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If the Shoe Fits, It Must be Pete’s

The first thing you notice is the black-rimmed spectacles framing half his face. Then the barest hint of a latent sense of humor.  That he could yield mastery over metal, use force, fire and fury to command, contort and contract and connect, well who would have guessed.

< width="250" height="379" align="right" src=" principal. " alt="" />Last Thursday, 28 May, sculptor Pete Jimenez’s If the Shoe Fits opened in the Yuchengco Museum at RCBC Plaza.  As an extension of the Alliance Francaise de Manille’s (AFM) Portraits de chaussures-histoires de pieds (Portraits of Shoes-Stories of Feet), the exhibit was commissioned by AFM. Veteran ad man, adobo magazine columnist and art lecturer Cid Reyes, a personal friend of Jimenez, suggested the title ‘If the Shoe Fits’.

The sculptures make use of Jimenez’ trademark medium of surplus metal, with a new twist: weathered wooden shoe forms, some made from now-rare hardwoods like kamagong.

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“I ordered [the forms] six months ago and they’ve just been lying around in my garage,” a gleeful Jimenez narrated. Though some of the sculptures look solid and massive, they feature crafty nuances that bend, twist and pop to the viewer’s delight.  Referring to the sculptures, Jimenez shakes his head with childlike wonder, “People are afraid to touch them.  I keep going around showing them what the (sculptures) can do.”  Jimenez at times sounded less a sculptor and more a toymaker.  With this artist however, there was nary a difference between the two.

A sculptor since 2000, Jimenez was prolific in 2008 with a string of successful shows, one of which was presented by Alliance Francaise de Manille. Spring Collection played on the French association with haute couture to literally feature springs, as in metal coils, fashioned into sculptures.  Other exhibits were similarly dubbed: Nail Spa, you guessed, featuring the kind of nails you pound into wood.  As with Scrapyard, another exhibit, you get the picture.

Pete Jimenez, general manager and chief operating officer of ace post-production facility Optima Digital, Inc. dons many hats, and many a shoe that fits.

If the Shoe Fits runs until June 20 at the Water Dragon Gallery, Yuchengco Museum, RCBC Plaza.  For more details call +63 2 889 1234.

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