R MUCK

Manila Contemporary is proud to present the gallery's first ever solo exhibition by a local artist.

Reg Yuson has consistently held group and solo exhibitions since 1991, moving on to creating functional art and commissioned public art projects and built environments here and abroad. His new works for Manila Contemporary carries on his roots on defining spaces and, in turn, disorienting pre-conditions of our experiences of familiar places.

For this exhibition titled R Muck, Yuson takes on the challenge of taking on Manila Contemporary's cavernous space - the very characteristic which he observed has continued to daunt many artists and guests alike through the two years the gallery has been in operation along the Pasong Tamo showroom strip. Instead of pursuing the obvious direction towards filling up the empty gallery space, he chooses to work around magnifying the intimidation towards experiencing the immensity of the hall by emptying the gallery of its wall partitions then containing the entire open space onto the reflections you'll see of the entire surroundings on the high polished surface of his new sculptures which he refers to as formless muck or blobs.

R Muck plays with the experience of our relation to the space of Manila Contemporary by adding vague softscape forms to it. The form of his muck-like sculptures contains an element of illusive protrusion that can look as if they're dropping into the ground or coming out from it. They're like inverted black holes... Whereas the black hole absorbs, the blobs seems to throw everything back out... They are highly reflective encouraging a self-conscious engagement towards the space in relation to the sculptures installed on the floor. Like the R Mutt signature on Marcel Duchamp's “Fountain,” R Muck is Reg Yuson's sort of Dadaist take on contemporary imagery and iconography that we commonly see today.

Manila Contemporary is located in 2314 Whitespace Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City. For inquiries email info@manilacontemporary.com, call +63 2 8447328 or visit www.manilacontemporary.com.