Past
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Cross Currents
5 Feb - 9 Mar 2024 Qube Gallery and Eskinita Art Farm, in collaboration with Alliance Française de Manille, proudly present 'Cross Currents' at the 2024 Art Fair Philippines’ 10 Days Before Art Fair PH. This exhibition showcases artists from Luzon and the Visayas, highlighting the diverse artistic heritage of these regions. 'Cross Currents' offers a... Read more -
Devotion
Qube Gallery x NUSTAR 17 - 31 Jan 2024 Read more -
CHROMATICized
13 - 31 Jan 2024 Read more -
Strange Beasts 2: Elemental
14 - 31 Dec 2023 Read more
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FOCUS
A Photography Exhibition 23 Nov - 31 Dec 2023 In the realm of photography, 'FOCUS' pertains to the clarity and sharpness of an image. In the broader context of life, it serves as a reminder to concentrate on what is truly important and to drown out the noise that impedes our growth. Read more -
Qube at the VIsayas Art Fair 2023
featuring Ghost Mountain Field, Sio Montera, Gil Maningo, Jewelle Yeung and Anton Quisumbing 23 Nov - 31 Dec 2023 Read more -
Heritage in DistINKtion
Rey Narvasa 1 Oct - 30 Nov 2023 Read more -
Xandrine
Arcanas 23 Sep - 30 Nov 2023 Read more
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The World In Love With Itself
A Photography Exhibition 2 Sep - 30 Nov 2023 Read more -
Qube at MoCAF
featuring Khriss Bajade, Dennis Montera, Neil Felipp, Jewelle Yeung and Anton Quisumbing 28 Jul - 31 Aug 2023 Read more -
Metamorphi
Linya Fernandez 18 Jul - 31 Aug 2023 Read more -
Historical Distortion
Raymond Legaspi 13 Jul - 31 Aug 2023 In Historical Distortion, Silaynon artist Raymond Legaspi interweaves chronicled national events, art masters' famous works, and paintings he is particularly fond of into his abstract creations. His deep appreciation for Filipino history fuels this exploration, infusing his works with the spirit of the past as he carefully selects significant events... Read more
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Baybayon
Beverly Catampo 1 - 31 Jul 2023 “Babayon”, a collection of works by Beverly Catampo, emerges as a culmination of her rural coastal upbringing and her years of art study. In this exhibition, the artist presents her reflections on life, shaped by her coastal community, and invites a dialogue between the artist, community, and culture. The works... Read more -
Metamorphosing
Marie Nelle Valmoria 1 - 31 Jul 2023 'Weaving the woman, woman figure, folktale, narrative, social issues, traditional, digital art-making process, and augmented reality through a physical approach, I encourage people to look beyond the folktale rather than to see it just as it is. Most often than not, narratives are more than just stories; they, too, play... Read more -
MUGNA DIX
24 Jun - 8 Jul 2023 Read more -
LIMBS
Of Human Physicality 22 Jun - 6 Jul 2023 Read more
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LIL RASCALS
22 Jun - 6 Jul 2023 Read more -
ITUM NA IDÔ
The Black Dog Series 6 - 20 Jun 2023 Read more -
Independence Reimagined
2 - 30 Jun 2023 Read more -
FIGURE OUT: Temporal and Conceptual Configurations in Non-Pictorial Space
Dennis 'Sio' Montera 22 May - 30 Jun 2023 Read more
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Mother and Child
Reimagined & Recast by 40 Contemporary Artists 11 - 31 May 2023 Read more -
Koantum Balud
Usa ka pagsugid sa Kontemporariong Kamatuota'ng Bisaya 9 - 20 May 2023 Read more -
Bejeweled
27 Apr - 31 May 2023 Combining sculptures & paintings inspired by the idea that all living things, including humans, are interconnected by energy; and that wholeness is the result of a steady flow of balanced energy between systems both internal and external, the group sought to create artworks inspired by the energy meridians, often called... Read more -
Salta
Puluy-an Artists Collective 28 Mar - 31 May 2023 Read more
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Landscapes of Diaspora
Janine Barrera 15 Feb - 31 Mar 2023 A quick scan of the global art scene seems to show a recent trend in art production that refers to artists in “diaspora”. “Diaspora” (pronounced , Di-as-po-ra) refers to the dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland either in waves of immigration or individually, usually in order... Read more -
ART FAIR PHILIPPINES 2023 feat. Words Unspoken
Jewelle Yeung 15 - 20 Feb 2023 Presenting a new series of artworks by Chinese-Filipino abstractionist Jewelle Yeung “Words Unspoken”, in which she instinctively associates her emotions and intellections with mediums and elements that manifest a rather honest and distinct account of her life. From Yeung’s many gestural techniques of faceting, fragmenting, enfolding, and blending, what emerges... Read more -
Under The Same Southern Sky
Alliance Française de Manille 9 Feb - 30 Apr 2023 Read more -
Beyond Borders In Parallel Time
Isabel Echevarria 31 Jan - 30 Apr 2023 Isabel Echevarria's (b. 1955, Manila) plethora of complex ideas is revealed through her signature monochrome photorealism yet impressionistic works, which are accented with elements of bright and captivating hues, meaning, sentiments, and her awareness of cross-cultural differences as her border zones: between here and there, past and future, self and... Read more
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Avalanche
Andre Chan 20 Jan - 4 Feb 2023 Read more -
I Am
Kean Larrazabal 12 - 26 Jan 2023 Read more -
"and floaters"
Ronyel Compra 5 - 16 Jan 2023 Read more -
Qube x Visayas Art Fair 2022
27 Nov - 31 Dec 2022 Read more
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Liwat Liwat (Repeat)
Qube x Orange Project 23 Nov - 31 Dec 2022 Read more -
Mythologies
Ivy Marie Apa 17 Nov - 10 Dec 2022 Read more -
Dwight Lu
Silver Gelatin Prints 12 Nov - 10 Dec 2022 Dwight Lu’s (b. 1983) landscape photography reflects his quest for self reflection within nature. His locations range from North America to Asia where he captures vistas devoid of humans, creating a body of work that reflects the personal journey of a man viewing the world though a lens that speaks... Read more -
Rites/Rituals
an all-Visayan women show curated by Karina Broce 4 - 22 Oct 2022 Rites / Rituals explores the various "rites of passage" of women. Represented by various artists from Negros Occidental and Cebu, the exhibition seeks to explore collective and individual identities shaped by culture, tradition, religion, and society. Questioning and probing societal customs, defining cultivated norms through upbringing, the artists explored personal rituals created, adapted, and routines set upon oneself. With the unexpected disruption of normal day-to-day activities and life in general caused by global events in recent years, how does one configure what was to what became? Each considers particular notions and practices as bearers of the past and, with an informed consciousness, a desire to convey their aspirations for the future. Moving forward in this specific place and time, each takes in to account the undeniable influences and transformational experiences brought upon by a post-pandemic existence - circumstances beyond our control - yet an opportunity to spark change within the individual self. As part of the ritual, each mindfully and deliberately chooses their medium in a process that best represents them. (by Karina Broce) Read more
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Joyful Textures
Margarita Cajumban 1 - 22 Oct 2022 Read more -
Underdeveloped & Overexposed
Yxandro Romualdez 15 - 30 Sep 2022 Memories are like leaves of grass dancing through the strong winds of change. The gust takes us on an intangible journey that opens the door to the past. We can walk into a flurry of feelings that feel worlds apart. We can witness the end of the world, where nothing... Read more -
Dangerous Beauty
Amanda LuYm 8 - 30 Sep 2022 Read more -
New Chapter
Zaldy Garra 6 Sep - 31 Oct 2022 Read more
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Perception
Group show 26 Aug - 30 Sep 2022 Read more -
Veneered Desires
Jay Nathan Jore 6 - 24 Aug 2022 Read more -
Pucker & Bloat
Mona Alcudia 6 - 24 Aug 2022 Read more -
Party Peepz
Alburoto, Jesse Camacho, Kiko Moran 4 - 24 Aug 2022 Party Peepz JT Gonzales Nothing like a party to lift our mood! Or so we think. Hearty cheers. Balloons. Punch, sangria or beer. Maybe even an aperol spritz. Pick your potion of choice. It’s time to celebrate life. And we need a reason to. The past two years have been... Read more
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Vessels of Time
Group show 4 - 24 Aug 2022 Curated by Christian Ray Villanueva Read more -
Pearls
Archie Geotina 1 - 31 Aug 2022 Pearls, the viral photography exhibit, conceptualized by Archie Geotina is open to the public at Qube Contemporary, Design Center of Cebu, A.S. Fortuna St. Read more -
No Straight Lines
Golda King 1 - 31 Aug 2022 No Straight Lines With her characteristic modesty, Golda King hesitates in calling herself an “artist”. Instead, she opts for the titles of “painter” or a “maker of art”. She understands the weight of the word: that being an artist requires both the prowess to conceptualize a message and the talent... Read more -
MoCAF 2022 (Modern and Contemporary Art Festival)
Khriss Bajade, Dennis 'Sio' Montera, Popo San Pascual, Anton Quisumbing, Jewelle Yeung 29 Jul - 31 Aug 2022 Read more
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Un Mundo En Color (A World of Color)
Maria Burgaz 14 May - 15 Jun 2022 Read more -
A Remembrance of Rain
Ryan Uy 29 Apr - 31 May 2022 The Remnants of Rain by JT Gonzales, curator There is, in the soft splish-splash of rain, something profoundly poignant. A steady rhythmic patter, a breeze that ruffles locks of hair, clouds skidding across the heavens. The alleys and pathways are quiet. The solitary pedestrian might pause, and breathe in the... Read more -
Into The Blue
Angela Silva 23 Mar - 1 Apr 2022 In the exhibit INTO THE BLUE, mixed-media artist and printmaker Angela Silva invites viewers to immerse themselves in a deep blue panorama of works in cyanotype, an antique image-capturing method that predates film photography and produces pictures in gradients of cyan. Divided into two sub-shows, INTO THE BLUE presents the... Read more -
Punan Ang Patlang
Neil Carandang 10 - 31 Mar 2022 PUNAN ANG PATLANG The human subjects in Neil Carandang’s series know that they are being surveilled. They are watched by animals, almost waiting to be pounced on, a menagerie in reverse. We are also surveilling them, trying to decipher their actions and fill in their obscure intentions. The psychological cost... Read more
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Baggage Revolution
Mijan Jumalon 10 - 31 Mar 2022 BAGGAGE REVOLUTION Mijan Jumalon’s latest series of works form a multiptych, an entire landscape of forked pathways pushing their way through a crimson prairie. The environment and its residents approximate an almost Boschian performance with its subjects enacting a melancholy gathering. There is a scattering of figures in owl masks... Read more -
Angina
Amacio | Austria | Lock | Perez | Penaso | Zaide 12 Feb - 8 Mar 2022 Angina, a type of chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart. Angina (an-JIE-nuh or AN-juh-nuh) is a symptom of coronary artery disease. Angina, also called angina pectoris, is often described as squeezing, pressure, heaviness, tightness or pain in your chest. Read more -
Karatula - Children of the rainbow
Kean Larrazabal 27 Jan - 19 Feb 2022 A portmanteau of the Philippine words, “karton” (cardboard), and “tula” (poem), KaraTula is Kean Larrazabal’s first physical one-man show. By occupying space between cardboards and poetry, KaraTula explores the allegories and visual poetries of day to day life of the regular person, caught in the incessant struggles of existing and... Read more -
Time Transfixed
Joseph Gandiongco 27 Jan - 19 Feb 2022 TIME TRANSFIXED: Joseph Gandiongco Written By: Edwin Ao The universe of Gandiongco’s art explores motionless narratives, practices, and aesthetics. It is a story of abandonment, regression, and rapture; of humanity and nature succumbing to the pressure of obscure forces and the not-so-distant still dimension reimagined by the artist. In his... Read more
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Metanoia
Andre Chan 8 Dec 2021 - 31 Jan 2022 With its roots in Shinto and Mahanaya buddhism, Andre Chan's “METANOIA” taps into the notion of regeneration. The works bring to life, death, then life again, the quintessential ideas surrounding reikon — the equivalent to soul in western culture.
With long, sporadic paint strokes across the number of canvasses, the idea of a wandering spirit is consistent. This is in likeness of the searching for one’s final feat. Simultaneously, such long paint strokes also are representation of the cold course — the traumas - that one reaps in the simple action of living life. Altogether, such elements are essential in making man who he is. In the absence of these elements, he is not made man. Read more -
Midnight Society
Yxandro 13 Nov - 10 Dec 2021 It is as if a neo-impressionist from the 1800s existed in the present and instead of the bucolic he paints the vigor and joy of his fleeting youth in the city in hazy imagery dazed by the flickering in bars and light posts. This is a brief account of the... Read more -
Carnival Quintet
Alburoto | Bryan Antonio | Jesse Camacho | Kiko Moran | Martkills 15 Oct - 10 Nov 2021 Everyone loves a circus - but will the circus love you back?
To some, a circus may trigger memories of the wondrous joys of childhood. It’s the excitement of a fair arriving in town, candy striped tents being set up, and barkers crowing all sorts of delights. The popcorn and candy give off all sorts of heavenly smells, and there are tons of prizes waiting to be won, just over at the next booth.
That certainly seems to be the approach by carnie-kid Jesse Camacho, with his hero “Jack” all adorned in clown make-up (“Why Do I Have To”) or imprisoned in impossible chains, à la Houdini (“Comfort”). On the other hand, the elfin Gemart Ortega serves up delightful confections of kids smothered and dripping in ice cream flavors, just like those most pleasant dreams of that corner ice cream parlor dishing out perpetual sundaes and sorbets.
To others, a circus may refer to something more sinister. Wunderkid Aldrin Tamidles, aka Alburoto, makes snide references to the crocodiles in the government. In “Clone”, his jester puts on another costume - that of rapacious gator - on top of his clown suit. “Crocodile Tears” serves up the head of the reptile on a dish, dagger in hand. (And crocodiles seem to be a favorite, as Jesse Camacho’s avatar scoops out fish from the jaws of a croc in his “For Fame”.)
As it is very pointedly remarked upon by the dead serious Kiko Moran in his almost-fluorescent works, with bold crimson, orange and lemon-yellow colors jumping off his canvasses, the Philippine government is failing in all of its challenges, whether it be that of mainland China (“Carou-Xi”), the pandemic (“Imyunito”), mental health (“Mindfulness”) or hunger (Adolf Eater) - a real circus in itself.
Meanwhile, Bryan Antonio, aka Humbly in his past incarnation, offers a peek from an almost-alien perspective, with his diffuse, wide-eyed critters (“Happy Inside” and “Light in the Darkness”) giving goosebumps to the onlooker. What is it with those otherworldly eyes that gaze at us and make us think that we are the strange ones? Are we, instead, the carnival curiosities?
Gemart Ortega dishes out ‘Melba’, an adorable kid wallowing in sticky ice cream pigtails and Jesse Camacho sculpts an impish apple picker named JackLeQuin (after harlequin, get it?). Kiko Moran, on the other hand, and true to the times, dreams up his ‘Imyunito,’ a just-vaxxed hero with both a hypodermic needle as well as a speech bubble attached. Bryan Antonio gives us, in “Happy Adventure”, one of his famous bootleg toys - a clown, of course!
All of these phantasmagorical yet oh-so-real tests of our sanity would make the most normal of us run to the madhouse. Or better yet, its nearest functioning equivalent, the circus. At least, there, the house of horrors harbors quite ordinary denizens. Or does it?
What a delightful circus to get lost in. So take those clunky shoes off, sit back, and enjoy this roller coaster of a ride. Read more -
The Shape Of Memory
Dennis 'Sio' Montera 9 Oct - 5 Dec 2021 It brings to the foreground the texture, the pigments, the colors, and all other visual elements in order to let them speak for themselves. Form no longer hides beneath familiar imagery and narrative. What can only be intelligible becomes incarnate, tactile and tangible. And yet, as the theologians would say... Read more
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Kalibunan Series 2
Alee Garibay | Alyssa Selanova | Anjo Bolarda | Greys Lockhe 15 Sep - 9 Oct 2021 Extending the road to survive unfamiliarity and establishing artistic and economic niches and communities determine the horizon upon which artists in the diaspora understand themselves, emerge as alternative groups, and express their diverse experiences of culture and identity in a shifting realm. Kalibunan 2, the second Kalibunan Series iteration, echoes... Read more -
Honi ug Banika
Celso Duazo & Fe Madrid Pepito 22 Jul - 15 Aug 2021 Read more -
Dancing with our Shadow
Raymond Legaspi 8 Jul - 19 Aug 2021 Read more -
(D)amgo = Dream. Realization.
Geovanni Abing | Nicole Asares | Irish Galon | JJawzip | Gabi Nazareno | Jumjum Ouano | Jeffrey Sisican 5 - 30 Jun 2021 Read more
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Chapter IV: Highlight
Khriss Bajade 22 May - 30 Jun 2021 Read more -
Ordinary Happiness
MOREEN AUSTRIA 15 Apr - 15 May 2021 Ordinary Happiness In his 1942 essay, the French Philosopher Albert Camus had attempted to explain the “inevitability of happiness.” Comparing the situation of Sisyphus to the absurdity of human life, Camus explained that reconciling with the futility of our living tasks, one can reach a state of acceptance for which... Read more -
Gigi Ocampo
GIGI OCAMPO 20 Mar - 31 May 2021 Read more -
Unheaven by your Side
SOIKA 19 Jan - 22 Feb 2021 Read more
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Niño x Negros
Abantao | Campos | Cervantes | Co | Delleva | Espuerta | Hecita | Javier | Legaspi | Montelibano | Tijing 18 Jan - 15 Feb 2021 Many a miracle has been attributed to the Sto. Nino de Cebu, the infant boy swathed in elaborate, jewel-encrusted garments. Over the past 500 years, as a newly-mapped territory took tentative steps towards nationhood and civilization, an icon gifted to the local nobility stood watch.
That innocent countenance bore witness to the fruits of the labors, the display of talents, and the flowering of genius, even, demonstrated by the denizens it sheltered. At the same time, it also radiated its own restorative powers to the faithful, dispensing miracles to those in need.
Those miracles, ranging from the curing of poison, rescue from fires, survival from peril, and a host of other wondrous tales, gave hope to the faithful, and succour to the deprived. In these COVID-ravaged times, the need for a miracle has never been as keenly felt as today.
Art, in turn, is by its very nature perpetually miraculous. From the depths of an artist’s imagination come a vision realized. Beauty is made physically manifest. On blank canvass, a statement, an expression, or even opposition, is suddenly writ. Fleeting emotions are made permanently tangible. From nothing comes not just something, but a fixture in the firmament.
This show is a gathering of tributes from artists hailing from Negros island, all of them marshaling their unique talents to honor and pay homage to the icon of Cebu. And, as we see in these equivalents of frankincense and myrrh, we are treated to glorious celebrations of a child that gives the gifts of happiness and hope to its faithful.
We look to the aspect of the joyous and the glorious. This is the gleeful child, a tot of laughter and sweet innocence, a remembrance of all that is tender and still very much true.
It is a pandemic out there, but we have not lost all hope. And we have art to remind us of just that. Read more -
Pop Polar
JP Duray x Anoni Mouse 5 - 31 Dec 2020 These are the days which will be written into history books. We will look back, ponder on the imponderables, and retrace the events as they came flooding in and overwhelming us, pushing humanity aside and tearing normality apart.
What then, the pandemic’s impact on art? More specifically, how did this horrific nightmare and its innumerable consequences affect Filipino artists?
JP Duray can be viewed through this lens. A study in contradictions, JP is apparently reserved, even aloof. But unlike introverts, he breaks out into song, dishes tunes from his portable piano, and jerks into dance moves at the slightest provocation. Good looking, one would have thought that klieg lights and glamour poses would hold more attraction for him than the more laborious and painstaking world of creating molds, sculpting resin, and applying war paint.
But this gregarious lad is now known for the most fantastic, beautifully bizarre pop sculptures. JP’s quirky sensibilities translate into figurines fashioned from his inexhaustible imagination.
Babies with insatiable hunger pangs get represented as diaper-clad tots, but gifted with gaping jaws that are embedded within extended bellies.
A representation of what seems to be Senator Leila de Lima gets sculpted into a Wonder Woman/Darna costume, with a wrist-cuffed hand pointed to the heavens.
White-coated surgeons are rendered with various body parts held in the palms of their hands - a representation that became especially popular with real doctors at the height of the pandemic, as though medical professionals needed artistic validation in JP’s figurines.
That was Face A. That was pre-covid. But JP has other facets to him, and this pandemic has enabled him to tap into those other dimensions, and reveal other creative directions he wishes to pursue.
In this show, JP intends to debut another of his facets. Christened with the moniker “Anoni Mouse,” this other artist within JP’s complex personae prefers works on canvas, peppered with orifices, lips and other sorts of appendages. Anoni amalgamates body openings into a striking assemblage of pouts, frowns, and grimaces. Read more -
Playdate
Martkills 5 - 31 Dec 2020 Like a lifetime member of Peter Pan’s boy-band of truants and feckless youths cavorting in Neverland, Gemart Ortega, with his young son in tow, is an irrepressible kid, with a grin that’s easy to surface, accompanied by a shyness that befits a bashful boy.
That is perhaps why Gemart’s works (or Martkills, as he is known in the art world) are so easily translatable to a landscape that children would adore: kid pop with candy and confetti. There is a winsome appeal to Gemart’s characters, even if they be super heroes, as he bestows his characters with chubby, tubby bods, and cheeks that just beg to be pinched. Their eyes are tiny, almost certainly heavy with sleep.
Sprinkle some furry pups, picnic baskets, and even tiny tot costumes, very liberally onto his canvasses and complementing his characters, and Martkills is able to transport the viewers to lullaby-land.
Not to say Martkills doesn’t have his dark side. For other shows, Martkills has whipped out bug-eyed imps with fangs and sculptures that hug the terror genre very closely. Spaceships with aliens are frequent motifs, as well as gargoyles, beasts and all sorts of endearingly fierce creatures that should be displayed at horror museums.
For this show, however, Martkills veers away from macabre, and even the current horrors of covid, and as a way of allowing escape, perhaps even for his own son, he opens up a world of balloons, stuffed animals and plastique toys. The playground is open, the Dino and clown costumes are ready for tot-fittings. It is a world of innocence, of soap bubbles and laughter, of wonder and amazement. The kids run free, and nightmares are forgotten.
This is Martkill’s Crib, and we are welcome to rock in it. For isn’t it that he whose hands rock the cradle, rules the world? And this world, this soothing amusement park, this kindergarten for art lovers, Martkills surely rules. Read more -
Play!
Distort Monsters 18 Nov - 12 Dec 2020 Heavily influenced by elements of skateboarding, and punk rock. Distort Monsters is a street artist primarily known for his colorful characters with bold outlines and multilinear textures. His works are often narrative, and introspective in nature, with his monsters being a visual representation of his conscience. Bringing these monsters to... Read more
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Terra Forma
Jun Escario 18 Nov - 2 Dec 2020 Exquisite Forms Against a Landscape of Textures Exhibition Notes by Carlomar Arcangel Daoana Fashion designers and visual artists share the language of shape, color, and texture. Materials—whether they are fabric or pigment—are examined for their possibilities, how they convey certain ideas or modes of feeling. The preparatory sketches of the... Read more -
Ugat
Group Show 11 Nov - 12 Dec 2020 Entitled “Ugat”, the show is a reference to this counter culture and examine how these cultural influences remain despite where artworks are placed: in the streets where they started, in the galleries where they are formally exhibited, or, eventually, in the walls where they are collected. Organized by Distort Monsters,... Read more -
Connect the Dots
Golda King 15 Oct - 14 Nov 2020 Read more -
Lonesome in a Happy World
Red (Oni) Genotiva 23 Sep - 7 Oct 2020 In this series of work for Qube Gallery, Red (Oni) Genotiva has created the same imaginary landscape filled with rich pastel colors and almost holographic treatment. The playground setting is rich with story telling, inhabited by Jurassic and space age characters. Read more
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Specimen of the Immaculate
Jan Sunday 17 Sep - 6 Oct 2020 The exhibition revolves around the feminine as a divine archetype placing the focus on female figures from various civilizations in prehistory. This brings to the forefront the necessity to question our current male-dominated system that is a juvenile society in contrast to tens and thousands of years of egalitarian and spirit-centered living. Read more -
Waiting to Exhale
COMPRA | MASA | ONG | PONGASE 27 Aug - 6 Oct 2020 Four Cebuano artists (Compra, Masa, Ong and Pongase) have collectively turned into their art during these times. While seemingly holding their breath until better days return, they have named their exhibition, aptly, “Waiting to Exhale”. Read more -
Ban.yu.hay
Antonio Pastoriza | Kevin Roque | Meatfist 20 Aug - 16 Sep 2020 The Filipino word “Banyuhay” translates into the idea of metamorphosis: a process that looks into the cycle of transformation. In this exhibition, three emerging artists are drawn to understand how the evolution of self transpires. Here, an evaluation of the forces that shape these changes is defined through different modes... Read more -
Camping Trip II
Mark Santos | Reen Barrera | TRNZ 1 - 18 Aug 2020 Originally, we had explored the simple, playful idea of Ohlala, Sasquatch and Loon just visiting each other. It would be a riff of each other’s iconic inspirations, a lark of an adventure, a rollicking echo chamber of ideas from three extremely talented artists. It was going to be a joyous reunion, where the simple pleasures of friendship, good food, and new friends would collide, and then leave us and the audience chuckling and gurgling with delight.
Enter the pandemic. Read more
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Donna Dela Cuesta Sy | Geraldine "Gigi" Ocampo | Summer de Guia
5 Sep - 9 Oct 2021 Read more -
Art Fair Philippines 2021
Pierre Marie Brisson: Return to the Garden of Eden 6 - 26 May 2021 This collection is composed of a series of small gouache collage paper works from the artist’s studio in the Camargue, France and large scale works from his Cebu atelier. His body of work depicts the harmonious symbiotic relationship between flora and fauna, animating how poetic and timeless nature is. In... Read more -
Collective Vistas
IMAGES Camera Club 15 Sep - 31 Oct 2023 Read more -
At The Brink of Dawn
Ryan Uy 19 Aug - 15 Sep 2021 Grief is a tide. It comes crashing in waves, all-consuming. And then it ebbs. Slowly, it withdraws.
Grief, however, is a process. It transforms. It may be present, now and today. And then one day, it isn’t.
Ryan Uy has been intimate with grief for more than a year. His father was diagnosed with cancer, and right before the lockdown in March of 2020, his father succumbed. The following months were not easy.
His initial reflex was to fill canvasses with paper cranes. Origami sculptures of peace and healing, painted over and over, the repetition providing solace. The palette chosen for his cranes was flowery hues: blushes of pink, soft yellows and calming blues.
Central to these symbols of hope were solitary figures, boys without faces, hair whipped by the wind. Representing orphans, the boys were left faceless to allow for representation among gazers-by, permitting transference as a way to likewise offer solace.
The pandemic raged, and as vaccines were belatedly procured, it subsided. Gradually, restrictions were eased, businesses opened, and tourists came back to sand and beaches. Ryan’s cranes dwindled, and dreamers began surfacing.
Dreams of normality, if ever that word can still mean anything. Perhaps, dreams of careers and condo living. The corporate ladder. Digital natives and the gig-economy.
It is the break of dawn. The light of day, when we wake up from our dreams, and throw the blankets aside. The moment of reckoning, as we wrestle with truth, and walk into the morrow.
The crane is a compass. Introspection gives meaning and direction. To the morning, we smile. Read more
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Wild Woman Series
Carmen Araneta 26 Oct - 30 Nov 2020 Read more -
Summary of Life
Ilija Gubic 10 Sep - 30 Nov 2020 The world of Ilija Gubic is not a small one, nor is it a simple one. He sees his subjects from an almost tunnel vision, blinding out the noises of culture to arrive at the final common defining elements that tie his world with the rest. “Summary of Life” -... Read more -
Orderly Chaos
Mark Anton Masa 22 May - 31 Jul 2020 Qube Gallery presents “Orderly Chaos,” a body of abstract works by Mark Anton Masa Mark Masa has been known for his works in fashion, advertising, and events. But now, he’s creating a name for himself as a visual artist with his vivid abstractions Read more -
Strokes
Boy Carvajal Kiamko 24 Apr - 31 Jul 2020 Boy Kiamko is a renowned artist based in Cebu City, Philippines. He has staged and participated in countless group shows since 1969. However, this is Kiamko's first and exclusive online exhibition featuring abstract artworks presented by Qube Gallery Read more