Jonathan Olazo
August 26, 2019 at 6 PM – 9 PM
Underground
Makati Central Square, Chino Roces Ave., Legazpi Village, Makati City, Philippines
As art-fictions go, the IILS (Icarus is Lovesick Studio) is an allusive collaborative – a platform invented to accommodate unorthodox means of making art. Dating its dog days in and around 2003, its official launch came more than a decade later in a namesake-titled exhibition in MO_Space in 2016.
What is the IILS? It is a platform that operates via a single proprietor who taps into various ideas and utilizes various means of fabrication. What is the IILS about? It is a map that has no beginning and ending. Who is the IILS? A partial listing includes: A Japanese artist atop the Mori Museum who uses fish sauce as painting medium and thus makes a cultural commentary; Piet Mondrian and a particular boogie-woogie painting with the masking tape incidentally left on its surface; it is the visual mantras evoked in Robert Rauschenberg’s epic mural “Rebus;” and, Martin Kippenberger and his glorious installation “The Happy Ending to Franz Kafka’s America.” What is a rebus? It is a figurative and optical acrostic. What is the modus operandi of the IILS? It is to perceive the gray area and exploit the in-between.
The IILS acknowledges a few individuals and parties that have extended their valuable assistance – artists Jan Balquin, Tin Escario and Jaypee Samson for technical assistance for parts and pieces that are pivotal for the making of a whole; Azool Inc. for logistically assistance; and Nilo Ilarde for the curatorial support, and with Ronald Achacoso, for whom both have played a crucial role in conceptualizing and bringing into fruition this fictional collaborative.
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