Exhibitions

The intrepid visual artist Jomar Delluba showcases his stylistic range “Homage” this April 2018 at the Megamall Art Center. Presented by modern and contemporary art gallery Galerie Joaquin, Delluba once again delights art aficionados with his trademark naïf-like doll-children set in fantastic and humorous locales.

From his roots in Pangil, Laguna, Delluba has established a steadfast collector base with his skillfully executed pop surrealist style. The artist’s ventures into the realms of realism and abstraction have served to add to his visual vocabulary and eclectic style. Informed by lowbrow and populist predecessors, as well as his mentor Filipino surrealist Jerry Morada, Delluba deftly juggles humor and austerity, skill and levity, canon and kitsch, to subvert the art aficionados’ demand for consistent novelty. With three solo exhibits since 2014, and international clientele in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong, Delluba has risen to prominence with a diverse style and evolutionary vision.

In “Homage,” Delluba casts his doll-characters in canonical Western masterpieces, feeding their inner lives with another layer of referential rebellion. His tributes to Raphael, Munch, Da Vinci, Magritte, Leighton, among others, call to the fore both the artist and the viewers’ knowledge of and complicity in the telling and retelling of particular popular art histories, while subtly subverting the standard with his not-quite-child protagonists. Unapologetically, both Delluba and his child actors relive iconic scenes with clever mischievous twists.

Collected from over a two-year period, Jomar Delluba’s solo exhibit demonstrate the diversity of his style, as well as the versatility of his concepts. More than being children or dolls, his personages carry implications of impeccability, but also worldliness that allows faceted projections of the viewers’ self. He injects humor into our lenses, disarming the hierarchies that art has always tried to supersede. By reversing expectations with playful wit, Delluba creates relatable works of art that contain worlds of stories. “Homage,” will be exhibited at the Art Center on the 4th Floor of SM Megamall Building A from the 14th to the 25th of April, 2018. The Artist’s Reception will be held on April 18, Wednesday, at 6:00 PM. For inquiries, get in touch with Galerie Joaquin at (+632) 7239418 or email info@galeriejoaquin.com.