In Contemporary Philippine Art, there have been very few names that have been able to establish themselves on an international level. Among the most popular of them today is Marina Cruz. Marina Cruz has featured an assortment of styles over her years of progression and evolution; notably her hyperrealist renditions of blouses and dresses with stitches, her perspective renditions of indoor spaces, even her darker, more impressionistic works. Retrieving and reshaping memories and experiences of home are at the heart of Marina Cruz’s earlier works. Cruz utilizes the idea of home as a universal starting point in her exploration of the human psyche and its relationship with the material world. The haunting work eminently succeeds as almost being sculptural because it possesses an aura of presence despite the flatness of both the canvas and Cruz’s components. The figure radiates its own energies, as it exposes an intense communion with the surrounding space. The artist’s rougher visual elements mimic the look and feel of old objects and personal keepsakes, a technique that brings about nostalgia and longing. Cruz’s piece effectively operates at a deeply emotional level in which its aesthetic properties merely act as a starting point into a uniquely engaging experience.
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Marina Cruz (b. 1982)
Where the Wild Things Are
signed and dated 2009 (lower right)
oil on canvas
48” x 36” (122 cm x 91 cm)
SOLD: PHP 327,040
Provenance: Provenance:
Private collection, Makati City