MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Art Gallery MONO8 has opened CCxLL, a two-person exhibition featuring the works of artists Clarence Chun and Luis Lorenzana, in conversation for the first time.
CCxLL opened on October 16 and will run until November 24 at MONO8 Gallery located BLK 113, 53 Connecticut Street, Greenhills, San Juan City.
In Clarence’s paintings, the artist is interested in pushing the boundaries of technique by visualizing speed and time. His multi-stage process of washing, masking, and detailing his canvases manifest in sweeping bands of colour that suggest momentum and direction. Chun’s abstractions articulate memories from his life, pop culture references, and broader art histories of modernism.
Within Luis’ work, there is a similar preoccupation with challenging painting’s traditions. The Heads series particularly plays upon portraiture’s art historical tradition. Here, Luis’ builds upon the genre’s mimetic convention, stripping down, warping, and rebuilding the sitter until they are totally abstracted.
The two painters will also unveil their very first collaborative series in which their respective approaches to the same painterly queries – composition, form, technique, color – coalesce on shared canvases.
Clarence and Luis’ joint works, in turn, riff on one another’s exploratory strategies. The resulting compositions push the potential of painting as a medium and coalesce in works that are simultaneously elegant, intricate, and rife with meaning.
