Philippine Daily Inquirer
Date: October 23, 2017
In the series “Finding Freedom Between the Lines,”
Taiwanese artist Yang Ding-Xian works with a palette that recalls a garden—a story of
“Out of Time 2,” by Yang Ding-Xian
life and vitality as seen in hard stone cutting through soft moss.
Ding-Xian works with Western painting tools to express ancient Eastern wisdom. These are rendered in a harmonious mix of soft colors woven in with more definite, calligraphic brushwork, in the Chinese tradition of collapsing foreground and background to achieve balance.
The show, presented by Hiraya Gallery, is running until Nov. 11 at Makati Shangri-La.
Arcamo at Kaida
“Emotive Regulations,” an exhibit of Mark Arcamo’s painting, is on view until at Kaida Contemporary.
Arcamo practices restraint in his creative provocations. Set against his scaled-down figures caught in motion, even Arcamo’s seated subjects, while at rest, seem to be at the ready to burst into action, muscles tensed, impending explosion. [FULL STORY]
