Strange Thirst
Lani Maestro
21 July – 16 September 2018
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21 July – 16 September 2018
Strange Thirst is a new installation by Lani Maestro. The work’s idea began as a conversation with artist, Roberto Chabet’s no title (umbrellas) in the adjacent space. Maestro recalls her introduction to Japanese haiku during her early studies with him in art school. Without much elaboration, this started Maestro’s fascination with light verse, the relationship with word and image or the possibilities for words to become “things” themselves.
Strange Thirst consists of hundreds of pages painted in the manner of drawing or writing which the artist has engaged in as a meditative gesture. The many slow hours of marking becomes a process of simultaneous remembering and forgetting where each mark becomes concrete, present, and anonymous.
Lani Maestro began her art practice in the Philippines in the seventies. This evolving engagement continued in Canada with art exhibitions, teaching, writing, and collaborative art projects such as publishing artists’ books, editing / designing HARBOUR, a journal of artworks and writings by artists and theorists, and running galerie burning, an itinerant gallery space in Montréal, Canada.
Her works have been exhibited internationally including the 57th Venice Biennale in Italy in 2017. She is an artist laureate of the prestigious NSCAD University’s honorary doctorate in Fine Arts (honoris causa) in Halifax, Canada, 2018.
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- Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018
- Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018 - Strange Thirst
Stapled unbleached paper, sixty-four pages, black ink, brush, wood frame with glass
15.38" x 11.38" (frame); 13.8" x 9.8" (paper)
2018
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About the Artist
About the Artists
Lani Maestro (b. 1957) is a Filipino artist based in Manila, Canada and France. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines, and then pursued art studies at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada. She received her Masters of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax where she taught. Maestro was also an instructor at Concordia University in Montreal. She was co-founder and designer of HARBOUR Magazine of Art and Everyday Life from 1990–1994. Maestro is an artist laureate of the prestigious NSCAD University’s honorary doctorate in Fine Arts (honoris causa) in Halifax, Canada, 2018. She is also a recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards for outstanding achievement (2012), and the Canada Council residency at THE SPACE, London (2008). She participated in the Beppu Project (2013), the Sharjah Biennal (2009), Busan Biennale (2004), the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane (1999), and the 11th International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1998), and the Segunda Bienal dela Habana in Cuba, where she received the Bienal Prize (1986). She has also had solo exhibitions at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), MCAD Manila, the Vargas Musuem at UP, and two commissioned site-specific works in Lorraine and l’Ardeche in France (2013). In 2017, she was one of the Philippine representatives at the 45th Venice Biennale with Manuel Ocampo. In the same year, she had a solo exhibit at MO_Space entitled “her rain”(slaughter) wherein she also showed her video art last 2011 from her show at Plug In ICA in Winnipeg and Centre A in Vancouver.
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About the Artists
About the Artist
Lani Maestro (b. 1957) is a Filipino artist based in Manila, Canada and France. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines, and then pursued art studies at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada. She received her Masters of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax where she taught. Maestro was also an instructor at Concordia University in Montreal. She was co-founder and designer of HARBOUR Magazine of Art and Everyday Life from 1990–1994. Maestro is an artist laureate of the prestigious NSCAD University’s honorary doctorate in Fine Arts (honoris causa) in Halifax, Canada, 2018. She is also a recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Awards for outstanding achievement (2012), and the Canada Council residency at THE SPACE, London (2008). She participated in the Beppu Project (2013), the Sharjah Biennal (2009), Busan Biennale (2004), the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane (1999), and the 11th International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1998), and the Segunda Bienal dela Habana in Cuba, where she received the Bienal Prize (1986). She has also had solo exhibitions at the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), MCAD Manila, the Vargas Musuem at UP, and two commissioned site-specific works in Lorraine and l’Ardeche in France (2013). In 2017, she was one of the Philippine representatives at the 45th Venice Biennale with Manuel Ocampo. In the same year, she had a solo exhibit at MO_Space entitled “her rain”(slaughter) wherein she also showed her video art last 2011 from her show at Plug In ICA in Winnipeg and Centre A in Vancouver.
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