In his latest one-man exhibit at West Gallery, Jojo Lofranco lets the audience in on how he works, using varied materials to express visual narratives that best explain his art making process. Titled Grammar Anthology, the exhibit, featuring three of Lofranco’s new large-scale works on canvas and on paper, opens on September 9, and runs until October 15.
“This exhibition is about my characteristics, the system of my inflections. I have always been systematic about my process,” says Lofranco. “As regards to compositions, the painterly process quickly dissolves overt geometry in atmospherics. I would like to show the syntax of how I like bringing together or assembling [elements], and then tidying them up.” In choosing to demonstrate this in a large scale, people could see every step up close.
Lofranco believes that paintings are the most materially palpable art objects. All three works are done using acrylic, oil pastel, and charcoal or pencil. The color scheme includes green, yellow ochre, and white, expressing the tension between abstract forms. “My compositions are the most ethereal of things, evoking nuances of light and air that can transport the viewer as readily as any romantic landscape of the past by virtue of their atmospheric qualities and sensitivity to the salient particulars of natural phenomena.”
He continues, “Hopefully, I could allow viewers to sense a strong sense of phantasm and aspiration as to expanses in a manner reminiscent of the skeletons for my abstract compositions.” Lofranco likes to continue expressing the overall poetic and romantic magnitude of his artistic vision, motivating him to keep pursuing different ways to articulate what he finds fascinating.
Jojo Lofranco studied painting at the Institute of Fine Arts and Design, Philippine Women’s University.
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