Jigger Cruz

born in 1984 in Manila (Philippines)

Jigger’s art practice is characterized by his idea to play with defacement and vandalization, making use of the oil colour, the spray paint and the rough interventions on the canvases, which he uses to burn and, in some cases, even to cut.

Each artwork was born from a painted canvas, where the artist copied the Flemish and Post-Renaissance masters. Apparently without a logical scheme, Cruz applies layer by layer the dense oil colour, not only hiding, rather mystifying the classical backdrop.

The artworks made for this exhibition explore the concept of failure in the visual dialogue between utter surface and inner content, between past and present, between figuration and abstraction.

Jigger Cruz is a young Philippino artist already quoted in the intenational auction houses in the world. He studied Fine Arts at the Far Eastern University in the Philippines and design at De La Salle-College of St. Benilde.

Personal Exhibition (selected)

2016

Smudging dirty little touch, Albertz Benda, New York, NY

2015

Subtraction Paradise, ARNDT, Berlino
Deep down into the ecstasy of false modernism, Primo Marella Gallery Milan, Milano
Smudging Dirty Little Touch, Albertz Benda, New York, NY

2013

Surface Default, Light & Space Contemporary, Quezon City

2012

Glitch Habitation, Primae Noctis Art Gallery, Lugano
Spatial Soother, West Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
Birth of the Parti Bantam Paintings, Ronac Art Center, San Juan City, Philippines

2011

Dead End, West Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
Anti Depressants on Paper, Crucible Gallery, Mandaluyong City

2009

Constructing Deconstruction, Tala Gallery, Tomas Morato, Quezon City, Philippines 2008 Swing, Blanc Art
Space, Makati City, Philippines

Group Exhibition (selected)

2015

A3 Presents: Wasak! Filipino Art Today, ARNDT, Berlino

2014

Manila: The Night is Restless, The Day is Scornful, ARNDT Singapore, Singapore

2013

Abstrakt, Contemporary Fine Arts - CFA, Berlino
Abstrakt, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlino

2012

Ohne Titel, Light & Space Contemporary, Quezon City
Impending Doom Theory, Light & Space Contemporary, Quezon City
Anti-war=anti-orgasm, Light & Space Contemporary, Quezon City
Star Cruiser Sopas Collision, Now Gallery, Makati City
Latitudes. Encounters With The Philippines Part 2, Primo Marella Gallery Milan, Milano

2011

Munnyfestation, Blanc, Quezon City

2010

Happy Unhappy, Blanc, Quezon City

2009

Figuration Now, Paseo Gallery, Mandaluyong City
A Book About Death: An unbound book on the subject of death, Emily Harvey Space, New York, USA
If You Only Walk Long Enough, Studio 83, Singapore
Looking for Juan, Cultural Center of the Philippines

2008

BOXED, Cubicle Art Space – Pasig City

2004

Philippine Art Awards, Philippine National Museum, Manila