OPENING
Wednesday 17th May, 2023
5 pm - 8 pm
Primo Marella Gallery #lugano is pleased to present After Sundown, the first impressive RONSON CULIBRINA's solo-exhibition, exclusively conceived for the gallery spaces.Curated by Ruel Caasi in cooperation with The Working Animals Art Projects (TWA) and CLOUDGREY
Graduated from the Technological University of the Philippines (TUP), Ronson Culibrina currently lives and works in the Philippines. He bagged the 2018 Fernando Zobel Prize for the Visual Arts of the Ateneo Art Awards, for which he received a residency grant to Liverpool Hope University-Creative Campus in the United Kingdom. In his past works, he has explored the themes of history, cultural influences, and diaspora through appropriation of works by old masters and injecting elements from contemporary popular culture.Ronson Culibrina opens a solo exhibition presenting a new iteration of his take on contemporary society as a chaotic and frenzied juxtaposition of images, forms, and references from diverse sources. In After Sundown, the artist imagines a riotous encounter between the seemingly disparate worlds of history, classical art, mythology, and consumer society to suggest how colonial history, capitalism, and globalization have shaped and continue to direct the circulation and consumption of commodities as well as the diffusion of cultures.
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