JIGGER CRUZ
Opening: June 9, 2016 6:00 pm
EXHIBITION TIME:
OPENING HOURS:
June 9 - July 30, 2016
Monday - Friday 10.00 am- 6:00 pm Saturday by appointment
Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Via Canonica 7, 6900 Lugano / www.primaenoctis.com / info@primaenoctis.com Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Via Canonica 7, 6900 Lugano / www.primaenoctis.com / info@primaenoctis.com
Primae Noctis Art Gallery
PRESS RELEASE: JIGGER CRUZ Primae Noctis Art Gallery is pleased to present the second solo show of Jigger Cruz, one of the most interesting young artist of the Asian art scene. Jigger Cruz has been selected by Stelva to participate at Artist in Residence’s Program in Desenzano del Garda. The project aims to allow foreign artists to work in a new context, increasing their international relations and benefiting from artistic influences. www.artistinresidence.ch Primae Noctis Art Gallery in Lugano will be exposed the works that he created during these months in Desenzano’s Residence, in an exhibition that is a reflection of his artistic career, often irreverent and unpredictable. Jigger’s art practice is characterized by his idea to play with defacement and vandalization, making use of the oil colour, the spray paint and the rough interventions on the canvases, which he uses to burn and, in some cases, even to cut. Each artwork was born from a painted canvas, where the artist copied the Flemish and Post-Renaissance masters. Apparently without a logical scheme, Cruz applies layer by layer the dense oil colour, not only hiding, rather mystifying the classical backdrop. The artworks made for this exhibition explore the concept of failure in the visual dialogue between utter surface and inner content, between past and present, between figuration and abstraction. Jigger Cruz is a young Philippino artist already quoted in the intenational auction houses in the world. He studied Fine Arts at the Far Eastern University in the Philippines and design at De La Salle-College of St. Benilde.
Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Via Canonica 7, 6900 Lugano / www.primaenoctis.com / info@primaenoctis.com
Primae Noctis Art Gallery
JIGGER CRUZ while working
Recent Solo-show: 2016
Smudging dirty little touch - Albertz Benda, New York, NY 2015
Subtraction Paradise - ARNDT, Berlino Deep down into the ecstasy of false modernism - Primo Marella Gallery Milan, Milano Smudging Dirty Little Touch - Albertz Benda, New York, NY 2013
Surface Default - Light & Space Contemporary, Quezon City 2012
Glitch Habitation - Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Lugano Spatial Soother, West Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines 2011
Dead End, West Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines Anti Depressants on Paper, Crucible Gallery, Mandaluyong City
Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Via Canonica 7, 6900 Lugano / www.primaenoctis.com / info@primaenoctis.com
Primae Noctis Art Gallery
Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Via Canonica 7, 6900 Lugano / www.primaenoctis.com / info@primaenoctis.com