AArte Ko Lab

2025 Exhibitor: Art Cube Gallery ()

Artist: Guerrero Habulan
Title: The Kingdom has come
Medium: Oil and acrylic on canvas
Size: 48 x 36 inches
Year: 2022

ART FAIR PHILIPPINES 2025
February 21-23 | 10am-9pm
Ayala Triangle Gardens, Makati City
www.artfairphilippines.com

For ‘The Carbon Footprint of the Stoic Heroic’ Jose Tence Ruiz presents mixed media works and self-portraits from the late 1970s alongside new works on canvas, a large installation that spans almost the entire large gallery space, and another depicting the artist’s body in the small gallery. The exhibition opens tomorrow, 17 October 2024, with an opening reception from 4 to 6 PM at Silverlens Manila. Tence Ruiz reappropriates religious iconography and Mondrian’s geometric abstractions to produce new visual metaphors for his current thematic preoccupations: disillusionment, genocide, and the death of utopia. There is a total of nine new works in the show, the centerpiece of which is a large mixed media installation of a baptismal font encircled by a circular queue of several hundred empty water containers, resembling a living rosary and evoking a perverse litany. The painting after which the show is titled, in addition to three others, utilizes Mondrian’s visual language to symbolize the degradation of utopia and the disillusionment that has haunted the artist in a time of genocide. ‘The Carbon Footprint of the Stoic Heroic’ by Jose Tence Ruiz is on view from 17 October to 16 November 2024 at Silverlens Manila. 🔗 Click here to learn more about the exhibition: https://www.silverlensgalleries.com/exhibitions/2024-10-17/the-carbon-footprint-of-the-stoic-heroic #JoseTenceRuiz #Silverlens

Philippine Arts in Venice Biennale - PAVB The Philippine Arts in Venice Biennale (PAVB) project is a collaborative undertaking of the NCCA, DFA, and the Office of Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda. The PAVB Coordinating Committee manages the sustained Philippine participation in both Art and Architecture Exhibitions of La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy.