Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

          Distancing from his brothers Ronald and Olan Ventura, Manok Ventura has delved in and  employed a more expressionistic idiom in his works, as though, in the fury of his strokes, he wanted to capture the latent energy of the moment.  In this abstract piece, Ventura presents a world replete with tears, disintegration, and luminous surface.  With the deft juxtaposition of textures, the viewer gleans surface, even depth. While, the non-objective nature of the work is assertive, it evokes visions of a night-drenched forest or the natural cathedral of a cave with its formation of stalactites and stalagmites. It is a work that, in its opacity and reverberations, captivates and enthralls.