The UPLB Abstract Show
September 3 – October 3, 2019
Opens on 3 September 2019 @ 4PM
Sining Makiling Gallery
DL Umali Auditorium, UPLB, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
Abstract art proposes novel ways of producing and interpreting reality.
Compared to figuration, abstraction attempts to make sense of reality using various ways of knowing, not one is privileged over the others. The result is a plenitude of meanings and interpretations, the celebration of voices over the stability of monologism.
Breaking Ground brings together some eight of the country’s promising contemporary artists. Their techniques and forms of expression speak of the diversity of abstraction, a minefield in the Philippine visual arts scene.
Hopefully, the UPLB Abstract Show would result not only in a better appreciation of abstraction as a major force in art production, but also in sensing reality in more nuanced terms. Art is poised for flight from its form, yet transcending it in more ways imagined by the artist and the viewer.
(jryapo)
Featuring the works of
Binong Alvin Javier, Herbert Pajarito, Michael Pastorizo, Jay Ragma, Lara Latosa, Beatrix Syjuco, Valen Valero, Meneine Wong
