Kristoffer ardeña tarpaulin cracked painting

Kristoer Ardeùa Ghost Paintings (Cracked Category) series using tarpaulin (woven PVC fiber)

The tarpaulins used in the Ghost Painting (Cracked Category) series are a combination of tarpaulins directly taken from the streets in the Philippines, mainly in Negros island and also of images printed on tarpaulin.

View of the exhibition Geopoemas at 1333 MABINI Gallery in Manila (PH)

View of the exhibition Geopoemas at 1333 MABINI Gallery in Manila (PH)

View of the exhibition Geopoemas at 1333 MABINI Gallery in Manila (PH)

Original image underneath the painting is a printed image of my GLOBE mobile SIM card in the Philippines.

Ghost Painting (Cracked Category): Globe Acrylic on PVC coated fabric 168.5x135 cms 2018

In Ghost Painting (Cracked Category) Dumaguete Love Stories series I wanted to tackle the notion of desire, sexuality and it’s taboos not in a non-discursive aesthetic approach but in a seductive subliminal manner that challenges the perception of the viewer and places upon him to peel the underlying visual layers.

Ghost Painting (Cracked Category): Dumaguete Love Stories Series / Inhale, Exhale, Get Ready, Cum 241x212 cms 2018

Ghost Painting (Cracked Category): Dumaguete Love Stories Series / Rose Acrylic on PVC coated fabric 99x69 cms 2018

Ghost Painting (Cracked Category): Dumaguete Love Stories Series / Rachel Acrylic on PVC coated fabric 99x69 cms 2018

Ghost Painting (Cracked Category): A View of Apo Island from an Overpriced Lot for Sale to Foreigners in Dauin Acrylic on PVC coated fabric 302x210 cms 2018

Ghost Painting (Cracked Category): Panatang Makabayan / Philippine National Oath of Allegiance Acrylic on PVC coated fabric 163x133 cms 2018

Ghost Painting (Cracked Category): Bulgar November 8, 2017 Acrylic on PVC coated fabric 167.5x134.5 cms 2018

Ghost Painting (Cracked Category): 2016 Philippine Election Series) Thaddy Sayson Congressman II Acrylic on PVC coated fabric 49x64.3 cms 2017

"Ghost Painting (Cracked Category): Portrait of an Unknown Graduate from Dumaguete Acrylic on PVC-coated fabric 241x212 cms.

2018

Original image of the unknown graduate found while walking around the streets of downtown Dumaguete (PH)

Ghost Painting (Cracked Category): CDR-KING Wall Graffiti in Bacolod Acrylic on PVC-coated fabric 241x212 cms 2018

Original image underneath the painting.

Ghost Painting (Cracked Category): Eden Acrylic on PVC coated fabric 167x134.5 cms 2018

KRISTOFFER ARDEÑA / Artist / 1976 / Philippines Ardeña works with various formats ranging from readymades, photography, installation, sculpture, video, painting, performance and other projects.

He is the recipient of various awards and scholarships: a full undergraduate scholarship at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, California (USA), scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Culture from Luxembourg, the Academy in Rome award and the Cajamadrid Generaciones in Spain.

He has done projects at: Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico, Selesar Sunaryo Art Space, Ruang Mes56 and Cemeti Art House (Indonesia), Vargas Museum and the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila (Philippines), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Museum (Madrid), La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (Murcia), Spain.

He has also participated in various collective projects, among them the 3rd Bucharest Biennale (Romania), 3rd Guangzhou Triennale (China), Konstholl C in Stockholm (Sweden), Caixa Forum in Barcelona and La Casa Encendida in Madrid, MUSAC in León (Spain), Casino Forum d’Art Contemporain (Luxembourg), Apexart in New York (USA), Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellin (Colombia).