Melted City 5
From the very first Melted City in 2012, its current re-staging has evolved into an immense assembly of over 300 artworks hailing from two cities and even beyond—Manila and New York. Beginning with two pioneering artists and longtime collaborators, Louie Cordero and Jordin Isip, who first recognized the parallel trajectories of raw, boundary-pushing artworks reflecting the two cities’ complex histories and shared atrocities, Melted has become an anticipated event, offering a survey of where contemporary art stands across these two regions.
From the original works on paper to the now-predetermined 7 x 7’s, the show’s latest iteration is a sprawling grid of networks designed to include as many artists as possible from different places, while allowing artists to explore the impossibilities within the given frame. The fifth version embodies the connections between artists—the linkages, ties, and meshwork formed through interactions and affiliations. In this chapter, both curators expanded their reach to include recommendations and discoveries from other artists, broadening the matrix that defines the sensibilities of both cities.
Melted City 5 is the continuation of a fortuitous meeting between artists and their imaginations. It is an imaginary tradition for an imaginary place. Emitting blended pasts and futures, it is a space formed by merging indexes, figures, characters, and landscapes. It is what others might refer to as a congregation.
To say that this gathering has reached an unprecedented scale may not be far from the truth. Never before have two origins come together to form an assembly of this magnitude, to represent as many individual artists coming from opposite directions. Never before has the muddle and disarray coalesced into something more jumbled. Never before has what was melted become a solid mess of mesmerizing chaos.
/CLJ
Works
Alburoto - Man
Aleng Lukresya - Untitled
Alexandra Zsigmond - Eye Array III
Arta Ajeti - Waiting Room
Atsuko Yamagata - How Should We Chorus For Us
Auggie Fontanilla - Animal
Beki Song - Jingle Berry
Bjorn Calleja - Living Lump of Flesh
Blic - Stressball's Break
Bong Sanchez - Reading The Pallete
Buboy Cañafranca - Lucky Break
Christian Clayton - Love
Dandy Canalita - Sigaw ng Dilaw
Elijah Santiago - Burning Ocean
Eric White - Ingratiation
Erick Encinares - Trapology 01
Erika Shiba - Herethere II
Franco Mamaril - Walang Utang Ngayon Bukas Meron
Gelo Montiero - The Good Listener
Gino Bueza - AB-EX
Hamilton Sulit - Untitled
Hannah Salyer - Going Home
Hiroshi Kimura - Roadside
Hiroya Kurata - Untitled
Iggy Rodriguez - Discord
Isidro Santos - Untitled
James Ian Encinares - Minor Threat
James Tonra - Untitled
Jan Sunday - Central Sun
Jason Porter - Aurora, Patrick, Debbie, and John
Jeffrey Jay Jarin - Essential
Jeona - Thank You
Jigger Cruz - Tropical Breeze
Jobert Cruz - The World
John Marin - Untitled
Jojo Legaspi - 2 Written Images of What's to Become 2
Jordin Isip - Three-Way Crossover
Jose Tence Ruiz - The Eye - Alice the Guon
Josh Bayer - Untitled (Bad Memories - Self Compartmentalization
Julieanne Ng - Particle
Julius Bagoyo - Self-portrait as a hóngwèibīng
Jun Sabayton - Murmur
Justin White - Astral Traveller
Kenichi Hoshine - Celeste
Kenneth Santiago - Untitled
KikiPenguins - Mumble Adventures- Who Are They
Kohana Wilson - Flight Path
Kristian Henson - Untitled (Okinawa Street Photography)
Lauren Redniss - Window
Lea Rude - Untitled
Leonard Aguinaldo - Emmanuel
Louie Cordero - 4MC5
Lui Manaig - The Jester
Lyndon Maglalang - Untitled - Remnants
Margarita Mapa - Angels in Transit
Marionne Contreras - Underbrush
Mark Arcamo - Figurehead 9
Mark Jeffrey Santos - Gaze
Mark Nativo - Enlightened Path
Mary Bob - Pastime
Mc-Coy Lazaruz - Void
Mei Kanamoto - Untitled
MM Yu - Measures
Mu Pan - 3 Heads
Nial Hurd McCoubrey - Stasis
Pablo Zingapan - Scorched Earth
Paolo Icasas - Crazy
Paul Mondok - Crusader
Poklong Anading - Dragon Kite (no. 17 set 2)
Randy Gawwi
Ranelle Dial - Fragments
Renato Barja Jr. - Left Over
Renz Baluyot - Cross II
Rico Entico
Rob Leecock - Mister Pelican
Robert Gutierrez - Ditch Witch
Sarah Trigg - Untitled (Square Violet 1)
Scott Teplin - Big Dummy
Shivani Mithbaokar - She Who Prevails II
Simone Isip - Attention Seeker 01
Soika Vomits - Cum In The Face
Solana Perez - Instinct
Solaris Sun - Ebb and Flow
Stella Piburn - Spirit in the Mountains
Tad Pagaduan - Fly (1)
Trnz - Tasliman
Troy Ignacio - Minor Landmark
Wipo - Hinga
Yasmin Sison - Peaches and Cream
Zeke Aszman - Ok, Yeah But Where's The Poison
Lan Amante - One Day
Doktor Karayom - Kahit Saan Magsimula
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