REFLECTIONS OF A DISCARDED SCREW

Alex Aguilar

Reflections of a discarded screw

1 April - 7 May 2009

In Alex Aguilar's latest painting exhibit Reflections of A Discarded Screw opening at Mag:net on April 1, the seeming disparate but not wholly unrelated elements are combined resulting in euphemistic pokes at metaphors that usually bespeak of the time-tested sentiments on mortality, faith and human existence.

In one painting titled, Flamdeenco, where a pile of donuts is intruded by a blue paint brush whose bristles are dipped in scarlet paint, an obvious innuendo may be forthcoming in such juxtaposition, but the titling makes such an association smirkily broken down and takes the very coded invented word as a ludicrous masking to someone who isn't in on the joke.

On another painting, titled Tears Shed For A Dead Sparrow, the evoked sense of tragic sentimentality is bluntly presented as a likely equation of black splatters and dead bird. The clichorn through by the double voids of the flat black of the splatters and the whirly white gray of the field where the dead bird floats in its blessed indifference.

The fact that the themes one may paint may veer on the hackneyed aphorisms that prescribe ways to look at one's existence with more insight and caution, the redundancy becomes a cycle of learning and unlearning these supposed insights. It is a screw that loosens and tightens in every tumble and tussle with life. This may perhaps necessitate the production of clichas to hammer in these things when the monkey wrench lets these screws and nuts come undone.

Reflections of A Discarded Screw will have its opening cocktails on the 1st of April at 6PM.

The exhibit will be on view until May 4, 2009.

Mag:net Gallery Ayala is at the ground floor of The Columns Tower 1, at the corner of Ayala Avenue and Buendia. For details or inquiries, contact the gallery at 929-31-91 or email info@magnetgalleries.com or visit www.magnetgalleries.com