Man and the Sea: Wahoo Guerrero
02 July – 14 August 2011
Upstairs Gallery
Manila Contemporary is pleased to present a solo exhibition by established photographer Wahoo Guerrero. Well known for his work in Fashion Photography, Guerrero is a multi-disciplinary creative practitioner working across painting and fine art photography with a variety of interests that shape and shift his practice. His extensive travels and time spent abroad in Spain has provided Guerrero with an acute sense of detail, color, texture and light that embodies his emotive and sensitively realized photographs.
Man and the Sea is Guerrero’s latest body of work that centers around the fishing villages Matuod and Reina in the coastal areas of Batangas. Creating an impressionistic portrait of peoples and landscape, Guerrero presents tableaus from daily life and natural beauty as well as the subtle complexities of coastal communities who live and work on the land and seas. Through a sophisticated understanding of the medium of photography Guerrero contributes an elegant glimpse into provincial identity as well as the powerful relationship between Man and the environment.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Wahoo Guerrero (b. 1947) studied Painting at the Escuela de Bellas Artes San Jordi in Barcelona. He first ventured into photography during his stay in Spain, where he specialized in documenting the art and architecture of the country. Aside from painting and photography, Guerrero is also a movie producer and publisher. His works have been displayed at the Sining Kamalig Gallery, featuring women from Ilocos, at
the Inter-continental Hotel, featuring women and fashion and at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, featuring his paintings. In 2010, Wahoo exhibited works on the temples and ruins of Cambodia.
