Bienvenido Bones Banez

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Bienvenido Bones Banez, Jr. (born 1962 in Davo City, Philippines) - is a visionary painter.

Education

He studied at the Learning Center of the Arts (now Ford Academy of the Arts) in that city, where one of his tutors was Victorio Edades, Jr.

Career

In 2002 he won the Asian Fellowship Painting Competition of the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont, USA. In 2004, Bañez went to New York where he now lives. In 2010, he was included in Lexikon der phantastischen Künstler Encyclopedia of Fantastic & Surrealistic & Symbolist & Visionary Artists. pp. 47–48. ISBN 3837084272 Search this book on ...

He is a Board Member of the Williamsburg Circle of International Arts and Letters with several noted Scholars, artists and performers including Robert J. Wickenheiser, Terrance Lindall and Peter Dizozza.

Between 2009 and 2014 several Bañez drawings and paintings were acquired for the Robert J. Wickenheiser for his John Milton collection at the University of South Carolina. Bañez has many works in the Yuko Nii Foundation Collection which is located in the Kings County Savings Bank's landmark building.

In 2017 a Bañez portrait of John Milton was added to the Milton's Cottage collection (see photo of him with Milton Cottage's board member John Dugdale Bradley – right), and he was named to the editorial board of Emanations, a print anthology of poetry, fiction and essay published by International Authors. Among board members is Michael Moorcock.

Banez has exhibited in many shows at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, also at the Society for Art of the Imagination, and many other venues. He also performs extempore on piano.

He exhibited art in a show called "Visionaries" at Queensborough Community College with artists including Isaac Abrams, Miguel Tio, and H.R. Giger. Giger’s work can be seen in the 1979 film “Alien” for which he was awarded an Oscar for Best Achievement in Visual Effects.

Themes

Following the model of his colleague and sometime collaborator Terrance Lindall, Bañez  has devoted considerable energies to projects inspired by poet John Milton. Bañez’s method is hermeneutical technique. The theme in Bañez’s work is his protean notion of “Surrealmageddon”.  A fusion of early-20th Century Surrealistic theorizing, satire, faux-occult posturing, Blakean readings of John Milton, Terrance Lindall’s outspoken criticism of the politics of the contemporary art “scene”, and apocalyptic Jewish and Christian eschatology, the concept of “Surrealmageddon” lends hermeneutic coherence to the dynamic and unsettling figures that populate Bañez’s canvases. Obscure, ironic, and horrific, the notion of Surrealmageddon underscores a manifold vision of globalism, contemporary fascism, ecological devastation, cultural decline, and provocative species of existential and theological skepticism. Drawing unevenly on Bañez’s concept, the collaborative Introduction appearing in the third volume of International Authors’ arts anthology, Emanations: Third Eye amply dilates on the idea to remarkable (and humorous) effect.

Selected exhibitions

• Dinner with the Devil Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Sept 19, 2014
• Satanic Verses Reading Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Sept, 2014
• The first presentation of The Satanic Verses of Bones Banez Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Jan 25, 2014
• Satan’s Peculiar Grace 14th Annual WAH Salon Art Club Show, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Jan 26-Feb 24, 2013
• The Society For Art Of Imagination Exhibition, Phantasten Museum (Phantastenmuseum Wien), Palais Palffy; Vienna, Austria 2012
• WAH's 16th Anniversary, The Grand Harvest: International Juried Show with Awards, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA, Oct 27-Dec 9, 2012
• The Visionaries Show at the QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College, New York, USA. "Visionaries: The Art Of The Fantastic" July 12, 2012 - to September 20, 2012
• Paradise Lost Collectors Weekend And Antiquarian Books and Art Exhibit, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA, April 14–15, 2012
• WAH Salon Art Club, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
• Fifty Year Fantastic, The Society for Art of Imagination, United Kingdom, London, 2010
• Great Artists Exhibit, Museo Dabawenyo, Davao, Philippines, 2010
• Selected Contemporary Works From The Permanent Collection, PART 2 (2002–Present), Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA
• Paradise Lost Festival and Exhibit Celebrating Milton's 400th Birthday, 2008
• Brave Destiny Exhibit, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2003

Reviews and publications

• Kaplan, Carter. (2013). Emanations: Third Eye. p. xvi. Introduction includes works by various visual artists. Brookline, Massachusetts: International Authors. ISBN 0615494404 Search this book on ..
• Kaplan, Carter, et al. (2012). Emanations: Second Sight. The second anthology showcasing the work of thirty writers from around the world, with illustrations by various artists. Brookline, Massachusetts: International Authors. ISBN 0615699928 Search this book on ..
• Visionaries: The Art of the Fantastic, 1st Edition. ISBN 1936658143 Search this book on .. 2012: QCC Art Gallery Press.
• Lindall, Terrance (2012) with commentary by John Milton's Paradise Lost, p. 53. ISBN 978-1-4675-6146-4 Search this book on .. 2012: Yuko Nii Foundation.
• Visionaries: the Art of the Fantastic, a Queens Public Television review.
• Rapp, Otto (2010). Visionary Art Yearbook 2010-2011; Canada: Otto Rapp.
• Somozo, Phillip (Jan-Feb 2010). Mindanaoan Artist in Lexicon of Surrealism, p. 48. Manila: Filipinas Mag.
• Somozo, Phillip (2009). Mindanaoan Artist Visual Irony in Lexicon of Surrealism, Ang Dabawenyo.
• Habarta, Gerard (2009). Lexikon der phantastischen Künstler. Encyclopedia of Fantastic & Surrealistic & Symbolist & Visionary Artists. Germany: Books on Demand. pp. 47–48. ISBN 3837084272 Search this book on ..
• Lindall, Terrance. What’s New in the Surreal World, p. 164. March 2006: Art and Antiques Magazine.

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