Opens, June 11, 2019 at 6 PM
Exhibit runs until June 30
Arte Bettina
3rd Floor, Greenbelt 5, Ayala Center, 1224 Makati
“To me Art’s subject is the human clay,/ And landscape but a background to a torso;/ All Cezanne’s apples I would give away/ For one small Goya or a Daumier.” Thus the poet W. H. Auden on his decided preference for figurative art, or the depiction of the human body.
A critic for the New York Times also weighed in: “Applied to painting in our own time, it has an altogether disputatious ring. It stands for a view of art in which abstract painting is at best a respected absentee, at worst derided outcast.”
Aware that the history of art, starting with prehistoric cave paintings, commenced with the study and celebration of the human body, Arte Bettina fittingly presents, as its inaugural offering, a group show titled “Unravelling Bettina: Figuration Now.” The show opens on 11 June.
Among the featured works are De Juras’s “Repentance,” which examines the behaviour of the human body impelled by psychic and emotional upheavals. Successive human movements, in stroboscopic linear projection, gyrate in Norlie Meimban’s “Girl.” In “Na- Pollock”, Toti Cerda conveys his defiant struggle to emerge from the quicksand of abstraction, allusion to American abstractionist Jackson Pollock.
“Abundance” is Darby Alcoseba’s visual ode to fishermen returning to shore at golden dawn with a fresh catch. Innocence embodied by two cowboy-outfitted lads on a night-out is the theme of Ricky Ambagan’s “Yolo.” Cezar Arro’s “Look Back” highlights a woman’s visage in a sensitively modulated facial gesture. Josue Mangrobang’s “Protracted Controversy” harks back to man’s evolution from ape-hood.
Other participating artists are: Jaime Gubaton, Philipp Ines, Gerry Joquico Jr., Lei Manto, Jerry Morada, Otto Neri, Jim Orencio, Ju-Vi and Orley Ypon.
The show runs until 30 June 2019.
Arte Bettina is at the 3/F, Greenbelt 5, Ayala Center, Makati City. For inquiries: 0995 990 8202 / info@artebettina.com
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