It's difficult to ignore how insightfully balanced Jojo Gubalane's works are, a quality that can be readily discerned in Transfiguration, the artist's second solo exhibition.
Currently on exhibit in the 3rd Level of the Ayala Center Cebu, the exhibit gathers more than 30 works made by Gubalane, each crafted with a care and concern that mirrors his pilgrimage towards extending and expanding his aesthetic sights, his creative aims and his directional goals.
Covering a varied range of life's subjects and themes, each of the exhibit's featured pieces is born from an amalgam of different artistic styles and techniques, executed in a seamless method that is neither off-placed nor off-putting.
From abstract compositions that take their visual cues from the standards of endearing representational styles to thought provoking compositions that are born from a refreshed stance in the making of process oriented works, Transfiguration essentially bares how Gubalane works with a vibrant palette of colors, shades, textures and hues in accomplishing his aesthetic goals.
For visual artists, the well-worn grooves of habit can be a dangerous thing.
Transfiguration – as an exhibit – proves that Gubalane is still a long way from falling into the pedantic pitfalls and the Waterloos defined by habit and routine's more ruinous aspects.
Transfiguration will be on exhibit until December 22, 2013, in the 3rd Level of the Ayala Center Cebu.