May 17 to June 4, 2009
Gray Wall, Kaida Gallery
2nd Floor, GFO Building, 122 Kamuning Road,
Diliman, Quezon City
tel. 414-4777
Seeing Joselito Jandayan's works up close for the first time at the opening of "Snippets," I couldn't help but be disturbed at once by its overall melancholic mood, made palpable by the distortion of the figures (one that vividly recalls for the viewers the works of Elmer Borlongan executed in the same manner: e.g "Bay Side," 1991, oil on canvas). For a moment, I was even afraid that both the male and female figures by the railroad would drip slowly out of the canvas and onto the floor. I took longer looking at a painting of a boy, and a girl standing side by side, with the girl's left eye hollowed out, and through which viewers could see a blue sky. The boy's left arm had seemed to be grossly dislocated, and the boy seemingly oblivious to the situation. This being the fourth solo exhibit of Jandayan, I went home that night and search through google for Jandayan's past works. I came upon half-faced figures that were giraffe-like in form, and billowed half-heartedly over the canvas, glassy one-eyed figures that seemed to have consciously put their faces too close to the glass frame ("Mr. Dimakabenta," "The Farthest I've Been," "After the First Time," etc.), wary like deers sensing troubles that they could not see, yet willfully staying put, almost desperately wishing for someone or something from the other side to crash through.
Joselito Jandayan (born in Zamora Paco, Manila in 1973) is also a graduate of the Technological University of the Philippines with a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts, majoring in Advertising in 1997.
Before being swallowed up completely by the corporate world (working as a Graphic designer and a freelance digital illustrator for a website company), he stopped working and devoted his time painting full time.
Exhibit history (solo):
“Solo Plight”- 1st solo exhibit held at Nineveh Artspace in Sta Cruz, Laguna Philippines - November 25, 2007
“Kinarir” -2nd solo exhibit held at Kaida gallery in Kamuning, Quezon City Philippines - May 11, 2008
“Awakened Allegory” - 3rd solo exhibit held at Niniveh Art Space in Sta. Cruz, Laguna – October 26 to November 19, 2008
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