ABOUT THE WORK

Carlo Angelo Saavedra, a contemporary Filipino painter of near abstracts and semi-figurations, evokes the redemptive and ephemeral quality of dauntless decay. Regenerate showcases the artist’s unique visual language where the watery fluid and overwhelming gestures of his brushworks give way to the vivacity and vitality of living color, often from deep within the recesses of the painterly turmoil below. Saavedra’s work harkens back to the paintings of the 18th century Romantics whose canvases are symbolic of the totality of nature as a form of noumenal salvation. Saavedra’s unique style is full of such Romantic fury, unopposed in its freedom and idealism, yet he also hinges in calm and serene. In the purest sense, his work is a return towards the dialectical nature of art and its environment.