Wazzup Pilipinas!
In his second solo show and comeback exhibition, Of Gods and Patriots, artist Raymond
Katawaki Go delves into the question of power and its immanent contradictions
by projecting ancient and contemporary images, of the religious and the secular
in an attempt to call and respond to myth and reality. These arresting images
turn into a social introspection to review the historical past and
institutional ideas that are so intrinsic to intervention and inquiry but with
a pulse on the present based on the artist’s understanding and impressions of
these realities.
After years of hiatus, Kawataki Go comebacks with a major
show at Cevio that re-registers his remarkable artistic skills and passion for
art and instigation of critical thoughts.
Meanwhile for his fourth solo exhibition, Messengers, Jessie Mondares personifies
his work as messengers, acting as a metaphor and as a material carrier of his
intentions and ongoing aesthetic actions. Mondares mixed media paintings have are
rendered with palpable exploit on pen and ink and acrylic. His collocation of
elements that are often layers of discernible--- figures and anatomical fragments of humans and animals with
expanded limbs and exaggerated forms meshed with patterns, lines and o ther
assigned elements and certain motifs morphing in shapes and reappearing
liberally in his paintings.
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