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EVERYTHING TO DO WITH YOU

Performance tandem Costantino Zicarelli and Angelo V. Suarez continue
their investigation of space and language in their first two-man show
together, “The Suarelli Brothers Have Nothing to Do w/ Each Other.”

Billed as siblings whose surname is a conflation of their actual
surnames, Zicarelli and Suarez pair up to both interrogate and
celebrate the inherent violence of pairing: How do two things that
have nothing to do with each other — or people, such as themselves –
come together? The primary aesthetic (one can almost say ethic) or
technique that is apparent is juxtaposition: image against image,
person against person, praxis against praxis, system against system,
structure against structure. While the two profess no particular
allegiance to the Surrealist movement, one cannot help but be reminded
of the line by Le Comte de Lautreamont (considered a precursor of
Surrealism) in this emphasis on the notion of encounter: “Beautiful as
the chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting
table.”

True to their backgrounds, the artists engage the media that are most
familiar to them and they have become known for. Zicarelli, for
instance, in his focus on painting — with three well-received solo
exhibitions under his belt — makes use of large diptychs as a formal
strategy for interrogating couplings as varied as the somber and the
absurd, the clinical and the gritty. Suarez, on the other hand — with
three published books to his name — makes heavy use of words, finding
possibility for poetry that engages the site and materials it
inhabits, from photography as a means for documentation to mail not
just as medium for correspondence but as correspondence in itself.

“The Suarelli Brothers Have Nothing to Do w/ Each Other” opens
Saturday, August 1, at 6:00 p.m., and will at the blanc compound, 359
Shaw Blvd., Mandaluyong City. For more information, please call or sms
752-0032 / 0920-9276436, email info@blanc.ph or visit www.blanc.ph,
www.blancartspace.multiply.com

The exhibit will run until August 21, 2009.