A two-man show by Mac Valdezco and Eugene Jarque
In their two-man exhibition, Riding in Circle, Mac Valdezco and Eugene Jarque contemplate the cyclical nature of reincarnation, or the constant pursuit and rebirth of perfection in art.
Valdezco’s biomorphic forms – hewn out of scrap cloth and cotton tape in previous lives – are reborn into thick fabric skins; sculptural pieces by needle and impasto. Her monoprints, the organic cosmos on paper by way of thread, reveal the spiral ascent of her textile works. The universe expands and contracts in Valdezco’s body of work, and patterns recur with the desire to alter and refine past discoveries.
Jarque’s bold aluminum geometric structures, in parallel, progress in dimensionality. Painting gives way to form and structure, with the artist’s sculptural pieces elevating acrylic, aluminum, lead, and wood fragments. The richly textured multimedia abstractions retell social realities in bits of paper, soil, enamel, gesso, and metal etched with acid. Beyond canvas or paper, Jarque’s work embodies cultural transmissions of physical and immaterial worlds, and the indestructibility of pure artistic inspiration.
Joined by an evolving consciousness, Valdezco’s assemblage and Jarque’s mixed media works are the constructs of a cyclic artistic existence. Riding in Circle is a fraction of an endless continuum – a continuity of the soul of art, not its flesh; beginnings, but never endings. Against this eternal search for the ideal, Valdezco and Jarque maintain the rigid discipline of child-like exploration, experimentation, reinvention, and constant motion towards the next inception.
Both Valdezco and Jarque are recipients of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ prestigious Thirteen Artists Award. Riding in Circle opens on 04 December 2010 and will run until 30 December at Blanc Manila Peninsula, G/F Peninsula Hotel, Makati City. Gallery hours are from __ pm – __ pm, Mondays thru Saturdays. For
further enquiries, please call telephone numbers 752 0032 or 0920 927 6436.
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