JC Jacinto at Taipei Dangdai 2020 by Artinformal

JC JACINTO

For immediate release The Arrow That Pierced Time 16 – 19 Jan 2020 Booth S08, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1 (4th Floor) No. 1, Jingmao 2nd Road, Nangang District, Taipei City VIP VIEWING

(invitation only) 2pm-5pm, Thursday, 16 January 2020 VERNISSAGE (by invitation or advance ticket) 5pm-9pm, Thursday, 16 January 2020 PUBLIC DAYS 11am-6pm, Friday, 17 January 2020 11am-6pm, Saturday, 18 January 2020 11am-5:30pm, Sunday, 19 January 2020

The highest summit took several million years of earth movement to occur and the highest man-made tower took only six years to build. This innate tendency to hasten processes has served as man’s hallmark – the need to carve the world; to fit it in out lifetime; and to have it revolve around us rather than allowing it to evolve naturally. JC Jacinto investigates this notion as he gravitates towards experimentation on chemistry and simulation of organic transformation. In this exhibition, Jacinto exposes us to images of mineral/rock formation that appear to exist in an imagined biome. In it, we see flux of colors and textures that seem to organically form as minerals but in reality, they are depicting transformations, timelapsed and condensed into a single frame. Through these altered states we see reinterpretations of faux minerals, coral-like formations and rocks that are involuntarily reconfigured, manipulated and tailored to Jacinto’s vision. Equally compelling are his sculptures/objects that birth from his experimentation from wood petrification. Jacinto utilizes nature as his collaborator, allowing it to propagate and renegotiate with his desired outcome, resulting into abstraction that retains a connection to the world. In The Arrow that Pierced Time we are encouraged to consider our limitation to grasp nature, to forge it grounded to our needs and to submit it to human time - albeit ironic, Jacinto holds man’s way up to an unforgiving light. — For more information, contact +63 917 897 6691, info@artinformal.com —

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JC Jacinto The Arrow That Pierced Time

The Arrow That Pierced Time

The highest summit took several million years of earth movement to occur and the highest man-made tower took only six years to build. This innate tendency to hasten processes has served as man’s hallmark – the need to carve the world; to fit it in out lifetime; and to have it revolve around us rather than allowing it to evolve naturally. JC Jacinto investigates this notion as he gravitates towards experimentation on chemistry and simulation of organic transformation. In this exhibition, Jacinto exposes us to images of mineral/rock formation that appear to exist in an imagined biome. In it, we see flux of colors and textures that seem to organically form as minerals but in reality, they are depicting transformations, time-lapsed and condensed into a single frame. Through these altered states we see re-interpretations of faux minerals, coral-like formations and rocks that are involuntarily reconfigured, manipulated and tailored to Jacinto’s vision. Equally compelling are his sculptures/objects that birth from his experimentation from wood petrification. Jacinto utilizes nature as his collaborator, allowing it to propagate and renegotiate with his desired outcome, resulting into abstraction that retains a connection to the world. In The Arrow that Pierced Time we are encouraged to consider our limitation to grasp nature, to forge it grounded to our needs and to submit it to human time - albeit ironic, Jacinto holds man’s way up to an unforgiving light.

JC Jacinto

JC Jacinto (b. 1985) has been slowly moving from painting mostly organic subjects to using actual organic materials for his new take on painting. This mirrors his earlier shift from painting figures to painting apparitions, if not abstractions, of these same figures. His interest in the autonomous life of rocks, trees, and minerals and their inherent capacity to record their lives and the passage of time figure prominently in recent exhibitions such as A Crack in Everything (2018) at Artinformal and Independent As The Sun (2018) at Art Stage Singapore. He received his arts education from the University of the Philippines. In 2014, he completed a residency at the Abu Dhabi Art Hub. In 2019, he was shortlisted for the Fernando Zobel Prize in the Ateneo Art Awards for his solo exhibition A Crack in Everything (2018).