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Jigger Cruz

Jigger Cruz (Born 1984) is active/lives in Philippines.  Jigger Cruz is known for Non objective highly colored intricately designed painting.

From painting warm flat fantastical paintings, Jigger Cruz took a break for two years and then resumed sometime in 2011. Upon return, a noticeable change took form through his surfaces that began to bubble. Cruz's perplexing palimpsests layer voluptuous masses of color paint over another carefully-painted image brazenly copied from canons.

Working with the notion of defiance as defacement, Cruz deconstructs his genre through a
tangible separation of materials—paint and surface, the latter encompassing both canvas and academic practice. Cruz draws attention away from the surface semiotic-hunting praxis. Instead, he rechannels it towards the exploration of art production, exploring its limitations by fetishisizing the onerous details that, curiously, never constitute in themselves the marketable art aura.

Such a statement is encapsulated with an ornate classical frame, mockingly sealing his self-reflexive critique with the weight of an institutional history that both i   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1034 characters.]  Artist bio

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