Established artists from the Philippines whose practices investigate how their work, lifestyles and realities make up a complex society are featured in The Drawing Room, a gallery founded in Manila by director Cesar Villalon Jr. in 1998. The gallery features Philippine Contemporary Art icons such as Kiko Escora, and Kawayan de Guía along with Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, and Jose Legaspi who are critically acclaimed internationally. The Drawing Room supports interdisciplinary art processes, presents works at international art fairs, and also collaborates with public art institutions in Manila and the region to exhibit and acquire Filipino contemporary art.
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m/b LOCOMATE is a voyage of memory. New works in the exhibition enrich the metaphors Diokno Pasilan explores in his art practice about people and communities. Particularly informed by the motions of an islander people from the Philippines – a community where the artist grew up in – m/b Locomote constructs portraits from rust and into rice containers colloquial to the community.
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This group exhibition gathers three artists who examine the notion of technique in contemporary art practices. Martin Heine employs what he calls the “reverse iconography.” Literally working from the back of the canvas, his painting process is described as a performative act that denies the artist’s ego where each brush mark disappears into the void and goes to the core of art. Trek Valdizno achieves a similar obsessive aesthetic to his paintings but he goes through an equally tedious method in rolling oil paint into beads to make up his images. Thilo Westermann uses the old technique of reverse glass painting – a method, which, as opposed to regular oil painting, acts from front to back – to create a realistic depiction of objects that is usually only achieved in the medium of photography.
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