http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/ "SOME PAINTINGS ARE NOT MEANT TO BE BEAUTIFUL" Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:25:16 -0000 Wed, 18 May 2011 10:39:19 -0000 http://multiply.com/mu/barrioquinto/logo http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/ 100 100 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/118/ION_art_gallery Hungry for More Exhibiting Artists: Aiman Hakim, Boo Sze Yang, Hong Sek Chern, Lu Yifei, Roedy Mardijanto, TR853-1 (TraseOne), Wong Shih Yaw, Yeo Siak Goon, Andre Tan, Andres Barrioquinto, Jaypee Samson, Josue Mangrobang Jr., Malyn Bonayog, Michael Cacnio, Kris Soguilon, Norman Dreo, Paul Koh, Reynold Dela Cruz, Alex Kataras, Max Balatbat, Justin Lee, Renato Guerrero Habulan, John Paul Antido, Dennis Fortozo, Edrick Daniel, Martin Loh, Chng Seok Tin, Ye Ruoshi 叶若诗, Michael Lee, Reynaldo Samson Jr., Chua Chon Hee, Kamal Dollah Venue: ION Art Gallery > venue details Dates: 12 May 2011 - 23 May 2011 "Please, sir, I want some more." - Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens Humans are beings of wants and desires. Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs postulated that human motivation is driven by unsatisfied needs – once a need is mostly satisfied, it will cease to motivate and the next higher need will take its place. We first satisfy lower-order needs such as food, sleep and warmth, then pro... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/118/ION_art_gallery Wed, 18 May 2011 10:39:19 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/19 Young Filipinos top guns at Sotheby’s by Cesar Barrioquinto THE exciting new development in the Southeast Asian art scene is the handful of young Filipino painters who are showing up the old masters—both living and departed—in the fiercely competitive auction block. Among the handful whose stars have made it to the region’s firmament are Ronald Ventura, Andres Barrioquinto and Jon Jaylo, and they made it by coming up with fresh ideas pegged on universal themes. Ventura, 37, is the current leader of the pack, producing pieces that amaze with the furious bidding they attract and the prices they draw. His Grayhound (5ft by 15ft), the star of Sotheby’s auction of Southeast Asian art in Hong Kong on April 4, fetched HK$8.4 million (P46.2 million), eclipsing the HK$2.5 million that his entry had attracted in Sotheby’s October 2010 auction. It set a world record for any contemporary Southeast Asian painting at auction and for Ventura, and beat the works of such established masters as F... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/19 Sun, 1 May 2011 04:23:27 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/18 <a href="http://uk.artsgrantsfinder.com/arts-news/sothebys-sales-of-modern-and-contemporary-southeast-asian-paintings-totals-us13-8-million/">http://uk.artsgrantsfinder.com/arts-news/sothebys-sales-of-modern-and-contemporary-southeast-asian-paintings-totals-us13-8-million/</a> http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/18 Sun, 1 May 2011 04:17:38 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/117/HongkongSothebys Filipino artists Ronald Ventura, Andres Barrioquinto and Jon Jaylo stole the thunder from other Asian artists in the recently concluded Sotheby’s Spring 2011 sale of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings in Hong Kong. Total sales fetched a stunning HK$108 million / US$13.8 million, tripling pre-sale estimates. The star of the auction was the world record sale for any Contemporary Southeast Asian Painting at auction and for the artist Ronald Ventura. The thought-provoking piece – Grayground by the Filipino artist sold for HK$8.4 million / US$1.1 million. There was strong interest in important and top quality artworks, proved by active participation in the room and over the phone throughout the sale, which led to numerous artist records, including Hendra Gunawan, Andres Barrioquinto, Samsul Arifin, Nguyen Gia Tri and Indieguerillas. MOK Kim Chuan, Sotheby’s Head of Southeast Asian Paintings said, “Today’s total of HK$108 million set a record for a sale of Southeast Asian ... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/117/HongkongSothebys Sun, 1 May 2011 04:04:56 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/116/TOP_10 <a href="http://www.spot.ph/top-list/47019/top-10-most-successful-visual-artists-in-manila">http://www.spot.ph/top-list/47019/top-10-most-successful-visual-artists-in-manila</a> http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/116/TOP_10 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:00:20 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/17 Silya Elektrika : Interview with Andres Barrioquinto By Bosyo Andres Barrioquinto is part of the Tres Acidos painter group along with Ronald Ventura, Joel Mendez, Kiko Escora and Butch Payawal. Their paintings are often haunting, static representational paintings powered by angst. They seem to draw inspiration as much from "Sandman" comic book covers as they do from western surrealist masters such as Edward Munch. Currently they have an exhibit entitled "Animal". (Aptly enough, the guest of horror and subject for some of the paintings is convicted criminal and spouse to deposed dictator Imelda Marcos. Hayop talaga siya, kahayupan ang asal.) We caught up with Andres Barrioquinto as they were setting-up for the exhibit... How would you describe your art? Andres: Isolation. Dark figures. Sa lahat ng paintings mo or just this partcular series? Andres: Almost sa lahat. Puro isang tao lang ang linalagay ko sa canvas. Kapag dalawa may ibig pagsabihin na yan... Ano... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/17 Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:23:54 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/114/SKULLS_AND_BUTTERFLIES Young artists upstage masters SOTHEBY’S auction of Southeast Asian paintings in Hong Kong on Monday saw 37-year-old Ronald Ventura upstaging national artists Vicente Manansala and Fernando Amorsolo and even Spanish-era master Felix Martinez. According to Sotheby’s, Ventura’s freshly-done work—Natural-Lies—spurred over 30 furious bids from not less than five bidders, and eventually fetched HK$2.54 million (about P14.35 million), over 14 times its low estimate. Amorsolo’s “Workers in the Field,” a 1926 oil on canvas long hidden from public view, sold for HK$1.16 million (about P6.55 million). Two other Amorsolos, including the half-nude “Dalagang Filipina,” fetched lower at HK$800,000 and HK$500,000, respectively. Another younger artist, Andres Barrioquinto, better known in the Manila Standard as the son of editor Cesar Barrioquinto, set a record for his work when his lone entry, “Skulls and Butterflies, fetched HK$620,000, over 15 times the initial low estimate of HK$40,000 given ... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/114/SKULLS_AND_BUTTERFLIES Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:39:36 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/113/THE_SQUALOR_OF_THE_MIND FLOWERS AND FAILED OBSCURITIES WORDS BY DAVE LOCK “Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. “ -Oscar Wilde Andres Barrioquinto probes deep into the darker confines of human emotion and defines the grim little secrets that lie buried beneath a simple, naïve smile. It’s definitely the first time in his history as a painter that Barrioquinto depicts portraitures in gentle smirks and grins. And ironically, being once dubbed by art critics as the new darkman of Philippine art, this is also an initial instance that the artist drowns his portrayed figures with an overflow of flowers and mixed patterns. Barrioquinto explains a new way of depicting what is dark. It’s more of a psychological feeling, rather than a visual representation of terror. He further adds that the cascade of colors and flowers are fully intentional, because he somehow wants to present an experimental view of fear to his audience, something that’s far more subtle than decapitated heads and extreme ... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/113/THE_SQUALOR_OF_THE_MIND Sun, 3 Oct 2010 06:52:06 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/111/FAITH_AND_REASON <a href="http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/barrioquinto/?action=view&amp;current=securedownload-2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/barrioquinto/securedownload-2.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/111/FAITH_AND_REASON Mon, 10 May 2010 08:47:11 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/110/CONTEMPORARY_ART_PHILIPPINES <a href="http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/barrioquinto/?action=view&amp;current=scan1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/barrioquinto/scan1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> Where were you born? I was born here in Manila, but we kept on switching residencies due to the nature of my father’s job. He was a writer/editor. I spent my teenage years in Hong Kong, studying at Royden House School. Then I went back here in Manila to get my college education. Was there any sense of being an outsider or of being displaced while you were living in Hong Kong? During those times, when I was growing up, there was discrimination. I’ve had consistent fights with this Chinese gang that I would encounter every now and then in the arcade. My teenage life was very dark, and so are my experiences. The past is a very strange place. Whose works do you admire, and whose art do you feel greatly informs yours? Locally, I admire Manuel Ocampo, Ronald Ventura, Geraldine Javier, Marcel Antonio, Jojo Legazpi, and Charlie Co. As for the foreign influences, they are Balthus, Frida Kahlo, Lucian Freud, Basquiat, James Ensor, and Henri Rousseau. What elem... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/110/CONTEMPORARY_ART_PHILIPPINES Sun, 2 May 2010 13:32:11 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/109/WEST_GALLERYART_IN_THE_PARK works on http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/109/WEST_GALLERYART_IN_THE_PARK Mon, 1 Mar 2010 03:38:25 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/108/BLACK_TENDENCIES UTTERLY ART cordially invites you to     Black Tendencies by ANDRES BARRIOQUINTO words and poems by DAVE LOCK     TUESDAY 2nd March 2010 7pm Utterly Art Exhibition Space (diagonally opposite the Sri Mariamman Temple, Pagoda St Exit) 229A South Bridge Road (2nd Level) Singapore 058778 Call Keng Hock for appointments Tel: 6226 2605 or 94872006 E-mail: utterlyart@pacific.net.sg Mon-Sat 12 noon - 8 pm   Sun 12 noon - 5.30 pm The exhibition runs to SUNDAY 14th Mar 2010.     About the exhibition: In his most recent collection of eerie, patterned portraitures, Andres Barrioquinto suggests the alternate possibilities of things, and the brittle, fragile fulcrum that lies between the extreme polarities of good and evil. His paintings reflect the presence of tendencies, as a clean, white canvas has a natural inclination to turn black with just a few unconscious strokes of an artist’s restless brush. According to the artist, these self-contained imageries ... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/108/BLACK_TENDENCIES Mon, 1 Mar 2010 02:20:31 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/107/BLANCMANILA_PENINSULA <a href="http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/barrioquinto/?action=view&amp;current=invite1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/barrioquinto/invite1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> blanc peninsula manila will open with an inaugural exhibition entitled "These Are Days" on Wednesday, February 17 from 5PM until 8PM. blanc peninsula manila is located at The Peninsula Manila G/F Shops 8 and 9 Ayala Avenue cor Makati Avenue, Makati City. The exhibition will run until March 12, 2010. for more information please visit www.blanc.ph call/sms +63920.9276436 "These Are Days" will feature the works of Allan Balisi Andres Barrioquinto Jonathan Ching Mariano Ching Melvin Culaba Eugene Jarque Geraldine Javier Lao Lianben Lynyrd Paras Arturo Sanchez Yasmin Sison Mac Valdezco Ronald http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/107/BLANCMANILA_PENINSULA Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:02:26 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/journal/item/2/NOTICE_TO_THE_PUBLIC <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px Helvetica;">Andres Barrioquinto would like to clear that he is not affiliated, nor exclusive, or an owner of any gallery here in the Philippines.&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px Helvetica;min-height: 14.0px;"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px Helvetica;">The artist will be having two one-man shows on 2010 here in the Philippines, namely at <b>West Gallery</b> and <b>Blanc art space</b>. His works would hereby be available there, and <i>other</i> galleries who claim that he would be having shows under their supervision is therefore false and counterfactual.&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px Helvetica;min-height: 14.0px;"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font: 12.0px Helvetica;">For any interest or inquiry please check http://westgallery.org/ or http://www.blanc.ph/index.php</p> http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/journal/item/2/NOTICE_TO_THE_PUBLIC Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:07:00 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/calendar/item/10022/BLACK_TENDENCIES_UTTERLY_ART_GALLERY Black Tendencies In his most recent collection of eerie, patterned portraitures, Andres Barrioquinto transcends possibilities, and the fragile fulcrum that lies between good and evil. His paintings mirror the presence of tendencies, as a clean, white canvas can turn black within a few strokes of an artist’s brush. According to the artist, these self-contained imageries depict “dark” people living in a blissful, colorful world, a surreal paradise of falling flower petals and drifting kaleidoscope butterflies. They are more like early repentant sinners who try to live against the temptations of both flesh and soul. Barrioquinto explains that the figures were intentionally depicted in monochrome to emphasize the emptiness of the soul, or perhaps their hopeless longing to have one. Around these characters is an explosion of decorative fragments and screaming colors. Flowers, birds, black trees with golden leaves, cats, butterflies—everything cries in a... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/calendar/item/10022/BLACK_TENDENCIES_UTTERLY_ART_GALLERY Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:04:21 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/106/ART2HEART <a href="http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/barrioquinto/?action=view&amp;current=securedownload-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/barrioquinto/securedownload-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> Featured artists: Manny Garibay, Lynyrd Paras, Mark Andy Garcia, Ramon Orlina, Gabby Barredo, Ang Kiukok, Mark Justiniani, Joy Mallari, Andres Barrioquinto, Geraldine Javier, Luis Lorenzana, Jon Jaylo, Lirio Salvador, CJ Tañedo, Marina Cruz, Rodel Tapaya, Pam-Yan Santos, John Santos, Yasmin Sison, Mariano Ching, Jonathan Ching, Winner Jumalon, Tatong Torres, Alex Roxas, Froilan Calayag, Roma Valles, Sandra Gfeller, Dina Gadia, Ronald Ventura, Tina Fernandez, Joel Alonday, Wire Tuazon, Keiye Miranda, Elmer Borlongan, Plet Bolipata, Joven Mansit, Jaypee Samson, Ferdie Montemayor, Marcel Antonio, John Paul Antido. Guerrero Habulan, Igan d’Bayan, Alfredo Esquillo, Anthony Palomo, Alfredo Villaruel, Costantino Zicarelli, Andoi Solon, Kiko Escora and Frederick Sausa. Please join us in helping raise funds for victims of Typhoon Ondoy in Art 2 Heart, an Auction and Exhibit of artworks by the country's hottest contemporary artists. The auction will be held at the Chief Justice Claudio... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/106/ART2HEART Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:25:47 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/104/OPENING_ http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/104/OPENING_ Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:23:15 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/16 I had always been drawn to Andres Barrioquinto’s faces, especially the monochromatic ones of recent history, rendered almost flat, in tones of blue. They exhibit horrified expressions, quite compelling, as they stare out from empty sockets. He’d paint them alongside cubist patterns, remnants of an earlier series that had "Realms Of The Senses", detail become his signature. This past year, though, Andy’s paintings took on a different style. To be honest, I did not really enjoy the purely photorealstic direction his narratives had shifted to. They felt a little too familiar. We’ve seen them before from others. Andres Barrioquinto, "Eden" In this show, The Gods of Small Things, Andy experiments yet again. I think he’s produced his best work yet. He turns to Japanese paper prints, silk screened or stenciled Chiyogami and Katazome-shi. He takes patterns based on traditional kimono designs, their bright colors and images from nature, and applies them in Andres Barrioquinto,... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/16 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:14:26 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/15 18th Moon ABOUT| ARCHIVES| RSS FEED ANDRES BARRIOQUINTO, ARUNDHATI ROY, BLANC GALLERY MAKATI, JAPANESE PRINTS, PHILIPPINE ART, PORTRAITS, THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS Oddity of small things In Art on October 15, 2009 at 10:51 am Andres Barrioquinto The Gods of Small Things at the Blanc Gallery in Makati. All photos courtesy of Blanc Gallery In Andres Barrioquinto’s latest one-man show at Blanc Gallery (Shaw Blvd., Mandaluyong City, Philippines), The God of Small Things (17 October to November 7), portraiture merges with emblematic Japanese print motifs, the aesthetic blends with emotional states, and the surface is but an alluring mask that conceals a core of horror. This is art in extremis, seductive and yet well-within the province and territory of nihilistic traditions. Barrioquinto is dubbed by Philippine art critics as a “master of the dark and mysterious.” When I saw Barrioquinto’s “A Dreaded Sunny Day” at West Gallery (Quezon City) in 2002, I was mesmerised by the ... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/15 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:08:09 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/14 Andres Barrioquinto: Ode to the Dark and Deviant By PAM BROOKE A. CASIN August 2, 2009, 2:46pm THE MANILA BULLETIN When you read between the daring strokes and explosive hues, sometimes grotesque and always shocking imagery found in Andres Barrioquinto’s artworks, you’d most likely think Barrioquinto as the brooding, devil-may-care, and mercurial artist who is as threatening as the classmate who bullied you to no end back in high school or the intense classmate who kept only to himself—the one who scribbled desperate song lyrics in his black composition notebooks and drew cult-like and macabre images that scare the hell out of you. Make no mistake, though, because the artist is neither. Well, he may have sported black from head to toe and long locks known only to rockers and guitar gods back in the day but you can hardly consider him exuding a death-like and renegade aura nowadays. He has mellowed down of late and has come to terms with himself, realizing that once time has ri... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/14 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:47:40 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/100/THE_GODS_OF_SMALL_THINGS <a href="http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/barrioquinto/?action=view&amp;current=invite-email.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/barrioquinto/invite-email.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> THE GODS OF SMALL THINGS by Dave Lock Currently dubbed as the master of the dark and the mysterious by contemporary art critics, Andres Barrioquinto traverses deep into the soul of asian art and focuses on the detailed, colorful approach of early Japanese prints for his new set of works. And as Japanese art has often been characterized with its unique harmonizing of polarities, Barrioquinto creates a dichotomy of his own through such portraitures of gloom and paranoia narrated in a calm, relaxing manner. “Disorders make a person beautiful. Because when you have are not perfect, that’s when you strive to be. So basically, defect and beauty comes close hand in hand. And sometimes a dent could even emphasize the beauty of something.” Barrioquinto explains. In this show, the artist has also applied a detailed layering of patterns, so as to further emphasize the repetitive, machinated feel of contemporary prints. According to the artist, this show is definitely different from h... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/100/THE_GODS_OF_SMALL_THINGS Mon, 5 Oct 2009 03:31:46 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/13 <a href="http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/barrioquinto/?action=view&amp;current=Thenextbigthing1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/barrioquinto/Thenextbigthing1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> <a href="http://s297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/barrioquinto/?action=view&amp;current=ThenextbigthingB-2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm207/barrioquinto/ThenextbigthingB-2.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/13 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:42:55 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/12 In his upcoming exhibition, Andres Barrioquinto traverses deep into the soul of asian art and focuses on the detailed, colorful approach of early Japanese prints. And as Japanese art has been characterized within it’s unique harmonizing of polarities, Barrioquinto creates a dichotomy of his own through such portraitures of pain and suffering that he chose to narrate in a calm, relaxing manner. “Disorders make a person beautiful. Because when you have are not perfect, that’s when you strive to be. So basically, defect and beauty comes close hand in hand. And sometimes a dent could even emphasize the beauty of something.” Barrioquinto explains. http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/reviews/item/12 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:24:01 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/calendar/item/10021/THE_GODS_OF_SMALL_THINGS one man show at BLANC shaw http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/calendar/item/10021/THE_GODS_OF_SMALL_THINGS Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:35:01 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/calendar/item/10020/IDLE_MINDS GROUP SHOW AT WEST GALLERY Andres Barrioquinto CJ Tanedo Jon Jaylo Tyago http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/calendar/item/10020/IDLE_MINDS Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:37:09 -0000 http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/89/DOLORES Andres Barrioquinto DOLORES THURSDAY 21st MAY 2009 7 pm Utterly Art Exhibition Space (diagonally opposite the Sri Mariamman Temple, Pagoda St Exit) 229A South Bridge Road (2nd Level) Singapore 058778 Tel: 6226 2605 E-mail: utterlyart@pacific.net.sg Mon-Sat 12 noon - 8 pm Sun 12 noon - 5.30 pm The exhibition runs to SUNDAY 31st MAY 2009 . Do⋅lo⋅res [duh-lawr-is, -lohr-] a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “sorrows.” It is usually applied to contexts of mental pain and suffering.

This exhibition which features the moody portraitures of Andres Barrioqunto presents a collection of different women, depicted in either a vast landscape or a lively kaleidoscopic bed of flowers. According to the artist, the placement of his figures in such vast and remote scenery creates a certain feeling of isolation and loneliness. “I want to emphasize or somehow portray the effects of men, or maybe the backwash of life in general towards women.” Barrioqu... http://barrioquinto.multiply.com/photos/album/89/DOLORES Fri, 8 May 2009 17:01:41 -0000