This exhibition features four Filipino artists Josue Mangrobang, Malyn Bonayog, Nelson Ante Bosita and Rene Cuvos. Their common artistic concept is to go beyond the superficial reality of the everyday world and explore the secret meanings of the material surface where each artist chooses their own particular route in paths previously unexplored.
Josue Mangrobang is concerned with the leaps and transitions of growth from early childhood to adolescence and maturity. Malyn Bonayog brings out the themes of time, memory and space intertwined in highly original images who is particularly concerned with the subject of children and relationship of generations. Nelson Ante Bosita does in his own dramatic way as he deals with the binaries of concealment and revelation. Rene Cuvos deals with a whole range of hand gestures, physical stances as well as to various symbols which are archaic as well as modern that may involve everyday familiar objects endowed with comic meaning.
One East Asia is proud to present Senses and Beyond as part of the Philippine Art Trek 2013. The Philippine Art Trek, which began in 2007, is the largest annual expo of Philippine art outside the Philippines. It showcases works by emerging and established artists from the archipelago, and continues to be the centerpiece of the Embassy’s cultural diplomacy program.
