KONSENSUS: Opening on Sept.13 2008

What do you call the sporadic meetings of two diverse groups of artists hailing from the metropolis and the outskirt rural town of Angono? The topographical settings aren’t such a hinder to their common vision to merge into creating a concept based on salinity of seawater and embracing the statistics of population. Each of them collectively convey symbols or expresses meaning, sometimes multiple meanings as they are brought together as torch bearer of the ritual unbeknownst, palimpsests of coding and the pluralism of everyday life. The concept was derived outside the political issues and corporate ideals thus, Konsensus was conceived.

Lunduyan Art Gallery will represent eleven young artists namely: Josef Laureano, Fitz Herrera, Maxbal, Katrina Tan, Vic Dabao, Ral Arrogante, Dicky Joe Santos, Aaron Bautista, Carlos Francisco II, Allan Alcantara and Jonjon Santos. Most of them delved on abstractionism and the sole woman in the group was into figurative style.

These are the incarceration of two opposing centers of the urbane and the regional. Although these painters did not confine to the distinct and localized colors, patterns of culture including the autonomous references of modernism. Most of their works harbor on the nonobjective entity which defies the trendy auction based art market and spur-of-the-moment ideal and consumerists’ kind of paintings. A witty denunciation of three-dimensional in their works is a sort of liberation. Most of their works was conspicuously done in mixed media and oil on canvas with standard size.

These up and coming artists do not prioritize commodity exchanges and promises to keep the viewers visually assimilated with their artistic licenses that they esoterically called “Konsensus”.

“Konsensus” opens on September 13, 2008 with cocktails at 6:00 in the evening. The exhibit will run until October 1, 2008.

Lunduyan Art Gallery is located at 88 B Kamuning Road, Quezon City.
For inquiries please call 0915-7896417 and look for Dicky Joe Santos.