October 3-31, 2019
Opening
Thursday, October 3, 2019 | 6 PM
Art Cube Philippines
Karrivin Plaza, 2316 Chino Roces Avenue, 1231 Makati
Vincent Padilla renders an urgent social concern by way of sculpture for this project. The composition is an installative collection of a hundred half-heads and five five-footer sentinels which give us as an instant sensation that reels from our soles. Our eyes actually are the first ones to feel this fizzle or current, as the impending suddenly becomes visible even without all other apertures of a mise-en-scène of a disaster. The cryptic totems are here, stolid and reticent as if they never came from the artist’s fabrication shop. The works, like ancient monuments, are reminding us of a place and time that might be. At the controlled indoor setting of the gallery floor and amidst the metropolitan throb of the public square, we are enforced to linger. The invitation to stay and interact emanates all from the surface. We are literally grounded and so are the objects, but the cast of characters are condensed to be imagined to exist under our line of sight. The species’ hollow eyes are crafted to gaze straight on, towards somewhere or something else, never rising or direct to meet and encroach ours.
ANINAG by Paolo Icasas
OUT OF DEPTHS by Kristone Capistrano
ROMANCING THE INEVITABLE by Vincent Padilla
FATHER FIGURE by Daniel Coquilla and Kris Soguilon
