As promised, here’s the second installment of Eko Nugroho’s work in 3-d. This stunning bronze pair was a part of “It’s all about Coalition”, a project commissioned by the National Museum of Singapore earlier this April. Photo of the bronzes courtesy of National Museum of Singapore.

The two other images below are from “The Golden Years”, an installation consisting of over-sized golden skulls, embroidered flags and mural from the Sea Art Festival at Busan Biennale this year. This work is an absurd take on the turbulent years of Indonesia’s history. Eko is pictured in both photos as the shots were taken during set up.

One of RogueArt’s favourite artists and persons in the world, Eko Nugroho opened his latest solo exhibition at Galeri Semarang on November 8th. Woohoo! While we are sorry we couldn’t be there to cheer him on, we do however have images from the exhibition to share with everyone.

We want to adopt the green hippo.

A versatile artist who works across numerous disciplines and media, Eko began experimenting with 3-dimensional life-sized forms in 2007. Cast in polyurethane resin or bronze, the artist’s stable of part-man part-machine creatures and objects made their first public appearance at his solo exhibition with Ark Galerie in Jakarta in March 2008. They have also graced the Glass Atrium of the National of Museum of Singapore for a special project commission in April 2008 as well as the recent Sea Arts Festival at Busan Biennale 2008 in September. We’ll post more Eko pictures next week. Promise.

Trivia: The title of this exhibition is based on one of his large scale embroideries from 2007 at VWFA’s Project Room show, “In Wonderland”. Here’s an image of the embroidery during the set up.

Psychogenic Fugue belongs to Patricia Eustaquio’s latest body of work, inspired by JS Bach’s piano exercise, The Well Tempered Clavier. This haunting crochet sculpture, cast from an existing piano, is part of a series of 12 works, silent odes to the sublimity of Bach’s music, recently unveiled at Patty’s highly anticipated solo exhibition Death to the Major, Viva Minor at SLab (Silverlens Lab) on October 16th.

Quick trivia: the existing piano belongs to Nona Garcia’s grandmother.

Our other favourite work from this show is Untitled (Piano), made of tooled leather and ceramic keys. Patty worked with leather craftsmen in Marikina to create the body and the piano keys are shaped from delicate ceramic.

SLab is the latest (and sexiest) addition to Manila’s new contemporary art spaces opening along Pasong Tamo Extension in Makati -Finale Art File and Manila Contemporary are in the vicinity. Those of you who have seen and experienced the bridge will know what we mean by sexy. It’s very Diego and Frida! SLab is dedicated to presenting contemporary Filipino art and is a part of the Silverlens Group, helmed by the formidable Isa Lorenzo and Rachel Rillo. To find out more check out http://slab.silverlensphoto.com

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