GEOPOEMAS: BACOLOD
Kristoffer Ardeña
11 January – 04 February 2020
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11 January – 04 February 2020
For MO_Space, Ardeña presents the painting entitled “Ghost Painting / Cracked Category: Bacolod,” where the artist tackles the tradition of the landscape genre. Almost two hundred pieces of cutout tarpaulin that were printed with Google street maps of Bacolod (Negros island, Philippines), where the artist is currently based, were painted and hanged from the ceiling of the gallery space using deconstructed basahan retaso rugs. This immersive and performative painting invites the public to then crack and reveal texts, images, iconography, and names of streets.
Ardeña paints on tarpaulin, one of the most commonly used and recognizable materials in both the urban and rural areas all over the Philippines. Instead of using it to announce events, products, and services in the public space, he inverts the role of the material to create the landscape itself.
About the Artist
About the Artists
Kristoffer Ardeña (b. 1976, Philippines) works with various formats ranging from readymades, photography, installation, sculpture, video, painting, performance and other projects.
He is the recipient of various awards and scholarships: a full undergraduate scholarship at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, California (USA), scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Culture from Luxembourg, the Academy in Rome award and the Cajamadrid Generaciones in Spain.
He has done projects at: Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico, Selesar Sunaryo Art Space, Ruang Mes56 and Cemeti Art House (Indonesia), Vargas Museum and the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila (Philippines),Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Museum (Madrid), La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (Murcia), Spain.
He has also participated in various collective projects, among them the 3rd Bucharest Biennale (Romania), 3rd Guangzhou Triennale (China), Konstholl C in Stockholm (Sweden), Caixa Forum in Barcelona and La Casa Encendida in Madrid, MUSAC in León (Spain), Casino Forum d’Art Con-temporain (Luxembourg), Apexart in New York (USA), Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellin (Colombia).
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About the Artists
About the Artist
Kristoffer Ardeña (b. 1976, Philippines) works with various formats ranging from readymades, photography, installation, sculpture, video, painting, performance and other projects.
He is the recipient of various awards and scholarships: a full undergraduate scholarship at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, California (USA), scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Culture from Luxembourg, the Academy in Rome award and the Cajamadrid Generaciones in Spain.
He has done projects at: Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico, Selesar Sunaryo Art Space, Ruang Mes56 and Cemeti Art House (Indonesia), Vargas Museum and the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila (Philippines),Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Museum (Madrid), La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (Murcia), Spain.
He has also participated in various collective projects, among them the 3rd Bucharest Biennale (Romania), 3rd Guangzhou Triennale (China), Konstholl C in Stockholm (Sweden), Caixa Forum in Barcelona and La Casa Encendida in Madrid, MUSAC in León (Spain), Casino Forum d’Art Con-temporain (Luxembourg), Apexart in New York (USA), Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellin (Colombia).
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