UTOT Painting series The idea is that you can add to the painting by placing, combining, reconfiguring it with other elements or activating it through actions or gestures that are completely idiosyncratic and not based on given instructions by the artist. The painting gets dirty, modified, stained, folded or become embedded with other physical manifestations due these different modes of engagement.
Utot 1 Painting 76x68 cms. 2016
Utot 2 Painting 76x68 cms. 2016
Utot 3 Painting 76x68 cms. 2016
KRISTOFFER ARDEÑA. Lives between Dumaguete (Philippines) and Madrid (Spain). Individual projects include: Museo Carrillo Gil, in Mexico, Selesar Sunaryo Art Space, Ruang Mes56 and Cemeti Art House (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 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, MUSAC in León (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). Currently developing the curatorial platform Moving Image Lab Filipinas (MILF) which experiments on video as an exhibition format with the goal of expanding and decentralizing the contemporary art scene outside of Manila and creating network and collaboration not only in the Philippines but in Southeast Asia as well as with Latin America and Spain. He is also developing a solo traveling exhibition that will go different museums in Europe and Asia that will be curated by Patrick Flores, director of the Vargas Museum (Philippines) and Menene Gras, director of Visual Arts of Casa Asia (Spain).