Ronald Ventura
fiberglass resin and polyurethane paint
27 x 34 x 10 in. (68.6 x 86.4 x 25.4 cm)
fiberglass resin and polyurethane paint
39 x 36 x 19 in. (99.1 x 99.4 x 48.3 cm)
fiberglass resin and polyurethane paint
34 ½ x 22 x 18 in. (87.6 x 55.9 x 45.7 cm)
fiberglass resin and polyurethane paint
31 x 33 x 17 in. (78.7 x 83.8 x 43.2 cm)
fiberglass resin and polyurethane paint
20 x 25 x 12 in. (50.8 x 63.5 x 30.5 cm)
oil on canvas, nine panels
overall dimensions approx. 46 x 53 in. (116.8 x 134.6 cm)
fiberglass resin and polyurethane paint
23 x 20 x 7 in. (58.4 x 50.8 x 17.8 cm)
fiberglass resin and polyurethane paint
24 x 11 ½ x 11 in. (61 x 29.2 x 27.9 cm)
fiberglass resin and polyurethane paint
42 x 11 ½ x 12 in. (106.7 x 29.2 x 30.5 cm)
fiberglass resin and polyurethane paint
21 x 13 ½ x 5 in. (53.3 x 34.3 x 12.7 cm)
fiberglass resin and polyurethane paint
17 x 19 x 4 in. (43.2 x 48.3 x 10.2 cm)
fiberglass resin and polyurethane paint
Dimensions Variable (Approximately 6 - 14 IN.)
"Surreal Versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art" exhibition, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain
fiberglass resin and polyurethane paint
141 3/4 x 43 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (360 x 110 x 70 cm)
"A Duad in Play," LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
Oil on canvas
72 x 144 in. (183 x 366 cm )
Fiberglass Resin, Acrylic Polyurethane Paint
Dimensions Variable (Approximately 10.5 - 16 IN.)
Fiberglass Resin, Acrylic Polyurethane Paint
Dimensions Variable (Approximately 10 - 14 IN.)
fiberglass Resin, Acrylic Polyurethane Paint
dimensions Variable (Approximately 8 - 12 IN.)
fiberglass Resin, Acrylic Polyurethane Paint
dimensions Variable (Approximately 8 - 12 IN.)
Fiberglass Resin, Acrylic Polyurethane Paint
dimensions Variable (Approximately 8 - 12 IN.)
fiberglass Resin, Acrylic Polyurethane Paint
dimensions Variable (Approximately 8 - 12 IN.)
Fiberglass Resin, Acrylic Polyurethane Paint
Dimensions Variable (Approximately 8 - 12 IN.)
Dimensions Variable
dimensions Variable
One of the most highly acclaimed contemporary artists from the Philippines, Ronald Ventura has garnered enormous international attention in recent years. He is noted for paintings featuring complex layering, combining images and styles raging from hyperrealism to cartoons and graffiti — as well as for a significant body of sculptural work.
Ventura now ranks among the leading artists of his generation in Southeast Asia. He presented his first US solo exhibition, Metaphysics of Skin, at Tyler Rollins Fine Art in September and October 2009. His much-anticipated second solo show with our gallery, A Thousand Islands, recently took place (September 8 to October 22, 2011).
Ventura’s work was featured in a groundbreaking solo exhibition, Mapping the Corporeal, at the National University of Singapore Museum in 2008. He was a participating artist in the 2009 Prague Biennale and was also featured in a solo exhibition that year at the Akili Museum of Art in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2010, he was part of a two-man exhibition, A Duad in Play, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore. Also in 2010, his work was seen in the Nanjing Biennale and in a solo exhibition in Milan. His work is currently featured in the group exhibition, Surreal Versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art, (October 6, 2011 – January 8, 2012) at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain.
Ventura takes the layering process in his work as a metaphor for the multifaceted national identity of the Philippines. Over the centuries, the profound influences of various occupying powers – Spain, Japan, and the United States – along with the underlying indigenous culture, have produced a complex and at times uneasy sense of identity. Ventura explores this historical and psychic phenomenon through a dialogue of images evoking East and West, high and low, old and young – seen, for example, in allusions to Old Master paintings or Japanese and American cartoons. He draws our attention to the “second skin” of cultural signifiers that each person carries with him, however unwittingly. Ventura views skin as an expressive surface – written on with tattoos, concealed under layers of imagery, or exploding outwards to reveal an inner world of fantasy and conflict.
CATALOGUE ESSAY
Please click here to view the exhibition catalogue essay for A Thousand Islands.
CATALOGUE ESSAY
Please click here to view the exhibition catalogue essay for Metaphysics of Skin.
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