Emerging from an archipelago so textured in its cultural relations and a country that was successively colonized three times, Santiago Bose's practice confronts strata of citations that can only be dense, teeming, and layered. He renders this density with whimsy and urgency as he disfigures painting, mixes media, stains surfaces, claims everyday objects, purloins images, and ventures into installations and performances that are at once heady and practical in their activation of local materials and historical references.
ArtAsiaPacific Foundation presents Santiago Bose Painter, Magician, which features an in-depth essay on the grandfather of Filipino art by curator, art historian, and critic Patrick Flores.
