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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in 1973 in Manila, the Philippines, where he continues to live and work, Ronald Ventura ranks as one of the most acclaimed artists of his generation in Southeast Asia. With their unique combinations of figurative motifs, his paintings and sculptures are now among the most recognizable images of contemporary art in Southeast Asia. His work features a complex layering of images and styles, ranging from hyperrealism to cartoons and graffiti. Ventura takes the layering process in his work as a metaphor for the multifaceted national identity of the Philippines. Over the centuries, the profound influences of various occupying powers - Spain, Japan, and the United States - along with the underlying indigenous culture, have produced a complex and at times uneasy sense of identity. Ventura explores this historical and psychic phenomenon through a dialogue of images evoking East and West, high and low, old and young - seen, for example, in allusions to Old Master paintings or Japanese and American cartoons. He draws our attention to the "second skin" of cultural signifiers that each person carries with him, however unwittingly. Ventura views skin as an expressive surface - written on with tattoos, concealed under layers of imagery, or exploding outwards to reveal an inner world of fantasy and conflict.

Ventura presented his first US solo exhibition, Metaphysics of Skin, at Tyler Rollins Fine Art in 2009, following up with A Thousand Islands in 2011, E.R. (Endless Resurrection) in 2014 and Wild State of Mind in 2017. A major solo exhibition of his work, Project: Finding Home, took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei in 2016. Other exhibitions of note include: Shadow Forest: Encounters and Explorations, Metropolitan Museum, Manila, the Philippines; Ronald Ventura: Big and Small, Ayala Museum, Makati City, the Philippines (2015); Bulul, Ronald Ventura and the traditional art of the Philippines, Museo delle Culture, Lugano, Switzerland (2014); Watching the Watchmen, Vargas Museum, Manila, the Philippines (2012); Recyclables, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore (2012); Surreal Versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (2011); A Duad in Play, ICA Gallery, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore (2010); Mapping the Corporeal, National University of Singapore Museum (2008). He was also a participating artist in the Prague Biennale (2009) and the Nanjing Biennial (2010).

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Tyler Rollins Fine Art - Artists - Ronald Ventura

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Born in 1973 in Manila, the Philippines, where he continues to live and work, Ronald Ventura ranks as one of the most acclaimed artists of his generation in Southeast Asia. With their unique combinations of figurative motifs, his paintings and sculptures are now among the most recognizable images of contemporary art in Southeast Asia.

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The Pacita Abad Art Estate has contributed approximately 500 images of the artist's work to the Artstor Digital Library. The selection in Artstor illustrates the artist's entire career from the 1970s to her final years and includes paintings, collages, prints, sculpture, ceramics, and the Alkaff Bridge.

The celebrated Philippine-American artist Pacita Abad (1946 - 2004) was born in Batanes, on a small island in the South China Sea. Her 32-year career began with her studies at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C. and The Art Students League in New York City. Abad became a nomadic artist, painting the globe while working on six continents. She created more than 4,500 works that have been exhibited in hundreds of museums and galleries around the world.

Abad's travels forged her artistic style, providing both ideological and technical inspiration. Her journeys also exposed her to the realities of women's lives in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Abad's humanitarian art comprised a wide spectrum, including: paintings of displaced people, political violence, and refugees; hand-stitched trapunto works depicting masks and spirits; nature renderings of the undersea world and tropical flowers; and, finally, her most vibrant, abstract painted textile collages and assemblages.

Abad's work is defined by color and transformation. She developed a unique style which she called trapunto painting that joined painted canvas with hand-stitched textiles, shells, mirrors, and other found objects. She also made prints, paper collages, and other works on bark cloth, glass, metal, and ceramics. Abad created public art installations, culminating in the painting of the 55-meter long "Singapore Art Bridge" (which she completed while she was being treated for cancer).

Abad's work is in museum collections throughout the world including the Fukuoka Art Museum in Japan, the National Gallery in Singapore, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea, the National Museum of the Philippines, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, the Museum Nasional of Indonesia, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, the Bronx Museum in New York, and the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey.

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The Pacita Abad Art Estate has contributed approximately 500 images of the artist's work to the Artstor Digital Library. The selection in Artstor illustrates the artist's entire career from the 1970s to her final years and includes paintings, collages, prints, sculpture, ceramics, and the Alkaff Bridge.

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View Andres Barrioquinto's 85 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, works on paper, and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist.

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Learn more about Mark Salvatus ( 1980). Read the artist bio and gain a deeper understanding with MutualArt's artist profile.

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Born 1980 in Montalban, Philippines
Lives and works in Bulacan, Philippines

At the heart of Rodel Tapaya's work is his ongoing amalgamation of folk narrative and contemporary reality within the framework of memory and history. Utilizing a range of media - from large acrylic on canvasses to an exploration of under-glass painting, traditional crafts, diorama, and drawing - Tapaya filters his observations of the world through folktales and pre-colonial historical research, creating whimsical montages of his characters. Each work has its origin in Tapaya's reflections on a particular time or place that possesses an enduring resonance, from its correspondence with the formalistic and psychological implication of the grid in his earlier works to protracted ventures which excavate and interpret myth and folk aesthetics. Inherent in the work is a tension between objective investigations of art and the subjectivity of perception and experience, providing his work with an enigma that comes from the impossibility to paint a story without revealing inflections made by the painter's hand.
Rodel Tapaya is one of the most active artists in Southeast Asia today. His breakthrough came when he was awarded the coveted Top Prize in the Nokia Art Awards, which allowed him to pursue intensive drawing and painting courses at Parsons School of Design in New York and the University of Helsinki in Finland. He completed his studies at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts.

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Selected solo exhibitions and art fairs include: "Rodel Tapaya", National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia (2017), "Rodel Tapaya - Bright Coloured Butterflies" Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany (2016), "ICA Off-Site: Hong Kongese" (2015), curated by Gregor Muir, Alia Al-Senussi and Abdullah AlTurki at Duddell's Hong Kong, Rodel Tapaya at Art Stage Singapore (2015), "Rodel Tapaya", ARNDT Berlin, Germany (2014), "Bato-Balani" at the Ateneo Art Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines (2014), "Cloudland" at the Art Hongkong, Hong Kong (2012), "Prism and Parallelism" at the BENCAB Museum, Baguio City, Philippines (2012), "Flowers of the Tongue" at the Vargas Museum, UP Campus Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines (2010) and "Mythical Roots" at the SOKA ART Center, Beijing (2009).

Selected group exhibitions are: "Passion and Procession. Art of the Philippines", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, ?Australia, "Pinto. Manila Manhatten", West Village, NYC, USA, "20th Sydney Biennale", Sydney, Australia (2016), "June a Painting Show", Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK (2015), "Bisa: Potent Presences" at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines (2011) and "Thrice Upon a Time: A Century of Story in the Art of the Philippines" at the Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2009).

RODEL TAPAYA

CURRENT SOLO EXHIBITION WITH RODEL TAPAYA AT THE ART FAIR PHILIPPINES

CURRENT SOLO EXHIBITION AT THE ATENEO ART GALLERY, MANILA, PHILIPPINES

ARNDT is proud to present the Rodel Tapaya publication "BATO-BALANI" published on the occasion of the solo exhibition at Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila, Philippines.

PAST SOLO EXHIBITION WITH RODEL TAPAYA AT ARNDT BERLIN

Press Release

Exhibitions

BAZAAR ART JAKARTA

Press Release

RODEL TAPAYA - 2015

PRESS

RODEL TAPAYA

DIAMOND IN THE DISTANCE

Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore

September 13 - October 25, 2015

Text by Thea Garing

View the complete publication HERE.

PRESS

Randian | WASAK! | 7 April, 2016

27 August - 8 October 2016

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ARNDT Contemporary Art GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG

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Born 1980 in Montalban, Philippines Lives and works in Bulacan, Philippines At the heart of Rodel Tapaya's work is his ongoing amalgamation of folk narrative and contemporary reality within the framework of memory and history.

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Ernest Concepcion (b. 1977) is a Filipino painter based in Manila, Philippines, who combines the motif of classical landscape with contemporary caricatures and representations that take one into the framework of warfare while uncovering the effects of a larger 20th-Century, Postwar existence. Concepcion began exploring this juxtaposition in a series of over 100 drawings from 2004 titled The Line Wars. Within each 9 x 12-inch panel the artist covered the pictorial space with cartoon-like conflicts, portraying chairs flying toward each other, monster-like eggs smothering a massive army of Saint Benedicts, or pasta fighting against the quick-sands of rice.

In 2008 Concepcion's vision of battlefield landscapes was realized on a much larger scale at the Kentler International Drawing Space where caricatures were tagged over landscapes and extended from floor to ceiling in the tall, narrow gallery space. In 2009 the artist presented a series of explosion paintings that consisted of enamel on steel. Colors became the physical layers of each mushroom cloud and marked the artist's shift further into the depths of conflicted horizon lines, away from caricatures.

He spent several years in Brooklyn, New York, where he participated in a number of art residences including The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) Workspace Program, the Bronx Museum of Art Artists-in-the-Marketplace (AIM) Program, the Artists Alliance Inc. Rotating Studio Program, the Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency, the LMCC Swing Space Program at Governors Island and an artist residency in Beijing, China via NY Arts Magazine.

A graduate of the University of the Philippines Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concepcion has produced a significant body of work with a particular interest in experimentation in the fields of painting, sculpture, and installation. In 2011 he was both a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) finalist in the Drawing Category and a Nominee for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. In 2012, he re-established his connections with some prominent Manila art galleries where he had two solo exhibitions, in West Gallery and Blanc Gallery respectively, and participated in a number of major group exhibitions including an artist feature at The Lopez Memorial Museum. In 2013, he participated at El Museo del Barrio's La Bienal in New York and had a solo exhibition in Minneapolis before returning back to Manila to exhibit at Art Informal, Secret Fresh, and 1335Mabini Gallery. In 2014 he became a Light & Space Contemporary resident artist and held his first-ever solo museum exhibition at the UP Vargas Museum showcasing entirely new epic scale works that not only marked a momentous return home for the artist but also became his ultimate artistic epiphany. He was given the prestigious 13 Artists Award by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in 2015. He divides his time as a full-time artist working between Manila and Brooklyn.

"Ernest Concepcion often works on large scale canvases, creating crowded, action-packed, and paint-encrusted battlefields or strange lands with storied characters. Soldiers overlap on stained wildernesses. A solitary beast-man walks in a jungle - all of Concepcion's paintings have something for us to decipher or clues to string into a narrative.

Concepcion himself is aware of his narrative style of painting or story-driven studio practice. And many of his works are brimming with a sense of conflict, of ruins, of storms, of the deluge, of invasions. It's imagery and process that, according to Concepcion, resonates with a culture that feeds on the discord of its socio-political landscape. Inequality, unrest, disorder, and violence in our streets and halls of power seep into our popular culture. Meanwhile, hope is ushered in by our beliefs, the promises of faith, the mercy of the supernatural, or the confidence in one's diligence and resourcefulness.

His imagery, however, is as much fed by what's epic, sinister, heroic, gigantic, and otherworldly in the popular culture he consumes - comic books, toys, games, science fiction, and music. Salvation finds its equivalent in clues drawn in, a gallant cavalryman with an electric guitar, a mythical six-eyed wolf, a godlike mechanism, and lights in the distance." - from Vintana.ph, 2020

OTHER LINKS:

Vintana
Asian Art Association
Artists Studios
Drawing Center Artist Registry
Brooklyn Arts Council Artist Registry
Brooklyn Arts Council Document
dOCUMENTO Records

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Ernest Concepcion (b. 1977) is a Filipino painter based in Manila, Philippines, who combines the motif of classical landscape with contemporary caricatures and representations that take one into the framework of warfare while uncovering the effects of a larger 20th-Century, Postwar existence.

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Elmer Misa Borlongan is a prominent contemporary Filipino painter best known for his distinctive use of figurative expressionism.

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View Lordy Rodriguez's artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Learn about the artist and see available works for sale.

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Jose Vicente P. Mapa III, who is better known by his screen nameJao Mapa (born February 11, 1976)

He is a popular actor in the Philippines. He's also an accomplished painter known by the name Jao Mapa.
In 2000, he decided to take a break from his showbiz career and went back to school to earn his degree in Fine Arts (major in Advertising) at the University of Santo Tomas.

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Jose Vicente P. Mapa III, who is better known by his screen nameJao Mapa (born February 11, 1976) He is a popular actor in the Philippines. He's also an accomplished painter known by the name Jao Mapa.

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LIFE AND WORKS

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The museum is composed of several galleries that house the permanent collection of Philippine National Artist Benedicto Cabrera (BenCab), his paintings, his collections of indigenous Cordillera art and the works of Filipino masters and contemprary artists.

When touring the BenCab Museum, visitors will also view the artist's personal collection of rice gods,

of indigenous art & crafts of the northern Philippine highlands such as lime containers, tribal weapons

and native implements that evidence the rich culture and traditions of the Cordillera region that have intrigued the artist since the 1960s, and one of the reasons BenCab took up residence in the City of Pines in the mid 1980s, upon his return to the Philippines from London in 1985.

Lounge at the coffee shop called Cafe Sabel and also enjoy the museum's garden with a duck pond, the organic farm with an aviary of local and imported fowl, plus a mini-forest with an eco-trail. Souvenir items, artbooks, paper products, wood carvings and textiles are for sale at the Museum Shop.

The museum is also being offered up as a new venue for art shows and exhibits Baguio City.

The BenCab Museum is on Asin Road, in an area known as Km. 6, Tadiangan, Tuba, Benguet, which simply means its six kilometers from the center of Baguio City. It would be advisable to get there by car or taxi cab since jeepneys getting out of there may be scarce.

When on Naguilian Road, watch for CooYeeSan Mall on your left because you will make a left turn on the road right before the mall. Keep heading straight downhill till you get to Asin Road and watch for markers that indicate Km 6. BenCab Museum will be to your left and travel time will take about 15 minutes given light traffic.

Jeepneys to Asin Road wait for passengers near the . It is advisable to contact a taxi cab to take you there and wait for you instead, since getting out of the area by jeepney may be a long wait. Baguio City Market

Open daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. except Mondays.

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The museum is composed of several galleries that house the permanent collection of Philippine National Artist Benedicto Cabrera (BenCab), his paintings, his collections of indigenous Cordillera art and the works of Filipino masters and contemprary artists.