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April 16, 2009
Thursday
COSTANTINO ZICARELLI

The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste

Costantino Zicarelli, slowly emerging from the stark reductions of the “black and white” paintings, has added canny touches of color in his recent inquisition into the tomographics of a personal history.

“The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste” opens on Thursday, the 16th of April at Art Informal with a selection of works in Oil on canvas and Mixed-media. The exhibit runs until May 10, 2009.

Artinformal is at 277 Connecticut St, Greenhills East, Mandaluyong City. Telefax 63(2)7258518, sms +63918.899.2698 or visit: www.artinformal.com. Gallery Hours: 10am – 8pm, Mondays to Saturdays

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Artinformal

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In his recent body of works entitled “Portraits” opening on February 26th at Art Informal, sculptor and mixed media artist Renato Ong offers a compilation of portraits of urban sensibilities. Intended as a parody of virtues and vices, the narrative is integrated in the play of elements evoking eastern Christian icons wherein the sacred merges with the mundane. Virtues co-exist with vices, a yin and yang, with no clear-cut delineation between good and evil. In the same vein, institutionalized concepts are fused with the fold indigenous.

Surface encrustation typical of ‘Illuminations’, is recreated using fiberglass along with commonplace materials such as nuts and bolts, cables and metal castings.

In direct contrast with a simultaneous exhibition featured at Avellana Gallery entitled “Basilica” wherein relatively plain anthropomorphic posts are assembled to evoke a serene and meditative space, “Portraits” deal with folk urban realities. Heavily textured, fragmented, and vibrant!

Incorporating a lusty mix of traditional and fold indigenous imagery, Renato Ong creates tension both complex and contradictory, stretching the boundaries of conventional art.

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“Arteries and Excavation”

Recent Sculptures in stone, glass and metal

by

Mervy Pueblo & Noell EL Farol

February 5, Thursday, 6 pm.

Art Informal, 277 Connecticut Street, Greenhills East, Mandaluyong City

Telephone  725.8518

EL Farol exhibits his new cast glass and constructed steel “assemblies” as concurrences of Archaeology and Sculpture. His “Excavation” pieces reconstruct the recovery of diagnostic artefacts as metaphor of Archaeology.

Mervy Pueblo explores the potentials of natural and modified stone in her search for universality and purity in the sculptural form.

Pueblo and El Farol represented the Philippines in the International Sculpture Symposium held in Russia last October 2008.

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The most GENUINE Regret

A Solo Exhibition by Tatong Recheta Torres
hosted by Artinformal

Tatong Recheta Torres

Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 6:00pm
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 9:00pm

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