" Recent Works "
August 3 - 31, 2008                   

Abstractionist Rock Drilon unveils an exhibition of recent paintings on August 3 at the Galleria Duemila in Pasay City. The show, which runs until the end of August, is a selection of acrylic on canvas works produced by the artist within the past three years.

Recent Works contains both large and small-scale canvases. Present in the paintings are recurring motifs in Drilon's previous body of works: forms born out of entanglements and unwinding, denoting structures of rumination and resolution. The smaller canvases in the show contain less forms and elements than the artist's larger works-reflecting a process of a paring down perhaps?

Interestingly, the paintings were created at a point in the artist's life where he has been fulfilling several simultaneous roles: as a painter, father, and director of Mag:net, an art space. The paintings in this show were produced mostly during the artist's free time since 2005, in between conceptualizing and overseeing other visual arts exhibitions and troubleshooting events as they came. Drilon compares the act of managing the entirety of Mag:net's gallery and cafe operations to the act of painting: a process and commitment that can often have unexpected, though nonetheless rewarding, results.

Rock Drilon studied under the tutelage of the late modernist Jose Joya while at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. He has regularly held solo exhibitions throughout the Philippines, and in South East Asia, Europe and the United States.

Recent Works by Rock Drilon will open on August 3, 2008 at Galleria Duemila, 210 Loring Street, Pasay City. The show will be on view up to the 31^st of August. For inquiries, please contact Mimi Santos at Tel. No. 831-9990 or email duemila@mydestiny.net 

For exhibition inquiries, please call 831-9990 and 833-9815, or email duemila@mydestiny.net