exhibition + biography
Robert Ronquillo (1990, Manila, PH) is a bachelor student at Minerva Academy Groningen. Mainly work in multiple domains of media. Consisting media on Sculpture, Installation, Drawing and Photography. Focusing in cities, grids, spatial shapes and Personal Mythology.
“I’m obsessed with the use of the grid, unconsciously it has been always present in most of my work. It’s stabilizes the elements and provide beneficial framework. In the meanwhile as well interested colonial and personal background/identity.”
"The material I use is mainly bound with sculpture and installation, recent work has a base with plaster and colour pigment. Togheter with construction materials as plywood, metal grid and bricks for the framework. I'd like to say I am still in an experimental phase, these gives me opportunity to behave in a multi disciplinary attitude. I believe versatility broaden my horizon during my bachelor. By that I can confess the love for playing with different materials."
"With these materials and attitude I construct some way of geographical form juxtaposition the factuality of the grid. Shapes and elements are somewhat based of islands and ethnic elements. Partly because it happened I was born on the archipelago of the Philippines. By traveling back in to my personal history and falsely childhood memory, I discovered an new world of some kind or imaginary world of islands. Therefor I construct a new landscape in regards of history my own"
"As spatial phenomena in which geographical places are reconfigured in to a new narrative, a personal one. I leave the viewer an shifting image in how memories get distorted by distanced past."
“I’m obsessed with the use of the grid, unconsciously it has been always present in most of my work. It’s stabilizes the elements and provide beneficial framework. In the meanwhile as well interested colonial and personal background/identity.”
"With these materials and attitude I construct some way of geographical form juxtaposition the factuality of the grid. Shapes and elements are somewhat based of islands and ethnic elements. Partly because it happened I was born on the archipelago of the Philippines. By traveling back in to my personal history and falsely childhood memory, I discovered an new world of some kind or imaginary world of islands. Therefor I construct a new landscape in regards of history my own"
"As spatial phenomena in which geographical places are reconfigured in to a new narrative, a personal one. I leave the viewer an shifting image in how memories get distorted by distanced past."
biography
born 1990 Manilla, Philipines
currently works and lives in Groningen,
Netherlands
education
2016-current BFA, Bacholor of Fine Art,
Academie Minerva - Groningen
exhibitions
2017 May Group exhibit "Exhibit
1"Y2, Groningen
2017 June Group exhibit "One
See"Stichting WEP, Groningen
2017 July Duo exhibit
"Mierenmoordenaar" with Joppe Venema Salon, Groningen
2018 June Group exhibition
"Synesthesia" Y2, Groningen
2018 November Group exhibition "Kunst
in de Kerk"Nicolaï kerk, Appingendam
2020 MAYDAYS MINERVA
"deSLEGTETV", online based