Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Makati City

ABOUT THE WORK

Drawing upon a variety of images and techniques associated with the Western Classical tradition, Mallari seeks to transform the metaphysics of the social condition into a tangible and concrete product. His works deconstruct our reality as a reality formed and governed by images and symbols. In this untitled piece, Mallari layers his ghost-like rendering of classical figures with non-traditional media. This effectively captures the work in medias res, immortalizing not only the work itself, but its conceptualization and eventual degradation through the visual cues present within the work. Such a technique also allows Mallari to capture the fleeting Spatio-temporal aspect of his works by offering creative inference informed by nuanced and historical understanding.