Exhibits 2022
Patay Sindi presents a social critique on the destructive impacts of war and how its incredible acts of cruelty affect everyone, most especially the children. Dela Cruz's work captures the faithless horrors of corporeality and evokes it into paintings and sculptures that present his mastery of expressing grim colors in his own, self-identified aesthetic. Upon looking into the artist's work, one is pulled into an introspective state on the mechanics of existence and how an imbalance in societal structure effortlessly bends it into the advantage of an overcompensated ruling class.
-Dave Lock
Makinarya is a masterful blend of Anthony Victoria’s prominence in aluminum etching and Rai Cruz’s oil painting on layers of cut wood. The show itself is a comical and ceremonial allegory to that of a tour in a factory to see and examine the Makinarya. Think of a manufacturing complex, a tour of the skillful creations of both artists, while simultaneously being given an avenue to imagine life, ideologies, and civility through the pieces being shown.
-Karen Tesalona
"In the World of a Fool's Imagination" by Yko Umadhay III elucidates the dangers that the digital age can inflict not only upon our cultural identity but most especially towards our state of mental being. In this exhibition, the artist presents a fictitious world inhabited by strange creatures, mostly presented as an amalgamation of surreal forms.
-Dave Lock
Because of its capacity to drive us towards the very limits of human experience, art itself has always been a catalyst for personal transformation. For Macj Turla, art is but a vehicle in which he expresses the language of his own being. Through the aide of his brush, he conjures images that represent his current state of mind and understanding of his own environment.
-Dave Lock
In Alulong, his first solo exhibition at the Eskinita Art Farm, Bautista continues to dwell deeper on the lives of dogs as a reflection of our collective destiny as a people. Loaded with distortion as a visual style, when a dog howls, it is most likely to be hungry, scared or grimacing in pain. It could also be a premonition of bad happenings to come—this is where Bautista effectively ponders on his canvases.
-Jay Bautista
Now that he is in a better privileged position to reflect deep down on his past, KUMUNOY, the 9th solo exhibition by Melvin Guirhem at the Eskinita Art Farm unravels differing episodes in his ongoing topsy-turvy existence—as it all adds up to the distinct perspective of being an effective award-winning artist.
-Jay Bautista
Carlo de Laza's works in his upcoming solo show, PARTIALLY WHOLE, purveys us with a cognitive map of navigating one's inner psyche. It shows us the abysmal impulses and struggles that pulsate deep within the labyrinths of the soul. It communicates the constructions of splintered identities and how piecing them back together prevents the disintegration of our personhood. Because these fragments, no matter how broken and unwanted, are still significant parts of what make us whole.
-Dave Lock
Inspired by the 1887 Madrid Exposition, EXPOSITION FILIPINAS serves as another chapter of Felix Mago Miguel's commentary on Philippine history and an illustration of the current “Filipino-ness” exemplified in our current socio-political situation especially after the May 2022 national elections.
-Janine Dimaranan
PUNO’T DULO'T PUNO, the two-person exhibition of Ben Albino and Rachel Anne Lacaba ushers in to thematically create a critical dialogue between them juxtaposing politics, culture and the environment while taking a hard deep pun intended while we are on the cusp of a new government wrought already by repeated lies, unsolved corruption and long ulterior plan to revise history.
-Jay Bautista
CREVICE BLOOM by Ioannis Sicuya is a series of works that draw inspiration from the internal, spiral structure of conch shells. The swirling tunnels inside the artworks are reminiscent of an irregular network of cave formations, almost looking like a complex labyrinth housed with stalagmites and limestone. … The artist parallels human activity with the behavior of living organisms that have a stronger affinity with nature where they both attempt to reshape the space around them. This is all done without realizing that this bid for progress could also result into harmful, environmental repercussions.
-Dave Lock
Splinters, despite their potentially harmful nature to our bodies are usually something that we don't notice until we are presented with visible effects like tetanus contractions or more pronounced signs of an infection. Because they are small and are usually made of organic matter, these slivers slowly bury themselves deep into our bodies unnoticed. Much like the great Trojan horse that silently penetrated the great walls of Troy, the fragment lodges itself deep beneath the tissue and unleashes an army of bacteria once its inside.
-Dave Lock
Mapaang is two man show by Noel Elicana and Michael Delmo the explores the state of Mapaang, which is a Hiligaynon word that typically means hot and humid. This condition or temperament was well and thoroughly executed in the artworks of the two artists masked with various symbolisms pertaining to the circumstance’s metaphorical implication to the real world. Mapaang is the climax of summer heat, a plight just before the comes. This change often puts forth an uneasy state of humidity and followed by a general unrest amongst the populace.
-Karen Tesalona
The Tagalog phrase “Tawag ng Liwanag” holds a complementary twofold significance when words are given power as to how the phrase is read, giving emphasis to meaning and action. One, where the focus is on TAWAG as in a calling from the Light; and two, where the focus is on NG LIWANAG from where the very Light is called upon or summoned. This group show is inspired, and thus an expression, of both.
-Janine Dimaranan
The young have always concerned themselves to be veering on the radical and contemporary. Comprised of large-scale artworks, sculptures and installations, Eskinita Art Farm presents a selection of its four-year Tuklas mentees for this year’s edition of Art Fair Philippines. Expressing their self-taught metaphors reflecting their experimental yet distinct, confident yet sensitive brushstrokes and sculpting concepts.
-Jay Bautista
The raw intricacy of Epjey Pacheco’s handwork fills the canvas with beastly creatures amassing space, time, and direction in his show, Beast of Burden. They fill the void with eloquence that can transform into an emptiness that elucidates the artist’s intention and speaks volumes to its audiences.
Sa Panahong Walang Hinahon Ang Mga Poon, tatlong-personang eksibisyon nina Grace Corpuz, Odoi Villalon at Vladimir Grutas sa Eskinita Art Farm, pinapatunayan nito ang patuloy nilang malikhaing pagtatanggol sa paulit-ulit na pangaapi at pangaalipusta sa mga nakararami sa lipunan. Itinatampok ng kanilang pinagsanib na pwersa ang kolektibong panata na taas kamaong paglilingkod sa masa ng bayan.
Bend But Never Break
In Bend But Never Break, Arvi Fetalvero’s fourth solo exhibition, she expands on her introspection of the personal/ self as it relates and reacts to the external environment as well as internal interplay of the body, mind and soul.