Romeo’s Lonelee Planet
Romeo Lee
07 January – 05 February 2012
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07 January – 05 February 2012
Lonelee Planet is a section of the Eden of Romeo Lee’s imagination. The Project Room hosts Romeo’s new and reconstructed paintings. His new series navigates around a space where natural, familiar landscapes are superimposed with deviant terrain. Conjured through Romeo’s raw and unmediated process, nature is tactile, as if set ablaze by its own colors and very motions. There is a sense of anomaly in the scenery, treating the images as distinct parts of a narrative: feeling something impending in a seemingly uncomplicated setting (too good to be true!) witnessing the strange communions and confronted with the disintegration of the narrative’s elements. Romeo gives us a reportage of something that can be a slapstick tragedy or a grotesque renaissance.
Lonelee Planet is also inhabited by usually solitary characters, or figures that intermingle too much that they become abstracted, elastic blobs blending infinitely. These characters are horrific and humorous, and are the outcomes of the polarities between different landscapes. In saying that, these figures are the lovechild of a serene nature and an explosive one.
Romeo’s works come from his inexhaustible cesspool of mischief. His oeuvre contains a medley of comic characters caught in a tangle of ludicrous adventures that, in turn, produce an Eden of bastards. These dark permutations of a vibrant underworld is the effect of a Romeo Lee version of the Story of Creation, where Lee stirs the world as we know it around his ‘cauldron of toxic’ play and serves it back in a form of ribald stew. Themes of his works range from the scatalogical and the perverse to the platonic and the prudent.
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Romeo Lee is an artist and musician known as “the king of punk” and the “ukay-ukay king,” having gained a reputation since his student days in the University of the Philippines in the 1980s. An artist for over three decades, he has shown in both solo and group exhibitions in various spaces locally and internationally, including West Gallery, Manila Contemporary, Mag:net Gallery, NOVA Gallery, Vinyl on Vinyl, Finale Art File, Crucible Gallery, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Fries Museum in Berlin, and the Musee International des Arts Modestes in Sete, France.
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About the Artists
About the Artist
Romeo Lee is an artist and musician known as “the king of punk” and the “ukay-ukay king,” having gained a reputation since his student days in the University of the Philippines in the 1980s. An artist for over three decades, he has shown in both solo and group exhibitions in various spaces locally and internationally, including West Gallery, Manila Contemporary, Mag:net Gallery, NOVA Gallery, Vinyl on Vinyl, Finale Art File, Crucible Gallery, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Fries Museum in Berlin, and the Musee International des Arts Modestes in Sete, France.
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