Art trilogy

Artinformal, the platform of contemporary art, recently launched three exhibitions last 3 July, at their space in The Alley At Karrivin, Makati City.It featured Alvin Zafra’s Burgundy Street, a group show curated by Norman Crisologo titled Ang Butas sa Lupa ay Butas sa Langit (“The hole in the land is a hole in the sky”) and lastly, Zoraya Lua’s G-code. These are three stories converging under one contemporary space and narrating the signs of the times.

Gallery 1: Zafra’s ‘Burgundy Street’

This is the artist’s interpretation of everyday scenery through drawing brilliant layers of powdered stones on sandpaper, using black and white to delineate figure from the ground. Red, however, is the color of the infidel.

In this exhibit, he is faithful to what he imagines. Modernism, photography and Psycho-geography converge to create realities yet to be formed.

Gallery 2: Crisologo’s ‘Ang Butas sa Lupa ay Butas sa Langit’

This is a group show curated by Crisologo that is an invitation to enter and see what’s on the other side — the other side on where the viewer is at.

The works in this show are circles, spirals and dead ends. Paths that one would need to traverse to get to where you want to be. The artists include Karl Arnaiz, Rap Carloto, Marvin Dalisay, Ian Fabro, Gawen Fuji, Robert Langenegger, JC Mariategue, Jayvee Necesaria, Artu Nepomoceno, Dennis Occena, Rando Onia, Solka, Jomari T’leon, David Ryan Viray, Lourd de Veyra and Kaloy Olavides.

Gallery 3: Lua’s ‘G-code’

Referencing the programming language behind CNC machines and laser engravers, G-code examines the unintended imprints left by movement — human, mechanical or environmental.

Through photo-based prints and video, Lua isolated and abstracted the visual that emerge through habitual and automated motion. These incidental marks are reframed as evidence of an underlying force operating beyond conscious effort, encoded into the every day.