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Argie Bandoy 'Seasoning the Obese' at Mag:net Paseo Argie Badoy opens the new year on an acerbic yet good-humored note in "Seasoning the Obese", his fifth one-man exhibition, at Mag:net Paseo gallery from January 10 to 30, 2007. 'Seasoning the Obese' features Bandoy's recent oil-on-canvas paintings, collages, and works on paper. The show (the title of which is culled from the song title of a band called "Storm Troopers of Death", which the artist used to listen to in his younger days) features works that are deliberately "badly painted", "crude" and "unfinished", where abstract and minimalist forms have "accumulated into multi layered accidents and uncertainty", and where textual elements are "accidentally misspelled". Calling the show a "celebration of failures as well as good laughter", Bandoy utilizes spontaneously-conceived images, multi-layered "accidents", and abstraction to poke symbolic fun at the peripheral and central players in the art world, at the "greedy, the rich, the intellectuals, the morons, the theorists, the talkers, the posers, the dreamers, the non-believers, the critics, the history of art, the market, the collectors, the academe, etcetera." "It's like I'm putting them all in a big boiling pot that toasts them to death," the artist comments. Argie Bandoy studied Fine Arts at the University of the East. He has been active in various group group exhibitions affiliated with the Surrounded by Water art space since 1996. Bandoy was also among the resident artists of the Big Sky Mind artist project foundation in 2004. 'Seasoning the Obese' is his 5th solo exhibition and his second to be held at the mag:net galleries. 'Seasoning the Obese" opens on January 10 at Mag:net Paseo, located at Paseo de Roxas corner Sedeno St. Makati City. The show will run until the end of the month. For details please call 8177895 or emai |
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