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In ‘Un|Tethered,’ an exhibition by Galeria Paloma for Art Fair Philippines 2024, acclaimed visual artists and musicians challenge their creative trajectories–and emerge triumphant–by exploring different art forms as they express themselves creatively with new mediums, forms, and collaborations.

The exhibition is set to take place at Galeria Paloma’s booth at the art fair from February 16 to 18, inviting art enthusiasts to embark on a journey of exploration and discovery.

‘In the twenty years we’ve worked closely with artists, we’ve realized that true artists are not confined to a single medium or category, and are willing to embrace change and challenge themselves,’ says gallery co-director Kimberly Rocha-Delgado. ‘This occurs in many ways, but, specifically for “Un|Tethered”, well-known artists, revered in their respective fields such as painting, sculpture, and music, venture into the digital realm for the first time, with a keen ability to innovate and adapt. By transcending the traditional boundaries of their craft, these artists exemplify the dynamic and evolving nature of creative expression.’

BASTI ARTADI

Artadi may be most known for his contributions to Philippine rock as the multi-award winning vocalist of Wolfgang, but his artistic journey has taken him beyond the lyric sheet and onto the canvas, powerfully using compelling visual language with complex storytelling and metaphorical imagery with the same authenticity and fearlessness he has exemplified as a musician.

His three-piece collection (one of which includes an augmented reality layer by Artadi, with original music by Artadi) for ‘Un|Tethered’ was borne from a controversy about a talent competition awarding its first prize to a contestant who passed off the Eraserheads’ work as his own. ‘It got me thinking about the ways we consume our music, how we see our musical heroes, and, to an extent, how we consume art in general,’ Artadi says.

The works are raw and honest, and his unexpectedly vivid colors belie cutting truths.

INSPIRE

2022

48in x 48in

Mixed media on canvas

Php 140,000

CARLOS

Carlos (b. 1950) began his art career with sculpture, at first displaying and selling them at his wife's gallery, Galeria Mia, in Pasay Road in the 1980s. In the late 1990s, Carlos began painting, with his canvases characterized by the celebration of life in their joyous combination of pleasurable subjects and intensified color, and by his energized view of the world and its natural beauty.

Commissioned by various corporations, his works grace several offices and hotels such as a whole floor at the Raffles Hotel & Residences (Manila) and Crimson Hotel (Manila). Carlos has mounted several solo exhibits at the Ayala Museum ArtistSpace and the Rockwell Center, and participated in exhibitions in San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Brisbane.

In February 2022, he launched his genesis collection of NFTs. Digital, animated versions of @artbycarlosph's acrylic on canvas paintings, rendered by Isaiah Cacnio, have given Carlos a unique trajectory in the artist's career, allowing for a more immersive experience and the fulfillment of Carlos' vision to have viewers 'step into his world.' Over 200 layers were created to achieve the animation of Carlos' paintings, masterfully rendered by Cacnio, a digital artist in his own right, and whose work, ‘Prismatic Embrace,’ will be projected onto the Ayala Triangle Gardens for the duration of the fair.

BLOOMS & OLD BALCONIES

2022

35in x 35in

Mixed media on canvas

Php 96,000

THE VIOLINIST

2023

49in x 14in x 14in

Mixed Media Sculpture

Php 170,000

Includes wooden pedestal and glass base.

EL TORERO

2023

59in x 18in x 18in

Mixed Media Sculpture

Php 170,000

Includes wooden pedestal and glass base.

ISAIAH CACNIO

Coming from an engineering background and a passion for creativity stemming from childhood, Cacnio honed his talent as a motion graphics artist and animator leading projects and teams of sold-out events such as the Van Gogh Alive exhibit in BGC. Since then, he has worked behind-the-scenes in many different projects here and abroad requiring his highly mechanical and creative skills.

He is an esteemed crypto artist in his own right: his work, ‘Prismatic Embrace,’ will be projected onto the Ayala Triangle Gardens from 8 February and for the duration of the fair.

CHECKMATE!

2022

43s digital animated video

Php 200,000

Includes 43in Samsung The Frame TV

CARLOS x ISAIAH CACNIO

THE PAINTERS

2022

43s digital animated video

Php 200,000

Includes 43in Samsung The Frame TV

IN THAT SMALL CAFE

2022

37s digital animated video

Php 200,000

Includes 43in Samsung The Frame TV

TO TOUCH FOREVER

2022

87s digital animated video

Php 200,000

Includes 43in Samsung The Frame TV

OF HEARTS AND BLOOMS

2022

60ss digital animated video

Php 200,000

Includes 43in Samsung The Frame TV

THE CLEARING BY THE VILLAGE BRIDGE

2022

97s digital animated video

Php 200,000

Includes 43in Samsung The Frame TV

ERNEST CONCEPCION

A CCP Thirteen Artists Awardee, Concepcion is known for his heavily layered works and postmodernist themes, bringing about unexpected synapses and altering perception irrevocably with the use of disparate images from still life, warfare, mythology, and nature. ‘Mucky Muck,’ his central work for ‘Un|Tethered’, with a digital component created by art director and graphic designer AJ Dimarucot, sparks with galvanic energy, much like the rest of the works by Concepcion that will be available at the fair.

Concepcion has held solo exhibitions here and abroad, as well as attended fellowships and residencies (he has recently completed a residency in Spain with Nectar Creatives-in-Residence). He has also been a finalist for the Drawing Category of the New York Foundation for the Arts and a nominee at the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New York; he divides his time between Manila and Brooklyn as a full-time artist.

MAKE LOVE UNDER A RAINBOW

2016

24in x 36in

Mixed media on canvas

Php 121,000

IMAGINE SOMETHING FOR ME

2016

48in x 36in

Mixed media on canvas

Php 181,000

MAMA SPALOOZA

2016

24in x 36in

Mixed media on canvas

Php 121,000

FORWARD. BACKWARD. EVER. NEVER.

2016

36in x 36in

Mixed media on canvas

Php 162,000

GUN

2012

30in x 30in

Oil on canvas

Php 88,200

PEACE

2013

32in x 30in

Oil on canvas

Php 94,500

SENORITA

2012

30in x 30in

Oil on canvas

Php 88,200

STILL LIFE

2013

20in x 24in

Oil on canvas

Php 46,900

THE LAMB OF GODS

2011

28in x 36in

Acrylic on canvas

Php 85,000

BEAST MENTALITY

2020

36in x 24in

Mixed media on canvas

Php 121,000

COPS VS COPS PLUS DONUTS

2021

12in x 15in

Ink and pencil on paper

Php 25,000

SARAH DE VEYRA-BUYCO x HAMILL BUYCO

A holographic installation at the exhibition will be on display, executed by Sarah De Veyra-Buyco and husband and artist Hamill Buyco collaboratively, combining their artistic signatures in their work for ‘Un|Tethered’ via a holographic piece. Derived from De Veyra-Buyco’s graphite work “Nebula 3” and executed as a holographic piece by Buyco, it explores the relationship between the finite and the infinite, and the duality between the fathomable and the mystery of the unknown as symbolized by the cosmos.

Sarah de Veyra-Buyco is a visual artist, illustrator, graphic designer, and art educator, whose intricate graphite drawings have been presented in various exhibitions by galleries in Metro Manila. She graduated cum laude with a studio arts degree at the University of the Philippines Diliman College of Fine Arts and was the recipient of the Best Thesis Award for her multidisciplinary installation titled "From the Outside In." She attended the College of Intensive Chinese Studies of Beijing and Language Culture University, PRC.

Hamill Buyco received his MA in 3D Animation with merit from the Buckinghamshire New University in the UK. He graduated with honors from the Illinois Institute of Art-Schaumburg with a BFA in Media Arts and Animation and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He worked freelance for Gorgaonaut Studios, Philadelphia and Snipple Animation Studios in the Philippines, and conducted animation workshops for the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

Sarah de Veyra-Buyco

Nebula 3

Digitally manipulated photograph

with

18in x24in

Graphite on canvas

Hamill Buyco

30s video (hologram)

1020x1020

Hardware:

Acrylic glass (17in x16in x16 in)

Pedestal (18in x18in x 44in)

Php 75,000

Includes:

Digital Artwork (Hologram)

Hologram Hardware

Php 110,000

Includes:

Graphite on Canvas Artwork

Digital Artwork (Hologram)

Hologram Hardware

CARLA GAMALINDA

Carla Gamalinda’s collection for the exhibitions is from her series, ‘Soft Places’, dreamlike, surrealist images of rest with indications of interruption, and each layered with animation through an augmented reality layer. Gamalinda considers these works as an entry point to investigating the Philippine labor scene, by making visible the aspirations of the working class: freedom, rest, and “wasting” of time.

As her practice spans multiple disciplines—she is an artist, cultural heritage worker, a writer, and an art teacher at the Ateneo de Manila University— her works are often an application of her cultural research, integrating heritage elements into contemporary settings. She holds a BFA in Advertising Arts and a Master of Arts degree in Cultural Heritage Studies.

SOFT PLACES I

2024

18in x 18in

Oil on canvas

with digital augmented reality layer via Artivive

Php 25,000

SOFT PLACES II

2024

24in x 24in

Oil on canvas

with digital augmented reality layer via Artivive

Php 30,000

SOFT PLACES III

2024

24in x 24in

Oil on canvas

with digital augmented reality layer via Artivive

Php 30,000

MARTIN HONASAN x BARBIE ALMALBIS

For ‘Un|Tethered’, three paintings by Honasan offer up his signature, layered, mixed media portraits. Together with wife and multi-awarded musician Barbie Almalbis, they created animated augmented reality layers–featuring Almalbis’ original music–that begin with Honasan’s line sketches and progress to his line portraits that slowly fade as the underlying painting asserts itself. The digital superimposition on the painting underlines promise, progress, and, finally, being–linking to the collection of the three works’ title, ‘Rehoboth’, which refers to a Biblically historic well and, more meaningfully, the fulfillment of provision, space, and peace.

Martin Honasan (b.1976, Quezon City, Philippines) is a graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies. He worked as visual artist and art director in advertising (1999-2001), then as managing partner in his own design firm (2001-2004) prior to pursuing the visual arts full-time. Honasan is a Filipino mixed media artist working mostly with acrylic paint and shaped fabrics on canvas. He has done individual and group exhibitions in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, U.S.A., and France in local and international art conventions such as Art Fair Philippines, Art in the Park, Art Taipei, Bazaar Art Jakarta, Manila Art, VOLTA New York, and Asia Now Paris Art Fair. Honasan has had solo shows at cultural institutions in Manila, Philippines: the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Ayala Museum ArtistSpace.

Barbie Almalbis-Honasan is an awarded singer-songwriter who began her musical career with her bands Hungry Young Poets and Barbie’s Cradle, creating hits that have earned their place in Philippine music history. Her musical talent holds an impressive range from alternative rock to acoustic to folk as a vocalist and songwriter and has enjoyed a loyal fan base that has continued to grow in her over twenty-year music career.

REHOBOTH 2

2023

16in x 12in

Mixed media on canvas

With augmented reality layer via Artivive app

Original music by Barbie Almalbis

Php 75,000

CARINA SANTOS

While Carina Santos deeply delves in both works on canvas as well as in the digital, she brings these two genres together in her offering for ‘Un|Tethered’, adding an interactive exercise, coded by the artist herself, where one can engage with the artwork by layering a collage over the image, composed of a string of text.

Santos, an artist, writer, and designer based between the UK and Philippines and whose work has been exhibited in Singapore, Hong Kong, and London, completed her MRes in Art: Theory & Philosophy at Central Saint Martins in 2019. She is the daughter of esteemed artists Soler and Mona Santos and granddaughter of Mauro Malang Santos.