The Line That Holds The Crown

For Hive Art Fair, Dominic Mangila’s six large-scale paintings explore the potential relationships between the formation of Taal Volcano in the Philippines, quantum physics and painterly abstraction.

This complex system of temporality is a fertile variable to mix with the material quality of paint which has its own law of physics for viscosity, translucence and drying period. When affixed to each other, abstraction arises. Thus, he uses abstraction as a material and conceptual ‘recording apparatus’ of his attempts to imagine the Taal Volcano as it has been forming over the past half million years – and how it continues to morph infinitely into the future.

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