Presenting Sam Penaso’s 27th solo exhibition STEEL LIFE at the Megamall Art Center following his grand prize win at the Don Papa Rum Art Competition and residency in London; Galerie Francesca offers a substantial number of the acrylic silkscreened images over stainless steel sheets which enabled the win, along with a representative number of his …
Month: September 2019
“PALACE OF MEMORY” MARIO DE RIVERA @ Art Lounge Manila
Images appear to float in mist and gold in Mario de Rivera’s works, as if appearing directly from a stream of consciousness, they appear in a seeming snapshot of a flux: a moment frozen in all its eternity. The body of work presented in Palace of Memory, his 26th solo exhibition at Art Lounge Manila, …
“Mesmerized” GERRICO BLANCO @ Galerie Francesca
Gerrico Blanco has gained recognition among collectors for his paintings of children engaged in play and the act of dreaming. Often, his earlier works juxtaposed children playing innocently, with elements of what they want to be: a boy in a box becomes a racecar driver, or a child drawing a building becomes, in her mind, …
“Colorati” by Raul Isidro on view at Galerie Joaquin U.P. Town Center
Raul Isidro’s works are deeply personal, reflecting reference points of a life spent in Calbayog, Western Samar. He had spent significant time in this coastal town – mesmerized by its blue seas, the colors ranging from gray to green, and the luminescence that comes in with a full moon at low tide. For “Colorati”, Isidro …