The return of the sons of Philippine social realism
If you live in a country like this, how can you not make art like this?” Contemporary Filipino artist Jose Tence Ruiz asks this rhetorical question in Amadís Ma. Guerrero’s
If you live in a country like this, how can you not make art like this?” Contemporary Filipino artist Jose Tence Ruiz asks this rhetorical question in Amadís Ma. Guerrero’s
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Creating Sustainable Practices in Artistic and Cultural Endeavors Inc. will formally open “Against the Current: Contemporary Social Realist Art in the Philippines” on Aug. 31, 7 p.m., at vMeme Contemporary Art Gallery (61 Visayas Avenue, Quezon City). Exhibit will run until Sept. 28.
In “Desiccated Proxy” (on view at the Galleria Duemilla until Feb. 29), Jose Tence Ruiz continues to explore the paradoxes, contradictions and the absurdities of human existence, as he portrays various social ills alongside existential queries mostly with the use of Catholic symbols, in his attempt to make some sense of the complexities his finds in life.
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