"12 Below" by Tom Epperson
NOVA Gallery Manila
What if suddenly an Ice Age happened within the year, what materials will the survivors find frozen in ice?
This is one of the wonders hovering around artist/photographer Tom Epperson’s mind while conceptualizing his set of works “12 Below”. The exhibition title pertains to the temperature of the industrial freezer in which the artist keeps different objects frozen. Epperson captures the Filipino culture by freezing items belonging to a Filipino family. His works evoking the fragile, temporary yet dynamic characteristic of ice signifies the development and growth of the Filipino society and the conflicts that goes with it. The works provoke a discourse on foreign influences and problems of identity through cracks and fissures upon and within the frozen objects.
"12 Below" is a re-staging of Tom Epperson's 2009 art project at the Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York under the same exhibition title. This is the first time the works will be presented to the Filipino public.
Opening cocktails starts at six o'clock in the evening on September 16. The exhibition will run until 7 October 2011 at NOVA Gallery, Warehouse 12A, La Fuerza Compound, 2241 Don Chino Roces Ave., Makati City.
For more information call 392-7797 or send an electronic mail to gallerynova@gmail.com or visit www.novagallerymanila.com
