Lansgage

Jack Mernin’s first solo exhibition in the Philippines

Kanto
2nd Floor, Makati Square, Chino Roces Avenue,, 1230 Makati

Artist reception
August 25, 2018 | 7PM

Artist Talk with Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz
August 28, 2018 | 7PM

“Lansgage” – Jack Mernin’s first solo exhibition in the Philippines opens on August 25, 2018, 7PM #DitoSaKanto

LANSGAGE was the term invented by Marcel Proust and Reynaldo Hahn to describe their coded language used in their personal correspondence.
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Jack Mernin has organized an intimate show of one large abstract painting, a set of accompanying watercolors, and an editioned, handwritten zine.

The exhibition displays three methodologies integral to Mernin’s practice. Condensing seen, direct studies on paper; atmospheric forms which coalesce onto a human-scaled painting; and reflective, word-based operations, behaving much like Mernin’s imagery (as pared form selected for the sake of imaginative expansion).

The associative correlations that arise between image and word, sensuousness and cognition, fluctuate with each beholder and at every successive viewing experience. Mernin wishes to carve a considered position that encourages other encounters during separate, unpredictable times. Establishing a moment that is morphed through the act of looking, his paintings are bound to a playfully serious game of possession and retention, catch and release. The risk enacted is thus visualized as an indecisive state where sentences remain in flux, until

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Jack was born in 1991 and divides his time between Manila and Belleville, Pennsylvania. He holds a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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