BASTARDS OF MISREPRESENTATION: “DOING TIME ON FILIPINO TIME”
Bastards of Misrepresentation: Doing Time on Filipino Time is a group show dealing with issues about aesthetic autonomy, social critique and the philosophical politics of expression, variant material economies and the alternate conditions of authenticity, and information distribution through shared affinities.
Sampaloc cave paintings
In patinated tones of somber blues, greens and tinges of ochre reminiscent of mid-century grammar books, the painted scenes portend to fables of dissolving borders between the acclimatized fantasy engendered by media and the real. Somewhat a refashioning of Plato’s cave where it is purported that those who have stayed in the cave too long are in danger of amusing themselves too much with mere shadows, real life passes by them in their unwitting isolation from them.
The sort of black claymore paintings
Enter the dragon. In 1988 when Dave Hickey proclaimed that the issues for artists during the 90s would be beauty, pleasure and efficacy, he was not prepared for the response. The majority of art world insiders (those who had at least come across a Hickey text) saw his call to beauty as something akin to decorativeness, glamour, elegance and grandeur.
Absolute Horror
“Terror is a man” and horror is our fascination for it. Whatevercomes out of its fanged gnawing mouth leaves no absolute space for thinking, its awesome indescribability drawn from the probability of the unseen or even the unimaginable come alive. This re-engagement with the morbid fantasy of prepubescent awakening by Fangoria and Clive Barker mixed in with the horror vacui- jeepney graphics profusely converge in Louie Cordero’s Absolute Horror.
ALICE IN CHAINS, ANSO’S EARS: A LOVE AFFAIR RENEWED
At the Golden Gods thing back in April, I really perked up when Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell came down the press line. It was surprising and weird because I was not aware that his band remained significant to me.
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