of fetish erotica that relies on the drama of melancholia, instead of on pure eroticism, as the secret springboard for the production of erotic imagining. Trance painting is deemed by de Veyra to have been culled from the art of Blue Period Picasso and Diego Velázquez, as much as from Raphael, Degas, Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Nobuyoshi Araki, and the "defamiliarization" technique of the Russian Formalists. In November 2014, Antonio enjoined the then-freelancing critic de Veyra, along with painter Simkin de Pio, to launch diskurso art magazine, an online art magazine-cum-blog for which he would act as publisher, with de Veyra as the chief writer and editor. Selected shows Solo shows Cultural Center of the Philippines Brix Gallery, Manila Liongoren Art Gallery, Manila "Recent Artworks", The Drawing Room, Manila (June 3–21, 2000) "Langue et Parole", West Gallery, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong (July 13–25, 2000) "Dialogo", The Drawing Room, Manila "Les Petites Histoires", Ad Infinitum Galleries, Manila "Märchen", Jasmine Fine Arts, Singapore "Sturm und Drang", Galleria Quattrocento, Makati (September 26 - October 9, 2009) Glorietta Art Center, Makati (July, 2010) "The Romantic Lie: Desire, Ennui, Anxiety", Water Dragon Gallery, Yuchengco Museum, Makati (February 2012) Selected group exhibitions Raab Galleries, West Berlin, Germany Art Exchange, Australia Alliance Française de Manille Pinaglabanan Art Galleries, Manila References 1965 births Artists from Metro Manila 20th-century Filipino painters 21st-century Filipino painters Living people People from Manila University of the Philippines alumni