Opening: May 4, 2017
Shows run until May 18.
Galerie Anna
4th Floor Building A, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City
Galerie Anna presents a back-to- back show of two abstractionists, Gary Custodio’s “Connected” (East Wing) and Valen Valero’s “Breakthrough” (West Wing) on May 4, 2017. The simultaneous exhibition of artists working in the same non-representational idiom affords the audience a view of the fertile resources of both color and form, in distinctive, signature styles that define each artist’s power of expression.
Award-winning artist Gary Custodio examines the nature of light and geometry and the way each connects and absorbs the other in a oneness of purity and simplicity, conveying a deeply meditative and mysterious spirit of art. His ideas on color veer towards the minimalist vein, reductive, rather than projective, in its implicit references to transcendence and immateriality. Custodio dispenses with complex configurations, preferring instead the severe geometry and structural discipline of the grid.
In contrast, Valen Valero generates visual excitement with the unexpected turn of her new works, piled with non-traditional mixed-media materials brimming with the fervor of experimentation. The works are relief constructions, assemblages projected from the picture plane with diagrams and directions, signaling movements that derail the eyes from familiar paths. An innovative approach comes with Valero’s irregular shaped canvases, echoed by the protrusions of wooden armatures nailed around the pictorial edge, a decisive break from spatial limitations.
Both shows run until May 18.
– Cid Reyes
