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JOSE Tence Ruiz may have become the toast of the art world since his sculptural installation “Shoal” became the first official Philippine work to be exhibited at the 2015 Venice Biennale after half a century, but not too many people know that he is one of the pioneers of digital art in Southeast Asia.
The knowledge gap about his prolific oeuvre is now somehow filled through Takwil: Pixelated Anxiety, a 20-year inventory exhibit of his digitally printed art at the Main Gallery of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts last August.
Dating from 1996 to present, Ruiz’s works are along his social-realist aesthetics and depicted social concerns such as terrorism, gun trafficking, abductions of overseas Filipino workers, Manila’s traffic jams, and corruption.
Perhaps because he was a newspaper illustrator and political cartoonist in Manila and Singapore before turning to art full time, the UST Fine Arts alumnus and former faculty member has always tackled socio-economic and global concerns in his works.
But Ruiz said he had also experimented with mediums, mixing media for instance as when he put digital images on canvas, paper and vinyl to emphasize the digital print’s underrated permanence.
“We live in the digital age, yet people are still not convinced that digital a
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Jose Tence Ruiz Simulates the Fracture of Modern Society in New Exhibit
The Carbon Footprint of the Stoic Heroic, the new exhibition by Jose Tence Ruiz in Silverlens Manila, pulses with provocation as the artist presents his viewpoints and perspectives on a gallery-wide exhibition. From discussions of genocide and colonialism to blind religious fervor, the exhibit seeks to analyze and critique society’s hunger for power and its effect on the populace.
“The artist’s new paintings engage with a range of current events that disturb and provoke him—the horrors of genocide, the migrant crisis, the sanctimony of religious conservatives—while a handful of self-portraits in the small gallery invite the viewer to interpret his most personal subject: himself,” the exhibit write-up said.
Ripped From the Crises of Our World
The works of Jose Tence Ruiz exhibited here reckon with timely topics of interest, some seemingly ripped from the headlines. The almost-70-year-old artist desires to push the audience towards action regarding the different moral crises facing our populace.
One painting, “Morion, Miron, Moron, Meron,” challenges the reactionary nature of the church, depicting drag queen Pura Luka Vega in a costume reminiscent of those seen in t