After Juan Alcazaren’s last show, entitled “Juan Alcazaren’s Last Show” in 2012, he presents recent works for “Zero Ground.” These sculptures problematize the contemporary language of sculpture: while there is an idea that the medium requires no illusory ground to exist, how do can we remain faithful to a practice that requires sequential reference to preceding works?

In this exhibition we are to encounter again the artist’s particular relationship to found industrial-like and domestic materials, and we attempt to make sense of his process vis-à-vis the knowledge of his architectural background. Alcazaren wrestles with encumbered meanings from his old works and burdens his new pieces with new sentiments in “Zero Ground.” Here, he apologizes as he makes the same mistakes.

About the artist:

Juan Alcazaren graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of the Philippines in 1983, after which he took foundational courses in sculpture from the institution’s College of Fine Arts. He is an animator and the director of Alcazaren Bros. Production from 1989 and has received the 13 Artists Award in 2000. Alcazaren’s practice has been featured in solo exhibitions since 1992 in the Philippines.

-The Drawing Room

Image: © Juan Alcazaren
Courtesy of the artist and The Drawing Room Contemporary Art