Leslie de Chavez
Available Artworks
Kalakaran bilang Absurd Fascist Semiotics
2021
10718
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oil, metallic leaf on canvas
47.5h x 47.5w in • 120.65h x 120.65h cm (each) (triptych)
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This triptych alludes to the hand game 'bato-bato-pick' to symbolise the current administration’s trivialisation of the national justice system. Being the husband of a public prosecutor, de Chavez is familiar with narratives of injustice and power struggle. These paintings include judicial affidavits; although the text may appear identical, they are of three different cases, reflecting the absence of legitimacy – a ceremony without meaning. Juxtaposing this exploitations are six small tondo paintings contained within the larger panel, referencing the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, who was also critical of socio-political issues during his time. These six studies illustrate a missionary being tested and then exonerated; de Chavez incorporates them into this work to demonstrate the proper way to conduct legal offences. Multi-layered in its application, as well as its cultural and historical references, this triptych reveals not only the artist’s mastery of the medium, but his ideologically rooted practice.
Details This triptych alludes to the hand game 'bato-bato-pick' to symbolise the current administration’s trivialisation of the national justice system. Being the husband of a public prosecutor, de Chavez is familiar with narratives of injustice and power struggle. These paintings include judicial affidavits; although the text may appear identical, they are of three different cases, reflecting the absence of legitimacy – a ceremony without meaning. Juxtaposing this exploitations are six small tondo paintings contained within the larger panel, referencing the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, who was also critical of socio-political issues during his time. These six studies illustrate a missionary being tested and then exonerated; de Chavez incorporates them into this work to demonstrate the proper way to conduct legal offences. Multi-layered in its application, as well as its cultural and historical references, this triptych reveals not only the artist’s mastery of the medium, but his ideologically rooted practice.
