Art of Lawrence Cervantes

28/11/2024

God’s Judgement
Oil on canvas
40x30 inches
2024

The painting portrays the judgement of God to us and to our sins, everything or anything in this world is within his control no matter the situation or position you are. This narrations shows the rotten society and the corrupt officials together with the nations enemy will face and taste the Gods punishment.

27/10/2024

Enkanto sa Mahiwagang Gubat
Oil on Canvas
36x24 inches
2024

Sa kabilogan ng buwan ang mga enkanto na nakatago sa kadiliman ay lumalabas at lumiligid ligid para mag-obserba sa mga taong naninirahan at naliligaw sa gitna ng kagubatan.

Ang kwento na binuo base sa kathang imahinasyon na isinalin sa obra. “Centaur”ang pangalan ng nilalang na hango sa mahiwagang halimaw ng mga banyaga, na anyong tao at kalahating kabayo sa ibaba, kabaliktaran ng lokal nateng nilalang na tikbalang, na kalahating kabayo din na, sa itaas naman ang kinuhang anyo ng kabayo. “Kababaihan” naman ang tawag sa mga Pilipina.

Nabuo ang storya batay sa mga nag-iibigang lokal at banyaga na nagiging popular sa kasalukuyan. Ang paglagay ng centaur imbis na tikbalang ay isang simbolo ng banyaga na nanirahan na sa ating bansa dahil dito nya natagpuan ang tunay na pagmamahal.

Bayluhanay (Ilonggo word for exchange, Tagalog for palitan), is an initiative by Eskinita to gather cooperation and collaboration with artists from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

It began in 2018 as a pop-up series of exhibits at the Molo Mansion in Iloilo. This year, Eskinita revived the program in collaboration with Puluy-an Art Gallery.

This coming October, Eskinita is bringing the project to Museo de Oro, Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao. This archipelagic format of representing artists from different regions will be the beginning of a new edition of Bayluhanay to be launched next year.

Sumpay sa Katawhan opens on October 25, 2024. It will run until January 2, 2025.

Participating artists are:

Mindanao

Rey G. Bollozos, Errol P. Balcos, Jericho Vamenta, Michelle Hollanes Lua, Kelly Ramos, Oscar Floirendo, Raul Bendit,
Karatula.

Visayas

Melvin Guirhem, Jonathan Madeja, Lorebert Maralita, Macouy Gonzales, Jirah Labanza, Pro Gelladuga, Orland Espinosa.

Luzon

Alfredo Esquillo, Ianna Engaño, Lawrence Cervantes, Macj Turla, Mark Laza, Denmark dela Cruz, Melvin Pollero, Marko Bello.

07/02/2024

Lawrence Cervantes takes deep inspiration from the daily sceneries that surround his hometown Hagonoy. Sitting on the northern shores of Manila Bay, his town has become a natural catch basin, making it vulnerable to intense flooding during high tides in the rainy season. Due to this, one would normally see ducks and herons swimming in the downpour of floodwater from the elevated neighbouring towns. It's a surreal sight that almost looks like a figment of a waking dream, but for Cervantes, this is nothing out of the ordinary and is just another typical day in the place he grew up in. Perhaps this is what inspires the dreamy atmosphere that he exudes in his body of work, as he recreates the perceived stillness and absurdity of dreams by blending his visualized phantasms with objects and characters that exist in the waking world. His paintings transport his viewers into a hidden realm, where images are painted in the atmospheric aesthetics of a freshly remembered dream. This is a world terraformed with depictions of the unearthly, where strange creatures inhibit a serene, uncharted landscape. From this entrancing backdrop, ideas that echo impressions of traditional folklore come into being.

Cervantes uses the process of creative intuition when constructing his images. From there, he continues to shape his narrative as he manifests the characters and elements that populate his work. Though his attempts to contrive visual narratives are usually unplanned, concepts around them develop as images begin to take shape. Existential and sociopolitical concepts may develop and materialize, but the artist does not delve into them and just leaves his audience to dissertate the conceptual essence of his work.

By: Dave Lock

22/01/2024

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16/01/2024

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10/08/2023

16/07/2022

Evergreen
14 — 24 July 2022

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23/03/2022

Somewhere
Oil on canvas
36x48 inches
2022

11/12/2021

Lawrence Cervantes highlights reflective and humbled reverence in his latest solo exhibition. Imbuing light and vigor on his canvases, “Rejuvenation” stands as a breather amidst a physical world beyond our limited understanding.

10/11/2021

UPCOMING 🗓

Contemporary visual artists are acutely aware of the crucial time that we inhabit. They have continuously sought to capture that ambiguous, non-linear space between beginnings and endings. Tying his spiritual knowledge to the knowledge of the world, Lawrence Cervantes returns to Galerie Stephanie with his solo exhibition titled Rejuvenation. In this series, the Bulacan-based artist depicts the cycle of destruction to restoration--a continuation from his evolving narratives present in his past solo exhibitions “Origins”, “Take Over”, and “Reset”.

Breathing vigor and life on previously somber canvases, the twenty artworks humbly presented in Rejuvenation depict Cervantes' subjects’ rituals and reflective reverence--a visual breather amidst a world beyond our limited factual understanding.

“Rejuvenation” opens this coming Saturday, November 13, 2021 and will be on view at the gallery from November 13 - November 28, 2021. Galerie Stephanie is located at Shangri-la Plaza East Wing, Mandaluyong City, open from 10 am to 6 pm daily.

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03/06/2021

06/05/2021

Issue No. 2 of The Maginhawa Street Journal is themed "Lost." Cover art is by Lawrence Cervantes and Art Cube Gallery. Pages will be shared nightly. Prefer the magazine in one go? Download for free from www.maginhawajournal.com/issue-no-2-lost. Enjoy.