BLINDSPOT
Blind New Works
by: Argie Bandoy
October 25 - November 30, 2008
In his latest exhibition, Blind New Works, Argie
Bandoy abandons the confines of mimetic
representation and iconic references and
engages in the pleasures and anxieties of
painting stripped down to its most basic means.
Rather than painting pictures of the world,
Bandoy creates paintings that are worlds in
themselves. It is a re-affirmation of painting as
a visual construction that goes beyond simple
illustration. By calling them ‘blind’, he purposely
leads us to the unfathomable, the invisible and
the unknowable in art.
Some works are seemingly pure abstraction
with color and texture as their dominant
elements. While they may seem like aggressive
outbursts of undefined expression, they are
also somber reflections on specific material,
process and form. There is deliberate precision,
yet it does not point to anything except to itself.
The works are somehow caught in between
distinction and the intangible. There is no
attempt to represent an illusion, perhaps only
the elusive.
Even in the work Built By The Housemartins,
Destroyed By The Housemaster, wherein the
image is more familiar, somehow we are still
caught in the shadows. Like the walls depicted
in the painting, it is not clear whether they are
finished, completely built or abandoned and in
ruin. The echoing pattern of the bricks
encloses, and at the same time, dissipates into
the background. Instead of marking
boundaries, they present a loose intersection of
color, shape and line that can unravel at any
moment.
Bandoy also incorporates texts such as Deep
Sea Angler, Ultimo Mondo Cannibal,
Sadomasochistic, and Forget Painting Lets
Party, but instead of serving as explanations,
these words are more utilized as appendages, a
layer among many. They need not directly mo_space.
relate to the image, nor make any sense, and it Subject: the activation of
is in this dysfunction wherein they achieve their artistic ideas both current
and crosscurrent to our
purpose. times.
Alongside these paintings, the installation Medium: visual dialogue
and critical correspondence;
Collage Party Room punctuates the exhibition. open-ended questions,
Haphazardly scattered on the floor, the collages nagging instincts,
introspective musings, or
seem to lie in wait, reveling in their idleness. forceful assertions - all
The randomly selected accompanying music consistently guided by the
provides a mood, complementing the free spirit power of the artworks
themselves.
of collage. It may be an encompassing
soundtrack to the works on paper, but it is not Dimensions: the reach, depth,
definitive. Meaning in art, after all, is a hazy and range of contemporary
expression.
vision. Artists can only hint at it.
- Ringo Bunoan
 BLINDSPOT Blind New Works by: Argie Bandoy
Small but Terrible
31 x 34 cm.
Oil on canvas
2008

White Cross Anti Living Dead Untitled

161 x 181 cm. 122 x 122 cm.
Acrylic on canvas Oil on canvas
2008 2008
Pat Smear was here with his RX Untitled/Salvo
122 x 153 cm 145 x 154 cm
Build By The Housemartins / Oil, encaustic, enamel on canvas Oil, acrylic enamel, spray paint, acrylic on canvas
Destroyed by the Housemaster 2008 2008
145 x 163 cm, Oil on canvas
2008

The Collage Room Party

Video compilation by: Christian Quiambao
video projection
sound, collage material, NFS
2008

Sadomas/Ochistic (Mispent youth of Aubrey Beardsley)

212 x 186 cm
Oil on canvas Stukas Haunted Dear USA
2008 92 x 122 cm. 122 x 153 cm
Instruction for the Blind Oil, spray paint on canvas Oil on cotton cloth
126 x 127 cm 2008 2008
Oil, enamel and object (rake)
mounted on canvas, 2008

Collage Party Room

2008

mo_space, 3rd level, Mos design

Forget Party lets Paint
157 x 184 cm
Oil, Acrylic on canvas, 2008
Ultimo Mondo Cannibal (Impetigo discarded album cover) Deep Sea Angler Bonifacio High Street, Bonifacio Global City,
246 x 244 cm diptych 178 x 245 cm. Fort Taguig, Open daily 11am to 8pm
Oil on canvas Oil enamel object mounted on canvas/diptych
2008
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2008