JIGGER CRUZ- PRESS RELEASE

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