Raul Jorolan
July 23 – August 26, 2020
Online Exhibit Launch
Saturday, July 23 | 5 PM
Altro Mondo Creative Space
1159 Chino Roces Avenue, San Antonio Village, 1203 Makati
KaBloom! is a series of 16 paintings by painter and filmmaker Raul Jorolan. It is the artist’s visual protest against the new, emerging threat to world peace brought about by recent world events involving the nuclear superpowers. The most prominent among these threats is the errant behavior of a rogue nation in Asia that has time and again, been test-firing their ballyhooed ballistic missiles with wild abandon in one of the world’s sensitive hotspots. This has caused much trepidation to the rest of world especially the immediate neighboring states.
A nuclear strike conjures images of unimaginable terror, vast devastation and untold deaths and misery which the world may never recover, what with the terrifying atomic payload that each of the present weapons possess. And there are thousands of these warheads with multiple targets all over the world.Just one deadly push of a nuclear button and…
KaBloom! A sudden twist! A timely save! There’s hope for mankind! There is no fiery explosion, no radioactive fallout! Instead the blast wave is exhilarating. It is a colorful blossoming of flowers bursting from ground zero. The onrush of energy shoots sky high towering in a blaze of glorious,vivid ebullience.Hitting a beautiful crescendo, it forms a bright billowing cloud of multiple effervescent blooms of all kinds and shapes. Lethal fumes to petal domes.
There is no massive destruction. The explosion is a transformation. A mushrooming ball of fire is a fiery zest for a vigorous life and absolute freshness! A massive attack of peace, love and happiness.
KaBloom!An ethereal, rapturous experience.
– Raul Jorolan, Artist
Raul Jorolan has a degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Santo Tomas. He started his creative career as an illustrator and accessories designer for a premium luxury department store developing his eye and taste for fine lifestyle trends. Moving into advertising he towered as an art/creative director in the ad industry in the Philippines and Hong Kong. He ventured into film directing becoming one of the leading TV commercial film directors and has been so until the present. He has since directed a full length movie (The Red Shoes 2010), Unplugged (2011), music videos, corporate videos, documentaries and short films. The relentless artist spirit in residence beckoned him to paint. And he happily heeded the call.
The exhibit will not have a formal opening but it will be available to view in person in our gallery from July 23rd to August 26th, 2020. There will be an online exhibit launch on July 23rd, 5pm.
For inquiries, please call (+632) 7501 3270 or +63 917 888 7872 or email altromondoart@gmail.com. The gallery is located at 1159 Chino Roces Ave., San Antonio Village, Makati City.
