Promised Land
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.
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.
Artists such as Habulan, Co, Justiniani, Mallari, Esquillo, and De Chavez experiment on formalism or abstraction to truthfully dwell on a genuine search for artistic possibility.
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.
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In the spectrum of my art practice lies as an inherent premise – Systems, Structures, Scales – wherein I identify as the totality of my being. Looking back at the past — in archival research to previous projects, I see this as a potential of interconnection through recurring time and space, that the things I do may intersect or not, in a recurring motivation to arrive in the totality of art.
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Enfolding through time and space, the waves from the sea reach distant shores in a neverending process of search, layering fluid information that is made and erased without cease, burgeoning towards the future away from past measures.
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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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