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EDUARDO "TOTO" SICANGCO. Float and Costume Designs for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Together, group of 4 designs for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. "Pegasus Float," October 18, 2000. Mixed media, including gouache, dimensional paint, and mixed glitter on cardstock. 220x395 mm; 8 1/2x15 1/2 inches, on 9 3/4x16 1/2-inch board. Hand-titled in lower margin, signed "E. Sicangco" and dated "2000" in lower right image. Remaining costume designs, 2004. Mixed media, including color print base with overlays of gouache, dimensional paint, metallic paint, and glitter. Image sizes vary, each on 14x11-inch sheet. Each hand-titled and signed "Eduardo Sicangco" in lower image, dated [20]04 and rubber stamped in multi-colored ink with "The Greatest Show on Earth, 135th Edition" in lower right image.
Group includes: "Pegasus Float," "Shavrova," "Menage Dancer," and "Lady Stiltwalker."
"Pegasus Float, Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, 131st Edition,"is an original recreation of a float design meant to commemorate the final closing of the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Circus after 146 years. Others are commemorative costume designs for female performers in the 135th Edition of Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus.
For more than forty years, Sicangco has enjoyed a varied career designing sets and costumes for theater and film productions, as well as theme parks, cruise ships, and circus performances. He earned his MFA in stage design from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied under the award-winning set designer Oliver Smith. Sicangco worked as a Master Teacher of Design at NYU for eight years, and now teaches at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
The Filipino designer was the subject of a 2009 exhibition entitled "From Inspiration to Illusion" at the Ayala Museum in the Philippines. While he has spent the majority of his professional career abroad, Sicangco draws inspiration from his Filipino roots, stating,"They inform my sensibility and sensitivity as a designer and as an artist." (Sicangco quoted in The Philippine Star, November 9, 2008.)
