ECONVERSATIONS

RONALDO RUIZ presents his latest artworks in econversations on October 29, 2007, Monday 6:00 PM, at the Whitebox Studio in Cubao Expo, Romulo Ave. Araneta Center, Quezon City.

Combining painting, installation, performance, kinetic sculptures and interactive new media works, the artist seeks dialogue between technology and the environment. In econversations, Ruiz invites the audience to interact with his work, creating site-specific and time-based ephemeral art experiences.

“Communication grows with intervention,” the artist states, as organic elements are conceptually enmeshed with his abstract paintings and performance video. He manipulates plant life by adding them to found objects such as speakers and TV monitors, with the audience providing additional nuances to his artworks via circuit bending components. This multi-sensory experience questions the contemporary struggle of nature to catch up with technology as man asserts his futile attempt at conquering forces stronger than himself. Images overlap in an experimental and experiential situation created for a particular environment, probing the perception of control.

Ruiz is well-known for his paintings, installation and performance pieces combining traditional and new media. As one of the Thirteen Artists Awardees of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2003, he was cited as having “significant contributions to the expanding language and evolutionary dynamics of Philippine Contemporary Art.” He is also the artistic director of the Tupada Action and Media Art international action art events, and one of the youngest Outstanding Alumni of the University of the East College of Fine Arts. After his residency in Artspace in Sydney, Australia, Ruiz participated in several exhibitions and performance art events in Canada, China, Brunei, Dubai, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Yugoslavia. He recently participated in the 1st Nagano International Communication Art Festival in Japan.

econversations is open to the public from October 29 to November 15 at 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM, with the exhibition to commence with free performances by the artist at the Whitebox Studio in Cubao Expo, one of the fastest growing independent art spaces that caters to young breakthrough Filipino visual artists. For more information, please contact the Whitebox Studio through 4373839 or 09183499636. Email: whitebox_studio@yahoo.com.

ECONVERSATIONS

painting, installation, performance, kinetic sculptures and interactive new media works

opens October 29, 2007 @ 6:30 pm.

ends November 15, 2007 @ 9:00 p.m.