Reg Yuson proves that he is not just going in circles in his latest one-man show at the West Gallery in Glorietta 4, Seemingly Unseemingly. The show, which runs from September 30 to October 12, features Reg Yuson’s new works in fiberglass and automobile paint.
Seemingly Unseemingly seeks to reach out to its viewers’ emotions, as Reg Yuson treats it as the approach through which he can understand the human psyche. “Love Lost” and “The Physical Presence of Subconscious Manifestation” have protruding circles (or holes) that have no exact meaning, only a larger landscape of infinite possibilities.
The exhibit itself asks, “What is the color of our thoughts?” There is no definite answer, and it is in this wide-open scenario that Reg Yuson chooses to play his cards. He provides the media through which viewers can individually relate and respond to what they see and feel.
“One of the key conflicts of art has always been centered on balancing the necessary visible aspect, the concrete material, color, and space assumed by a work, and the invisible [aspect] that aspires to the spiritual level of the intellect and the ideal,” notes Reg Yuson in his artist’s statement. “This issue is ultimately about finding an appropriate relation between void and material expression.”
He adds that his works does not end in creating abstraction, but in being able “to ideate virtual objects and images that emerge from the inner recesses of the psyche, wherein their visible physical presence simply manifest themselves.” Behind the abstract images are also abstract, intellectual content.
Reg Yuson uses circles not just as compositional elements, “but as the work or the focal [point] itself, perhaps because it appeals to my admittedly astute, utopian principles in aesthetics and design, and because its perfection is also the fallacy of its own logic.”
“It is my statement to the ironies and metaphors in life.” Yet Reg Yuson quickly points out that meaning is not found on the physical and formal details of his works, “but on how we respond through our subjective realities.”
Reg Yuson uses the colors white, pearl white, and metallic orange, but each one’s thoughts are of a different color, depending on how he/she responds to different emotions. A circle represents continuity, of being able to tap into as many experiences and influences, in which Reg Yuson’s works may elicit a wider range of emotions. Thus, as the title suggests, everything is not what it seems.
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