The Philippine art scene has always been forward-thinking in its exploration and criticism of contemporary society. In their practice, artists such as Manuel Ocampo, Jigger Cruz and Christina Lopez highlight a consideration and deliberation of art-making that grapples with the kind of imagery and concepts created.
Rocky Cajigan’s second solo exhibition at The Drawing Room, Place Of Origin, is on view until May 20. Place of Origin is an intimate study of land as body, a prompt into the violences of dominance attitudes over the nonhuman.
Alvin’s grandfather served as a sniper in the Philippines during WW2. He often shared his war stories to the artist who was very young at the time. These stories, in addition to a life spent drowning in mental illness and the haunting ghosts of war, became part of an intergenerational sharing and succession of trauma and pain.
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Dominic Mangila presents a solo exhibition titled “Pastures of Plenty” which features a new series of works that combines history painting and meta – narrative.
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What the artists Kyungmook Kim, Inhwan Oh, and Ahram Jeong have in common is not the subject matter of their works but their tendency to deal with Korean society’s cultural issues in the perspective the Other, especially feminist and queer perspectives. These perspectives are manifested in their constant artistic efforts that visualize cultural issues long avoided by Korean society.
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bid Melbourne Art Fair 2022 February 17 – 20, 2022
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Amy Aragon and Jay Ticar have been working on family and immigration by individually or collaboratively articulating meanings of home through architectonic configurations and constructing imagined scenes.
The Expanding Cluster of Particles and the Birth of New Planets Read More »
The memory of those lost paintings that disappeared with unrecognized view of life, is Maria Cruz’s current solo exhibition that remembers and grieves several works she had lost on a flight to Melbourne last 2022.
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Conrado Velasco was born in Manila. Studied Architecture and Fine Arts @ University of the Philippines Presently resides in Berlin, Germany and Kilkenny, Ireland.
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