Catching Delights

Saturday, February 21
at 6:00pm in UTC-02

Arte Pintura
The Address Condominium, Lobby, Wack Wack Rd. Mandaluyong, Metro Manila

We seize whatever it is that we are drawn to.

Catching Delights is a three-man show featuring Jeff Baligad, Jommer Mhei Bolesa and Lei Manto III. The show exhibits individual and collaborative hybrid paintings which are inspired by the artists’ personal desires and life experiences. Using different media, they communicate their objects of desire, may it be truth, lust, or reverence through their distinct styles.

Baligad’s works focuses on introspection. Using vivid hues, he characterizes his profound understanding of silence and how it sparks his object of desire, contentment that can be brought about when one engages in a deep intellectual exercise. People take part in internal monologues daily but only a few can actively immerse in a pool of calming mindfulness.

Carnal desires ignite Bolesa’s fancy. His playful imagery speaks of one’s capacity to endure and one’s will to participate in dark pursuits to satiate one’s craving. In Bolesa’s world, there is no keeping score when it comes to the desires of the flesh; lust is the dominating force.

A strong desire for fame and validation is what Manto’s pieces are all about. It may seem ambitious and almost irrational to aspire one’s self to be revered among gods and kings but Manto expresses his desire with slight caution. His works depict that seeking adulation is a tricky affair, for it can easily break one’s pride to the point of insanity.

The artists, Baligad, Bolesa and Manto, showcase their most coveted things – self-understanding, sexual pleasures, and notability.

– Jill Adolfo