Contemporary Filipino Artist

Question 1

Auction sensation

His paintings and sculptures feature a complex layering of image and styles, symbolic of the multifaceted national identity of the Philippines

Answer 1

Ronald Ventura

Question 2

Their work speaks of community,personal experience,memory displacement and emotional, psychological effects of migration

Floor-to-ceiling installation of miniature car board

Answer 2

Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan

Question 3

Manila - Japan

Works deal with familiar objects, chance encounters, and everyday politics, using media such as drawings, installations, photography, video, etc.

Answer 3

Mark Salvastus

Question 4

Works are heavily influenced by the urban landscape, internet, advertising, and popular culture

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Mark Salvastus

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Interested in the consequences of transforming the physicality of an object and how the connotations attached to the originals are affected by the transformation

Explores how an object can still retain its “wholeness or thingness”

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Gary-Ross Patrana

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Works often reflects the history of drone metal, black metal and everything rock n’ roll

“Deviant”

Destroyed room, Pedro Ubaldo Ain’t Holy Anymore

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Constantino Zicarreli

Question 7

Weaves contemporary reality with folk narratives in a vibratant tableaux that draw inspiration from his research into folktales and pre-colonial history

Mountain of fantasy, Cane of Kaburian

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Rodel Tapaya

Question 8

Created over 4,500 artworks

Vibrantly colorful, mixed media painted textile collages, abstract, assemblages and traumpo paintings

Answer 8

Pacita Abad