Picture Not So Perfect

Mike Crisostomo

Blanc Gallery

5 April 2014

The scenes that are presented in Mike Crisostomo’s Picture Not So Perfect may seem simple nondescript pictures of landscapes that almost veer online pharmacy cialis towards didactic pictographs of typical land forms – here are mountain ranges standing static on arid land, here is a forest of dense chunky trunks opening to a clearing to some distant mountainous vista, here is a craggy rock mountain adrift on gray milky tides. Then another set of pictures comes in, upsetting this series, throwing back our assumptions of the whole exhibit. There now comes an apple set straight in the center, a silhouette of a couple copulating in a suburban home equally silhouetted against a broad stroke of gray maroon twilight sky, then a gnarling fanged mouth as like a cave equally fanged with stalactites and stalagmites framing views of another landscape.

Crisostomo describes each picture as sceneries, but not the picturesque type, not so perfect in that sense, in that they are flawed freeviagrasample-norx in its pursuit to be an ideal picture or in its attempt to picture paradise that they’re almost caricatures of that purported ideal. That these sceneries turn into sinneries as they infer to a paradise lost, hinted at by the apple, the copulating couple, the barren landscape, the abrupt appearance of a suburban structure, the fangs as intoning biting into the apple as a gateway to another place. Despite such allusions, these do not illustrate an allegory about the fall and the culpability of Adam, but rather as chained cialis pharmacy ellipsis to a speculation of an almost paradise, as an eternally fresh apple, an unchanging landscape, or cialis and viagra dont work in mid coitus to an orgasm, all produced by very primal strokes as goaded by a primal urge for release, painting in its primeval visual idiom.

Mike free viagra samples Crisostomo studied Fine Arts at The University of The Philippines and was into corporate managerial work before doing production design and graphics designing which eventually lead to focusing on art whose themes revolve around sublimating Sci-Fi utopian/dystopian visions through painting and photography. He is part of the collaborative project The Weather Bureau which had been featured in HK-based Pipeline magazine and which will be part of a show curated by Manuel Ocampo at The Metropolitan Museum of Manila this May.

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