What: Pinoy Mixed Media Artist
When: November 19, 2011
Where: Dubai
I can't wait to feature this one on my blog. This UFO is among the best of the best. He is featured also in "Time Out Dubai" Magazine. You can see his feature on this link.
Our UFO sighting today is about Darwin Guevarra. He has conducted the first ever art solo show in Dubai by a Filipino Artist at Tashkeel Gallery, Nad Al Sheba. He has an eye for beauty, even for worthless junk, which he turns into unique pieces of art. He is another sort of "Manny Pacquiao" that has risen from nobody to where he is now. He is also the first Filipino artist to bring home the grand prize for fine arts in the Dubai Ladies Club Shaikha Manal New Signatures Young Artist Award. Once he has said:
‘How many times have I applied to a gallery, showed them my portfolio, only to be told that they are afraid [the works won’t sell] and that there is no place in the gallery for it. There’s no money for my artwork, they say.’
But now look at where he is now. "Guevarra's work has developed significantly. From a collection of murky paintings of the body (adorned with zips, pipes and lead-like pallor), his ideas have strengthened and took focus. Large scale canvas-cum-installation now dominate the Tashkeel space. Found objects are interspersed with painted sections giving a chaotic, mechanism appearance. They are like decaying engines that are giving out their final guttural outbursts. The compositions are packed with detail to the point of confusion and, characteristic of the ideas that Guevarra engages with, mingle human and machine"
That was a perfect description of his works by the "Time Out Dubai" magazine.
Let's take a look at some of his masterpieces.
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