Gossamer
Colors annihilate.
Occupy: form and content.
Paint a head, a flower, a mountain, text.
Paint em all on equal terms.
Colours wrap around.
Colors annihilate.
Occupy: form and content.
Paint a head, a flower, a mountain, text.
Paint em all on equal terms.
Colours wrap around.
“The title is borrowed from Clarice Lispector’s novel Agua Viva, a reminder of the atmosphere by which these paintings were made: the humming aggression, a silent rhythm, and the wonder of arriving at what I want to see.”
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Juni Salvador subdivides his Australia bring-backs, found objects and Philippine-themed curiosities brought into Australia into an assemblage and installation onto two opposing walls and spaces of the gallery classified as the Australian “Oi! Oi! Oi!” and Philippine “Hoy! Hoy! Hoy!”.
Re Inventing Histories/Re Inventing Stories Read More »
Trek Valdizno’s versatility as an painter has been showcased through numerous solo and group exhibitions
in the local and international art scene. He has commissioned works hanging in the walls of City of
Dreams, Windford Hotel and Casino, Solaire Hotel and Casino, and 8 Rockwell among others.
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Mark Salvatus’s solo exhibition at The Drawing Room asks about ways to relax. Salvatus’s proposition on relaxation is
centered around the word ‘state,’ which connotes many things— a condition, a situation, or a mode of being.
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“Echoes” is a collection of artist books that was shaped into emolished structures. Interiors of
these structures consist of photographs that show
residual traces of what was once, probably, someone’s house.
In presenting ten plank-like paintings for the exhibition,
the artist critiques the Western modernist trope of
minimalist paintings leaning on walls. Influenced by artists
such as John McCracken, Blinky Palermo, Raoul de Keyser,
Marthe Wery, and Jo Baer, the artworks challenge the
boundary between sculpture and painting.
In a literal, allegorical, and abstract sense, The Promised Land
is an embodiment of a long-sought desire, a destination
where one’s hopes are realized on arrival.
Such a vision is what Victoria Montinola brings to light.
“Everything We Don’t Know” by
Gene Paul Martin confronts the problems posed by the history
of painting, creating a spectacular evisceration of what we do
know of our modernist past into painterly amalgamations of
ethno-futurism and animism, magical realism and mutant
abstraction, as well as a haunting-ontological aesthetic on the
idea of man.
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The Drawing Room regards 14 young artists and their painterly visions, gestures, and language, that suggest the gradations of artistic process of an incoming generation of contemporary Filipino painters.