Ghost Painting: Toldo Category Part of the Ghost Painting series What are Ghost Paintings? Ghost Painting is a series that covers different categories. It goes beyond the pictorial plane of the surface of the meaning of the reality the image or surface it represent. These paintings have lost their original purpose and have been reduced to their face value. The painting is then painted using adhesive spray trapping dust and other residue in the site where it is located onto its surface. A process that is a continuous work-in-progress. For the Ghost Painting: Toldo Category, used clothes bought from the ukay-ukay (shops that sell secondhand clothing that comes from South Korea, Europe, Australia or the USA that were intended as relief goods and also from textiles shops are sewn together with painted texts that were once used as signs from the local university. These are collaged together with other painted surfaces made by different kinds of people. These paintings are not meant to be stretched onto wooden frames but are pinned to the wall or hanged. Although it may seem confusing, this coating is not what Ghost Painting is about; instead it is akin to the idea of “priming� a blank canvas. The act of painting extends to the public, the receptor of the painting who has the option to paint this using adhesive spray.
(Reference images of how the Ghost Painting: Toldo Category series developed)
Ghost Painting 7004 (Toldo Category) Surface primer: textile, paint on textile 296x392 cms 2015
Ghost Painting 7005 (Toldo Category) Surface primer: textile, paint on textile 284x356 cms 2015
Ghost Painting 7006 (Toldo Category) Surface primer: textile, paint on textile 288x456 cms 2015
Ghost Painting 7007 (Toldo Category) Surface primer: textile, paint on textile 304x420 cms 2015
Ghost Painting 7008 (Toldo Category) Surface primer: textile, paint on textile 272x280 cms 2015
Ghost Painting 7010 (Toldo Category) Surface primer: textile, paint on textile 260x353 cms 2015
Ghost Painting 7008 (Toldo Category) Surface primer: textile, paint on textile 272x370 cms 2015
Ghost Painting 7003 (Toldo Category) Surface primer: textile, paint on textile 264x302 cms 2015
Ghost Painting 70012 (Toldo Category) Surface primer: textile, paint on textile 288x348 cms 2015
Ghost Painting 7013 (Toldo Category) Surface primer: textile, paint on textile 300x299 cms 2015
Ghost Painting 7014 (Toldo Category) Surface primer: textile, paint on textile 308x396 cms 2015
Ghost Painting 7015 (Toldo Category) Surface primer: textile, paint on textile 252x328 cms 2015
KRISTOFFER ARDEÑA KRISTOFFER ARDEÑA. Born and raised in Dumaguete, Philippines but has lived, since 18 years old, between the USA and Europe. He has created individual projects in Museo Carrillo Gil, in Mexico, Selesar Sunaryo, Bandung (Indonesia), Vargas Museum and the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila (Philippines),Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Museum (Madrid), La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Murcia), Spain. He is currently preparing a series of traveling solo exhibitions. He has also participated in various collective projects, among them the 3rd Bucharest Biennale (Romania), 3rd Guangzhou Triennale (China), Konstholl C in Stockholm (Sweden), Caixa Forum in Barcelona and La Casa Encendida in Madrid (Spain), Casino Forum d’Art Contemporain (Luxembourg), Apexart in New York (USA), Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico) and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellin (Colombia).In the next few months he is going to part of 2 group shows at MUSAC and La Conservera in Spain.