Bomba
Kawayan de Guia
11 December 2010 – 09 January 2011
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11 December 2010 – 09 January 2011
MO_Space’s Project Room contains Kawayan de Guia’s “Bomba” series, an installation of mirror balls of earlier disco days fashioned into bombs. An extension of the artist’s earlier project for the Vargas Museum at the University of the Philippines Diliman, the forms are loaded with references to literal and symbolic violence—to warfare, pornography, and assault—that imbue the project space with a fascinating, impending menace.
About the Artist
About the Artists
Kawayan de Guia (b. 1979), son of the well-known local filmmaker and National Artist for Cinema Kidlat Tahimik (Eric de Guia) and German stained-glass artist Katrin de Guia, is a painter, installation and performance artist based in Baguio City, Philippines. He finished his bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines (UP). In 2011, de Guia initiated AX(iS) Art Projects—a biennial gathering of artists from different fields working on the idea of transience, site-specific and community-based works. He is a recipient of the Ateneo Art Awards (2008), the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award (2009), and the First New York Arts Project Residency Grant (2008). He has had solo exhibitions in the Philippines, Australia, Japan, China, and Germany, in spaces such as the Vargas Musuem at UP, the Soka Art Center in Beijing, ARNDT Singapore, Rossi & Rossi Ltd. in London, The Luggage Store in San Francisco, California, The Drawing Room, Singapore Art Museum, the Lopez Memorial Museum, Ateneo Art Gallery, Artinformal, and MCAD Manila. He was also one of the curators for the Singapore Biennale in 2013. De Guia has participated at the Art Fair Philippines and the recent Manila Biennale.
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About the Artists
About the Artist
Kawayan de Guia (b. 1979), son of the well-known local filmmaker and National Artist for Cinema Kidlat Tahimik (Eric de Guia) and German stained-glass artist Katrin de Guia, is a painter, installation and performance artist based in Baguio City, Philippines. He finished his bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines (UP). In 2011, de Guia initiated AX(iS) Art Projects—a biennial gathering of artists from different fields working on the idea of transience, site-specific and community-based works. He is a recipient of the Ateneo Art Awards (2008), the Cultural Center of the Philippines Thirteen Artists Award (2009), and the First New York Arts Project Residency Grant (2008). He has had solo exhibitions in the Philippines, Australia, Japan, China, and Germany, in spaces such as the Vargas Musuem at UP, the Soka Art Center in Beijing, ARNDT Singapore, Rossi & Rossi Ltd. in London, The Luggage Store in San Francisco, California, The Drawing Room, Singapore Art Museum, the Lopez Memorial Museum, Ateneo Art Gallery, Artinformal, and MCAD Manila. He was also one of the curators for the Singapore Biennale in 2013. De Guia has participated at the Art Fair Philippines and the recent Manila Biennale.
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