NOTES ON THE EXHIBIT
Inner voice
Magbanua’s works is all about shifting of medium from sound, digital works to performance art to abstract paintings. He belongs to a new generation of painters whose first medium is the computer. His compositional technique is based on musical sound akin to the theory of Kandinsky on the stressed and distressed of forms, with a twist of technology. The gray space corresponds to semi- low notes while his black forms are the lowest pitch the white is the highest pitch and so on.
The output of his own painting formula becomes a seduction of the image and pleasure of the visual. The means always justified by the end–product, the works border between the conventional and non-conventional; it does not attempt to decorate but it attracts and penetrate.
His works is the embodiment of struggle by middle-class Filipino to step out of mediocrity, neither derivativeness of artistic statements without any umbrella of acceptance from the greater westernized art theorist nor any assumption of validation from it.
“The call from the wild is somehow heard because the most powerful noise is to listen to our inner voice”.
Magbanua’s works is all about shifting of medium from sound, digital works to performance art to abstract paintings. He belongs to a new generation of painters whose first medium is the computer. His compositional technique is based on musical sound akin to the theory of Kandinsky on the stressed and distressed of forms, with a twist of technology. The gray space corresponds to semi- low notes while his black forms are the lowest pitch the white is the highest pitch and so on.
The output of his own painting formula becomes a seduction of the image and pleasure of the visual. The means always justified by the end–product, the works border between the conventional and non-conventional; it does not attempt to decorate but it attracts and penetrate.
His works is the embodiment of struggle by middle-class Filipino to step out of mediocrity, neither derivativeness of artistic statements without any umbrella of acceptance from the greater westernized art theorist nor any assumption of validation from it.
“The call from the wild is somehow heard because the most powerful noise is to listen to our inner voice”.
- - - Bobby Nuestro
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