Self portrait by jigger cruz meaning
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Jigger Cruz
Filipino painter
Jigger Cruz (born September 12, 1984) is a Filipino painter.[1][2]
Early life and education
Cruz was born on September 12, 1984, in Malabon City in Metro Manila. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Far Eastern University. He took courses at the De La Salle College of Saint Benilde before pursuing a full-time career as a painter.[3][4][5]
Career
Cruz works in both figure and abstraction in his paintings.[6] He rose to prominence through a series of works that copied paintings by European and Filipino masters covered with gaudy colors of oil paint directly squeezed from the tube or through a cake piping. Before regular showings in art galleries and museums, Cruz almost gave up painting until he took up an apprenticeship under Filipino painter Manuel Ocampo in 2011. Since then, he has been known to be among the Philippine's under-thirty art superstars who rose to prominence since 2009 through unprecedented sales and auction records and exposure in internatio
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(b. 1984, Manila, Philippines)
Jigger Cruz explores the primitive memory of the figurative in contemporary painting. The paintings rework many of the stylistic quirks and formal concerns of classical painting, employing their elemental composition and approximating their processes. In pursuit of the idea of painting as installation, he often exposes the canvas stretcher bars and reveals all surfaces, pleasing or not, in the final artworks.
Cruz’s primary artistic approach exists in ideas of defacement and vandalisation. The traditionally painted landscapes that are visible underneath his thick layers of impasto oil and spray paint give the impression of profound wreckage. Given the high level of value that society places on traditional, realistic images, his work is known to stir feelings of both discomfort and freedom. His paintings then become assemblages of recognisable objects and intricate shapes that both entangle and connect: a visual paradox of disruption and harmony.
In another distinct series of works, Cruz deviates from his former method of painting ov
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Jigger Cruz
JIGGER CRUZ
SUBTRACTION PARADISE
June 4 - August 29, 2015
Opening | Wednesday | June 3, 2015 from 6 - 9pm | at ARNDT Berlin
An ARTIST TALK in English will be held in conversation with Uta Grosenick (Distanz Verlag), Christopher Moore (Randian Online) and Matthias Arndt on the occasion of the opening at 7 pm. The evening will also include a BOOK LAUNCH for Jigger Cruz's new book published by DISTANZ Verlag. For full details visit the publications page HERE.
ARNDT Berlin is pleased to present its first solo exhibition by Jigger Cruz. An encounter with a Jigger Cruz painting inexorably signifies an encounter with artifice. Cruz’s works convey an astute, circumventing ploy aimed at redefining ideas surrounding painting while contesting the definition of the medium. Painting as object is subject to critical analysis, and is at the same time laden with critical ideas. It therefore becomes both tool and vessel for criticality, especially in Cruz’s works, whose paintings achieve the status of both medium and object: a
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