Popfusion

Qube Gallery in coordination with the Bright Eyes Series presents Popfusion by Kim Bartz this March 18 Wednesday 6pm, to April 6, 2015 at Qube Gallery at the Henry Hotel, Ma. Luisa Road, Banilad, Cebu City.

Kim Napha Barbara Aurelia P. Bartz is a 25 year old Filipina – Luxembourger. She is a graduating student of fine arts with major in painting at the University of San Carlos. She won 1st place att eh 8th Pintal Exhibit and 4th Cristobal Espina Art Awards last March 2014.

Her influences include University art teacher Nomar Miano, the late Edgar Mojares, Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, Filipino Ronald Ventura, Austrian painter Gottfried Heinwein, French academic William Bougeureau and her father.

Her works can be labeled as Pop Art. Pop art is the art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. The art movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material.

Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. It is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them.

Exhibit opens up at 6pm this Wednesday so be sure to take note of the schedules. See you there!

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