Gromyko Semper
February 20 – March 14, 2021
Altro Mondo Creative Space | Spazio Franco Room
1159 Chino Roces Avenue, San Antonio Village, 1203 Makati
Altro Mondo presents The Mechanics of a Twittering Machine, a solo exhibition by Gromyko Semper. The show opens on February 20 and runs until March 14th.
In this exhibit, Gromyko Semper takes inspiration from Paul Klee’s painting “The Twittering Machine” which, like most of Klee’s works, melds the fields of biology and machinery together.
Semper channels the most recognizable iconography of Klee’s painting into this series, such as loosely sketched birds and hand-crank gadgetry, but injects his own idiosyncratic style to the mix, effectively bringing Klee’s 1922 work to the present. Semper’s typical proclivities are on full display here: his fondness for juxtaposing asynchronous color fields, ephemeral scribbles, scientific notations, and odd characters from different periods of history.
The works in this exhibit are characterized by a loose painterly approach, using old ephemera as a canvas for Semper’s superior academic drawing skills and contemporary painting techniques, but also as an instrument for experimentation.
Mechanics of A Twittering Machine, as a whole, reflects Semper’s wide-ranging influences, from the occult to science fiction and graphic novels. The series makes use of Semper’s outlandish visual style as a visual vocabulary to voice out the artist’s growing concerns about the role of technology on our humanity and its impending dystopic tendencies.
The gallery is located at 1159 Chino Roces Ave., Brgy. San Antonio, Makati City. Open from Mondays to Saturdays, 10am to 5pm. For inquiries, please contact by DM-ing on Facebook or Instagram or messaging or calling via Viber or Whatsapp at 09178887872.
