NEAR Manila Artist-in-Residence: Carlo Gabuco

I have gained significant insights about my personal views and experiences of the contemporary life upon fully engaging myself in art. I have occupied myself drawing tensions among issues affecting and influencing our everyday lives by synthesizing personal and popular icons, contemporary expressions and imagery in my paintings. Referencing on the visual imagery of today’s culture, I sought to play on the notion of how we are being shaped by modern society to a newly-designed passive way of living.