Noel Pama Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1961 -

Noel Parma becomes well known in Malaysia with his participation in the International Sasaran Art Festival in Selangor. Self-taught, he has shown a natural ability for painting figures. His specialty was Drafting Technology, from the Technological University of the Philippines. His art prizes include 3rd Prize for sculpture in the Art Association of the Philippines competition in 1998, and the Landbank Mural Design and the Commemorative Stamp Design competitions in 1997 and 1998 respectively. Noel Parma had a solo called Nocturnal Labyrinth in Singapore in 2008, and took part in the Malaysia-Vietnam-Philippines exhibition at Wisma Kebudayaan Soka Gakkai in 2005, and the Malaysia-Philippines exhibition at Galeri Seni Mutiara, Penang, in 2013 – the year he took part in Sasaran Art Festival.

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    • NOEL PAMA (b. 1961) UNTITLED, 2008, Oil on canvas
      Apr. 29, 2018

      NOEL PAMA (b. 1961) UNTITLED, 2008, Oil on canvas

      Est: RM4,000 - RM7,000

      There’s much debauchery about, in a dimly-lit dingy joint with the men and women in various stages of undressed. Booze, Cigarettes and Karaoke – the prelude to sex at one of the closed rooms provided. The women are dressed in rags that leave little to the imagination while the men, because they are the paying and often paying generously, are treated like kings. The girls with their hair long and their skirts very short. As the two nearest viewer seem to get intimate, another hostess who’s obviously not taken, saunters close for a bit of the action, hoping on a threesome perhaps. There’s a lot of groping around while two others get vicarious thrills from watching the hostess sexy moves, never mind if she’s not dancing to the beats or has two left legs. Yes, the scene seems familiar from the work in the previous Henry Butcher auction, with the same cheap plastic chairs and gaudy chequered floor tiles. Will the viewer get a ringside seat to a classier joint if and when the artist Noel Parma next feature such subjects? Noel Parma becomes well known in Malaysia with his participation in the International Sasaran Art Festival in Selangor. Self-taught, he has shown a natural ability for painting figures. His specialty was Drafting Technology, from the Technological University of the Philippines. His art prizes include 3rd Prize for sculpture in the Art Association of the Philippines competition in 1998, and the Landbank Mural Design and the Commemorative Stamp Design competitions in 1997 and 1998 respectively. Noel Parma had a solo called Nocturnal Labyrinth in Singapore in 2008, and took part in the Malaysia-Vietnam-Philippines exhibition at Wisma Kebudayaan Soka Gakkai in 2005, and the Malaysia-Philippines exhibition at Galeri Seni Mutiara, Penang, in 2013 – the year he took part in Sasaran Art Festival.

      Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
    • NOEL PAMA (b. 1961) UNTITLED, 2008, Oil on canvas
      Nov. 12, 2017

      NOEL PAMA (b. 1961) UNTITLED, 2008, Oil on canvas

      Est: RM5,000 - RM8,000

      Maybe it’s just a coincidence. The men in the dingy bar are all bald, including the waiter and the one man in the foreground sharing three women scantily-clad in nighties. The waiter seems to be whispering something in one of the hostesses’ ear. The picture funnels towards three shadowy figures in the lighted arched doorway. On the right, a seated man is slumped drunk with face and upper body over the table, while two men, yes bald, look on. Despite the VIP sign, one can gauge the classiness of a place from the cheap plastic chairs and the gaudy chequered floor tiles, and the hostesses are shod in string slippers. Randomly, the artist Noel Parma, better known for his figures with sharp pointed hairdos, pencil-white-lined some ‘cover’ for the two girls in front, one of whom is smoking and the other fiddling with her mobile phone. This bar could just be a pit stop where the action is probably somewhere more discreet nearby or even upstairs.Noel Pama, a familiar face in Malaysia through his association with the Sasaran International Festival, has shown natural ability in painting figures despite being self-taught. He graduated from the Technological University of the Philippines in Drafting Technology. Guess, that technically-inclined mind helps in a better understanding of anatomy. He has also tried his hands at sculpture, and won 3rd Prize for sculpture in the annual Art Association of the Philippines competition, which is of a high standard, in 1998. He had also won the Landbank Mural Design and the Commemorative Stamp Design competitions in 1997 and 1998 respectively. Noel Parma had a solo called Nocturnal Labyrinth in Singapore in 2008, and took part in the Malaysia-Vietnam-the Philippines exhibition at Wisma Soka-Gakkai in 2005, and the Malaysia-Philippines exhibition at Galeri Seni Mutiara, Penang, in 2013 – the year he took part in Sasaran.

      Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
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