1989, had a head start in art – he was the youngest son of a jewelry designer. As a result, he grew up with not only an inextricable connection with art crafting and creative design, him playing and freely experimenting with the tools in his father's workshop cultivated creative ideas in his mind. During that particular time of higher education endeavor, he had already been commissioned to do design pieces for hotels and business establishments. That experience sharpened then duly broadened his creativity, allowed him to explore a wide range of materials to craft art pieces, and showed him that there are endless and exciting possibilities for art crafting, art creating, and art designing. [1] [2]

Works

Racso Jugarap is mainly self-taught with extensive experimentations with the material, the artist in Racso understood how materials behave—weaving each strand of various wires into organic and asymmetric shapes using the most minimal tool available to him. Curves have always been a crucial element in the artist's works, biomorphic and organic shapes. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] In 2024, Racso was selected as one of the 30 finalist for Loewe Foundation Craft Prize [8] for his work Echinoid. [9]

Wire Sculpture by Racso Jugarap Wire Sculpture by Racso Jugarap.jpg
Wire Sculpture by Racso Jugarap

[10]

Wearable arts and collaborations

The artist also shows a fascination with the fashion world as he created his series Icarus, which are different types of wearable pieces made from metal wires.Wearable art He also collaborated with brands such as GuerlainRemy Martin [11] and Tomorrowland Festival in his career.

Book

Echinoid By Racso Jugarap Echinoid By Racso Jugarap.jpg
Echinoid By Racso Jugarap

Black and White Reasons For My Carpal Tunnel Syndrome- A Photobook (2020) [12]

TV shows

Snack Masters Season 1 Episode 4 With Sofie Dumont, Patrick Aubrion Hosted by Koen Wauters.

Work seen at Extended Family, NBC channel

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Notable collector

The Weeknd, Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.

Galila Berzalai Hollander, [17] a prominent Belgian socialite with a reputable discernment and taste for the arts.

Reinout Oerlemans and Danielle Overgraag, celebrity Dutch couple.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Art Nouveau</span> 1890–1911 European style of art and architecture

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and flowers. Other characteristics of Art Nouveau were a sense of dynamism and movement, often given by asymmetry or whiplash lines, and the use of modern materials, particularly iron, glass, ceramics and later concrete, to create unusual forms and larger open spaces. It was popular between 1890 and 1910 during the Belle Époque period, and was a reaction against the academicism, eclecticism and historicism of 19th century architecture and decorative art.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Henry van de Velde</span> Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist

Henry Clemens van de Velde was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he is considered one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium. He worked in Paris with Siegfried Bing, the founder of the first gallery of Art Nouveau in Paris. Van de Velde spent the most important part of his career in Germany and became a major figure in the German Jugendstil. He had a decisive influence on German architecture and design at the beginning of the 20th century.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Juergen Teller</span> German fine-art and fashion photographer (born 1964)

Juergen Teller is a German fine-art and fashion photographer. He was awarded the Citibank Prize for Photography in 2003 and received the Special Presentation International Center of Photography Infinity Award in 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shahabuddin Ahmed (artist)</span> Bangladeshi painter

Shahabuddin Ahmed is a Bangladeshi painter. He was awarded the Chevalier De L'ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres by the Ministry of Cultural Affair and Communication of France in 2014. He was the recipient of Independence Day Award by the Government of Bangladesh in 2000. His paintings are displayed in galleries like Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland, Municipal Museum of Bourg-en-Bresse, France, Seoul Olympic Museum, South Korea, the National Taiwan Museum and Bangladesh National Museum.

Jan De Cock is a contemporary Belgian visual artist. From the start of his career, his art has revolved around production and the ways in which an artist relates to the broad culturally-injected concept of Modernism. In 2003 Jan De Cock entered the competition Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge. He is, after Luc Tuymans, only the second Belgian artist to have had a solo exposition at Tate Modern and the first living Belgian artist to have an exhibition at MoMA, which opened on 23 January 2008. Much of his work draws on visual and formal comparisons between early-20th century abstract art movements and contemporary design and mass production. During the first decade of his career the artist worked on the intersection of sculpture and architecture and he succeeded in extending the underlying functionalist consequences of the Russian Modernist artist El Lissitzky‘s Proun Room, thus completing a missing link within the modernist program yet to be completed in late twentieth century modernist art.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Campana brothers</span> Brazilian furniture designers

The Campana Brothers, consisting of Humberto Campana and Fernando Campana (1961–2022) are Brazilian furniture designers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michaël Borremans</span> Belgian painter and filmmaker (born 1963)

Michaël Borremans is a Belgian painter and filmmaker who lives and works in Ghent. His painting technique draws on 18th-century art, as well as the works of Édouard Manet and Degas. The artist also cites the Spanish court painter Diego Velázquez as an important influence. In recent years, he has been using photographs he has made himself or made-to-order sculptures as the basis for his paintings.

Wire sculpture is the creation of sculpture or jewelry out of wire. The use of metal wire in jewelry dates back to the 2nd Dynasty in Egypt and to the Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe. In the 20th century, the works of Alexander Calder, Ruth Asawa, and other modern practitioners developed the medium of wire sculpture as an art form.

A design museum is a museum with a focus on product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design. Many design museums were founded as museums for applied arts or decorative arts and started only in the late 20th century to collect design.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brussels International Exposition (1935)</span> Worlds fair held in Brussels, Belgium

The Brussels International Exposition of 1935 was a world's fair held between 27 April and 6 November 1935 on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Brussels, Belgium.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sergine André</span> Haitian-Belgian artist

Sergine Andre (‘Djinn’), born in the Artibonite region of Haiti, is an artist who has lived and worked in Brussels since 2010. Her paintings express an identity that straddles two worlds. Her imagination draws from both the magical-spiritual tradition of her home region and the Haitian artistic avant-garde and in her paintings she brings together contrasting themes such as life and death, light and shadows.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Graba'</span> Belgian artist (1940 - 2016)

Ignace De Graeve was a Belgian artist, who also used the name Graba'. He created mainly paintings and jewellery.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jérôme Btesh</span> French artist

Jerome Btesh (1968) is a French artist born in the sixties and living in Paris, France. He uses waste material such as metal, glass, industrial pieces and transform them within a common point, the light working.

Ry Rocklen is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, working primarily in sculpture. Rocklen's solo exhibitions often make use of found objects which he adorns or otherwise modifies. From 1996 to 1998, he attended the California Institute of the Arts. Rocklen earned his BFA in 2001 at UCLA, and his MFA in sculpture in 2006 at the University of Southern California. Rocklen's work has been shown nationally and internationally, and has been included in several major survey exhibitions, including "Made in LA" at the Hammer Museum and the 2008 Whitney Biennial. He is represented by Honor Fraser gallery in Los Angeles and Praz-Delavallade in Paris/Los Angeles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Devaux</span> French photographer


Thomas Devaux is a Paris-based artistic photographer.

Christophe Coppens is a Belgian artist and opera director, living and working in Belgium. Trained initially as a theatre director, Coppens started his own label as an accessories designer at the age of 21, a career that would span over 20 years with several outlets, international press following and buyers the world over, and that he would combine and nurture with his first stunts and solo shows as an artist.

Filipinos in Belgium comprise migrants from the Philippines to Belgium and their descendants living there. While the Belgian National Institute of Statistics has 3,067 Filipinos officially registered, the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) estimated that there are 12,224 Filipinos in Belgium in December 2013.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jeff Kowatch</span> American painter (born 1965)

Jeff Kowatch is an American painter, born in Los Angeles in 1965.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marthe Donas</span> Belgian abstract and cubist painter

Marthe Donas was a Belgian abstract and cubist painter and is recognized as one of the leading figures of Modernism. Donas worked under the androgynous pseudonyms Tour d'Onasky, Tour Donas and M. Donas.

Guillaume Leblon is a French sculptor and visual artist. He lives and works in New York City.

References

  1. "Racism Pushed This OFW to Leave His Job and Become a Famous Artist in Europe". Esquiremag.ph. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
  2. "Twists and turns: How this former OFW chef became a world-famous wire artist".
  3. "Filipino wire artist penetrates the European world of art and design". Inquirer Lifestyle. 2017-07-24. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
  4. Jugarap, Racso. "Racso Jugarap – Inspiring others". Together Magazine.
  5. Jugarap, Racso. "Brussels expat wire artist branches into bowties". The Bulletin.
  6. McCann, Kristian (2018-03-02). "Racso Jugarap's campaign for eco friendly fashion". Brussels Express. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
  7. Rivera, Rosetti (2017-07-24). "Filipino wire artist hits the Belgian art scene with novel art pieces". Brussels Express. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
  8. 1 2 "Wired to Succeed: Racso Jugarap on Becoming the First Filipino Finalist of the Loewe Craft Prize". Vogue Magazine. Archived from the original on May 29, 2024.
  9. "Filipino-Belgian artisan Racso Jugarap emerges as finalist for Loewe Craft Prize". The Lifestyle.INQ. Archived from the original on May 11, 2024.
  10. Jugarap, Racso. "Racso Jugarap presents the stories of his childhood". Gareth JOHNSON. Ket Magazine.
  11. "New Caketail : Butterflies & Royal Sidecar".
  12. "BLACK AND WHITE REASONS FOR MY CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME PHOTO BOOK By Racso J". Racso J. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
  13. "Obra ng Pinoy artist tampok sa European Commission". ABSCBN.
  14. "Racso J - Sculptures".
  15. "Schilder start groepsexpo omdat het tijd wordt dat kunstenaars weer iets doen".
  16. "Kunstensteenweg 2019".
  17. "Galila Barzilaï ouvre enfin sa collection d'art au public". L'Echo (in French). 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2021-10-07.