Igan D'Bayan's 'Dead Beliefs & Black Vomits' at SM Art Center
MANILA, Philippines - Artist Igan D’Bayan presents his darkest suite of paintings in “Dead Beliefs & Black Vomits,” which opens on July 22, Thursday, 6 p.m., at SM Art Center, fourth floor, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City.
D’Bayan explains, “The show was originally titled ‘Thirteen Pictures To Show What We Have So Far Are Dead Beliefs and Black Vomits.’ The paintings and sculptures explore the failure of History, Politics, Philosophy, Art and Love — shadow on all the things we know, a rain of black puke on everyone’s parade.”
He says it all started out as an intellectual pursuit: about philosophers and their prejudices (Nietzsche, for example), about the punk-like parodying of symbols (swastikas, inverted crosses), about painting as an exercise in necrophilia (conceptual art has allegedly slain painting). But as the artist went through intense personal turmoil, the paintings acquired an autobiographical dimension — “the palette became grayer, the images more burdened, everything got more blearily screwed up.”
The show is on view until Aug. 3.
For information, call Chari Elinzano or Inas Amoyo at 635-6061.
