Homecoming

Marcushiro Nada

Opening:
Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 6 PM – Aug 24 at 6 PM

Exhibition runs until September 14.

Post Gallery
CubaoX, Quezon City, Philippines

There are several concurrent acts of homecoming in Marcushiro Nada’s new show, not least and most immediate being his return to gallery work, at least to gallery work of this scale and focus, and to the very gallery where he started from at that, after six years of nesting and eventually fatherhood, which is perhaps, in and of itself, his most crucial act of homecoming, and one that informs, whether deliberately or unwittingly or both, the temperament of the work, whose impetus is its attempt to simulate his collective memories of what home feels like in all its iterations: architectural, physical, spatial, environmental, emotional.

The actual assembly of the pieces, despite moving away from his figurative protocols to something more abstract, is the part that’s almost, to put it one way, muscle memory. What Nada puts a lot of creative and aesthetic premium into is the collecting of the objects he uses to form each piece, which took him all of those six years, sifting through heaps of abandoned detritus, objects discarded and leeched of their original value but which he eventually rekindles with new qualities and permutations, guided all this time by this odd sense of organized randomness. It’s the perfect distillation of his work and how it’s always had one foot firmly planted on the street calibrated to the parameters of a gallery setting.

Homecoming may connote a sense of arrival, but in the ultimate context of the show, it connotes more the getting there, homecoming as verb rather than noun, as means rather than end, as process rather than product.

– Dodo Dayao

After 6 years in solo exhibition hiatus, Marcushiro is back in the saddle with his 5th.

HOMECOMING features Marcushiro’s recent works culminating from past year’s explorations, musings, cataloguing, wandering, collecting and craft honing.

Swing by on the opening, August 10. 6PM at Post Gallery .

Everyone’s welcome.

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Marcushiro Nada is a multi-displinary artist based in Manila, Philippines.

His creative work revolves around graphic design, illustration, street art, painting and assemblage.

Interactions with people, the stories they tell and his habit of observing everyday life outside are very inspirational to his work as an artist. Discarded material, “treasures” to be found on streets occasionally end up as his art materials.

He is an artist by profession and a musician by passion.

IG/FB @marcushiro