Lyle Buencamino
A Bowtie For John Lyle
4 – 31 July 2006
Mag:net Gallery ABS

Opening at the Mag:net ABS this July is Lyle Buencamino’s first solo exhibit entitled “A Bowtie For John Lyle”. The title is taken from a lost music piece which Buencamino’s father had used for the end credits of a film. As Buencamino describes it, the piece utilized a 12 tone scale which presumably progresses into a looped arc, hence (a fragmented melody that can be infinitesimally played back on and on), infinity drawn between the staff lines, a matrix resembling a bowtie. Similar patterns of self-reflexivity are repeated through out most of the paintings featured in the show. The piece being dedicated to him by his composer father, Buencamino in turn plays a bit of a comical homage to him. Every piece of canvas features Buencamino and his dad faced-off as in an earnest discussion about language, in worded balloons they mouth off lines from a Gershwin song “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off”. In one, they’re shadowed by a Rorschach pattern, its symmetry echoing the black bowties each of them are wearing with their crisp white shirts, an outfit which either indicates mastery or servitude. Thus, the mise-en-scene obviously plays-off on a ceaseless dialogue of failed or misconstrued interpretations about one thing defined by its mere opposite. How much of it is lost in several translations lay in the vagaries of time and form.

“A Bowtie for John Lyle” opens on July 4 at 6:30 PM. The show will run until July 31, 2006.

Mag:net Gallery ABS is at The Loop, ELJ Center , ABS-CBN compound, Mother Ignacia Avenue corner Eugenio Lopez St. QC. For details please call 4100995 or email magnetplus@gmail.com or visit magnet.com.ph