Of Making Your Marks
Of Making Your Marks
December 4, 2002
When one travels a road not taken before one could fairly approximate the sense of feet scouring the ground. We usually walk to get to a point of destination and if one happens to have the time and the effort to spend it could be quite enjoyable but the pain still.
On this first week of December 2002, I happen to find myself on foot to Green Papaya Art Projects to see the exhibit of large paintings and 50 drawings of Louie Cordero, titled ‘Torts and Damages.’ A frequent visitor before, I had now seldom the opportunity to come this far away, yet, I was curious how would one of the most dynamic young artists of SBW to date, would present his latest one-man show.
I should have guessed that Roberto Chabet would have a hand in this former UP student exhibit albeit a small one. I was fascinated by how he would design the works with the numerous crannies that space has. I wouldn’t push past the inconvenience and was surprised that Chabet had a hard time. Talk about a challenge. Cordero’s new body of works isn’t the typical conceptual works as they are more illustrative, Pop and kitsch. The two sets were to work separately at another venue but it had to make do with a singular by chance space of Green Papaya. On a scale, the set up was good without the flair.
On Cordero’s works, one finds his small sketches in a comparison between editorial drawings of contemporary magazines. I like them for what they are. They were reminiscent of his occupation yet his bigger canvasses exude the cleverness and guile of an artist’s sick mind. But instead of working on an almost dramatic landscape as his earlier works like ‘Attack of the Killer Pancit Canton!!!’ he simplifies his palette for a more contrived set in choosing singular protagonists for his landscaped creations. Ahhh! To be this radical at a young age makes you want to search for your favorite Dr. Seuss book and remember childhood pranks in earlier years. The painting ‘Century to Build and Seconds to Fall’ done in oil and enamel is quite admirable as you could see a point for good research before doing a painting.
The different characters never quite blended together, though, as they tended to be illogical with each other. Individually pieces could stand alone but together, ‘Torts and Damages’ hints more about the distractions and mundane tediousness of living life than it should offer as an intended escape. Overall, it was not just another Weng-Weng story left in the dust as the novelty wears off.
Amiel Gerald A. Roldan
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
amiel_roldan@yahoo.com
amiel.roldan@gmail.com
*** visit me also at
December 4, 2002
When one travels a road not taken before one could fairly approximate the sense of feet scouring the ground. We usually walk to get to a point of destination and if one happens to have the time and the effort to spend it could be quite enjoyable but the pain still.
On this first week of December 2002, I happen to find myself on foot to Green Papaya Art Projects to see the exhibit of large paintings and 50 drawings of Louie Cordero, titled ‘Torts and Damages.’ A frequent visitor before, I had now seldom the opportunity to come this far away, yet, I was curious how would one of the most dynamic young artists of SBW to date, would present his latest one-man show.
I should have guessed that Roberto Chabet would have a hand in this former UP student exhibit albeit a small one. I was fascinated by how he would design the works with the numerous crannies that space has. I wouldn’t push past the inconvenience and was surprised that Chabet had a hard time. Talk about a challenge. Cordero’s new body of works isn’t the typical conceptual works as they are more illustrative, Pop and kitsch. The two sets were to work separately at another venue but it had to make do with a singular by chance space of Green Papaya. On a scale, the set up was good without the flair.
On Cordero’s works, one finds his small sketches in a comparison between editorial drawings of contemporary magazines. I like them for what they are. They were reminiscent of his occupation yet his bigger canvasses exude the cleverness and guile of an artist’s sick mind. But instead of working on an almost dramatic landscape as his earlier works like ‘Attack of the Killer Pancit Canton!!!’ he simplifies his palette for a more contrived set in choosing singular protagonists for his landscaped creations. Ahhh! To be this radical at a young age makes you want to search for your favorite Dr. Seuss book and remember childhood pranks in earlier years. The painting ‘Century to Build and Seconds to Fall’ done in oil and enamel is quite admirable as you could see a point for good research before doing a painting.
The different characters never quite blended together, though, as they tended to be illogical with each other. Individually pieces could stand alone but together, ‘Torts and Damages’ hints more about the distractions and mundane tediousness of living life than it should offer as an intended escape. Overall, it was not just another Weng-Weng story left in the dust as the novelty wears off.
Amiel Gerald A. Roldan
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
amiel_roldan@yahoo.com
amiel.roldan@gmail.com
*** visit me also at
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