Sio Montera: Exhibits Latest Abstract Art @ Bluewater Gallery

CEBU, Philippines - Visual artist and U.P. Professor Dennis ‘Sio’ Montera presents his latest Solo exhibition of large scale abstract works at the Bluewater Gallery of Maribago Bluewater Beach Resort titled ABSTRAC[SIO]N II. Here, the artist metaphorically integrates artistic production with immediate experiences of his human existence. The works produce various aesthetic effects that are grounded from the language of the artist’s gestural movements and appropriations of emotion. The work’s’ are highly personal and is treated by the artist as symbolic imagery of his presence in this lifetime.

The artist’s canvasses in this exhibit are condensed into massive, encrusted color-filled paintings of either gestural lines or scratched surfaces. The lines created in his gestural works often resemble coagulated ink blots that glide from one corner to the other with total abandon and freedom. The scratched markings on the picture plane is the most recent reinvention of the artist’s style and the indentations on the surface of the paintings function like individual graffiti, the artist’s set of personal coded references inscribed on the work’s ground like hardened symbols or signs.

Sio Montera’s new works has taken distance from the linear logic of adults to arrive at the impulsive logic of children. The engaging visual field reassures flatness that is both direct and embracing typical of the spontaneity inherent in the spur-of-the-moment, scribble drawings. They represent for him an extraordinary mirror for multiplying or shattering imagery to reinvent or exorcize life. The exhibit will run from August 14 to September 11, 2009. For inquiries call 09173295626.