Cocoi Base goes solo for the first time
with the exhibit “Structures and Experience”, which opened on September 16 at
the Gateway Gallery Studio. It will run for two weeks until September 30, 2023.
Cocoi Base is an architect and a
self-trained artist who frequently collaborates with The Authenticity Zero
Collective. His background in arts started in 2015 when he joined a group
exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in a show entitled
“Oxymoron of Patterns”.
His most recent invitation was to
participate in Art Anton Gallery’s group show titled “As Infinite as the
Multitude of Visual Variables” held last April 2023. The works that will be
featured in this first solo exhibit can be traced back to his exploration of
basic geometries and colors with pen on paper in 2018.
Later on, he ventured into mixed media
(balsa wood, readymade objects, 3D printed entourages, magazines, etc.). He now
uses mostly acrylic on canvas. Previously, his canvases wouldn’t go beyond
standard sizes. At present, he uses panel-sized pieces, which can easily occupy
a wall in a room. He fills these panels with details that are a far cry from
his usual geometric patterns
This first solo exhibition encapsulates
Cocoi’s medium change and compositional maturity while maintaining the
intersection of his architectural foundations with visual art. The artworks
featured are a culmination of separate “phases” of his artistic trajectory
which also exemplify his push and pull between simplicity and complexity, and
the objective world and non-representation.
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