Friday, September 27, 2019
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Museum Visit
Given with enough time and energy, I could have visited the National or Metropolitan museum but visiting nearby galleries such as Galerie Joaquin | Modern and Contemporary Art in UP Town Center was not a disappointment at all.
Was able to witness two exhibitions from two artists that I am not completely aware of. I guess one of the challenges in Art Criticism is to provide formal analysis first as concrete as possible, before reading into the artist's statement.
Even from afar, the works of Aldrino Abes really catches my attention as familiar figures were reproduced in a large scale replica, but the moment you get nearer, the details will astound you as instead of the accurate imitation of stroke of a certain classical painting, it was rendered on a "pixelated" version.
Johannes Vermeer's "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" and "The Milkmaid" are one of the chosen subjects that Aldrino Abes chosen to be rendered on how he see these masterpieces. His version of these portraits were as if being zoomed in and due to limited resolution, one can see a pixelated image. The results blurr the images in a cubist approach but as a human eye is trained to make sense of the image as a whole together with the viewers familiarity of the classical artwork, then somehow our mind will do the trick of mixing both images (the one we have remembered and the one we are currently seeing) together.
They said "Imitation" is the highest form of compliment. Well, for me, this kind of version has completely impressed me as it somehow give us a new light of how we see classical artwork in the most latest composition.
Aldrino Abes exhibit was entitled Disassembled Assembly which only ran from August 16 to 25 of which was preceded by another exhibiting artist, Raul Isidro with his exhibit entitled: Colorati which has been extended until further notice (Supposedly only up until September 4, 2019)
Most of his work on this collection were medium scale, ranging from 2 x 2 feet to 2 x 3 feet in sizes. His medium is mostly acrylic on canvas. At first glance his works remind me of the "Color Field" art movement of which dominated by the works of Mark Rothko and Ronie Landfield, with the similar lush paint strokes but with cut out figure on a plane colored background.
The juxtaposition of these painted blocks make you think of cut out papers pasted on a cardboard. The result is like a collage of painted blocks with some color gradient strokes here and there. There are times, the solid blocks are either splashed with heavy colored stokes to scratched layers revealing the initial colors underneath.
His works somehow mystified me as I cannot fathom what is he trying to portray until I was able to check on the titles and artist's introduction for this collection. It was mentioned that he spent some time in the western part of Samar, specifically Calbayog which was donned with melancholic landscape and beautiful sunset. So I imagine painting a landscape and then cut it out to pieces and have it pasted randomly and then framed it---very tricky and such a marvelous technique.
Images and reference link (as of 09/12/2019):
https://www.galeriejoaquin.com/exhibitions/
https://www.http://agimat.net/colorati/
Was able to witness two exhibitions from two artists that I am not completely aware of. I guess one of the challenges in Art Criticism is to provide formal analysis first as concrete as possible, before reading into the artist's statement.
Even from afar, the works of Aldrino Abes really catches my attention as familiar figures were reproduced in a large scale replica, but the moment you get nearer, the details will astound you as instead of the accurate imitation of stroke of a certain classical painting, it was rendered on a "pixelated" version.
Johannes Vermeer's "The Girl With a Pearl Earring" and "The Milkmaid" are one of the chosen subjects that Aldrino Abes chosen to be rendered on how he see these masterpieces. His version of these portraits were as if being zoomed in and due to limited resolution, one can see a pixelated image. The results blurr the images in a cubist approach but as a human eye is trained to make sense of the image as a whole together with the viewers familiarity of the classical artwork, then somehow our mind will do the trick of mixing both images (the one we have remembered and the one we are currently seeing) together.
They said "Imitation" is the highest form of compliment. Well, for me, this kind of version has completely impressed me as it somehow give us a new light of how we see classical artwork in the most latest composition.
"The Girl With a Pearl Earring"
Artist: Aldrino Abes
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimension: 48 x 36 in
"The Milkmaid"
Artist: Aldrino Abes
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimension: 48 x 36 in
Most of his work on this collection were medium scale, ranging from 2 x 2 feet to 2 x 3 feet in sizes. His medium is mostly acrylic on canvas. At first glance his works remind me of the "Color Field" art movement of which dominated by the works of Mark Rothko and Ronie Landfield, with the similar lush paint strokes but with cut out figure on a plane colored background.
The juxtaposition of these painted blocks make you think of cut out papers pasted on a cardboard. The result is like a collage of painted blocks with some color gradient strokes here and there. There are times, the solid blocks are either splashed with heavy colored stokes to scratched layers revealing the initial colors underneath.
"Formation"
Artist: Raul Isidro
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimension: 20 x 16 in
"Midsummer Landscape"
Artist: Raul Isidro
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimension: 24 x 24 in
His works somehow mystified me as I cannot fathom what is he trying to portray until I was able to check on the titles and artist's introduction for this collection. It was mentioned that he spent some time in the western part of Samar, specifically Calbayog which was donned with melancholic landscape and beautiful sunset. So I imagine painting a landscape and then cut it out to pieces and have it pasted randomly and then framed it---very tricky and such a marvelous technique.
Images and reference link (as of 09/12/2019):
https://www.galeriejoaquin.com/exhibitions/
https://www.http://agimat.net/colorati/
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