Bat Soup Painters

Mariano Ching x Louie Cordero

MO_Space | Main Gallery

05 – 31 December 2020

“Collaboration in painting has always remained one of the form’s more elusive enterprises. Seldom do we see successful attempts in the merging of two distinctive styles which makes us sometimes susceptible to dismiss them as elaborate acts. Indeed, the idea of collaboration is riddled with challenging considerations that affect the project’s outcome, and the current situation has made it even more difficult to imagine the kind of cooperation it demands amid social distancing. Albeit these conditions, we have seen how most collaborative projects flourished during this crisis and thrived through novel approaches, especially in online and electronic platforms, proving that, more than ever, synergic responses are extremely beneficial to communities during times of uncertainty.

In painting, everything becomes even more challenging. But it can also be said that in the heart of all artistic collaborations, whether small or large-scale, is the initial exchange between two respondents: the primal dialogue—the potential space for mutuality that make the enterprise attainable.

Such mutuality has made the collaborative exhibition of Mariano Ching and Louie Cordero possible. Venturing into their second collaboration of works for an exhibition, their approach is the kind which is built, quite literally, from the toll of exchanges.”

–CL

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