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History of Olan Ventura
Personal Background

Olan Ventura birthday on July 07 and birthplace on Manila. Olan Ventura graduate from Fine Art program from University of the East in 1998. He is the top 9 photographer. Olan Ventura was the recipient of Juror’s Choice Award in the 2005 Philippines Art Award. Since 1998 to date, Olan has exhibited in various galleries and art spaces in different parts of Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Early Life and Career
Olan lives and works in Manila. The organizers TAKSU Singapore is proud to present the first solo exhibition of Filipino artist Olan Ventura in Singapore.

Olan Ventura’s Black Light, White Shadow is on view from November 19 to December 4, 2011. The venue of his gallery in the Ayala Museum, Greenbelt Park, on the corner of Makati Ave and De la Rosa St., Makati City. The Olan’s West gallery is the famous and fabulous paintings like Ronald Ventura’s paintings. There are many styles of technique he used. Olan and Ronald Ventura are many differences of style of techniques. Olan is the brother of Ronald Ventura, one of the country and best young artist. Olan Ventura is one of the finalists in the 2002 Philippine Art Awards. He bagged first place honors in oil category of the Shell Art Competition. Paintings style had an appearance of sorts while seeing at the lighted X-ray plate. All his photos became inverted and turned into their polar negatives, transforming skin into blue and eyes into ghostly whites. His paintings come across as panels filled with bluish and grayish figures but when seen through in infrared camera the figures have questioning traditional coloration in art, as well as study on how technology has affected the way we see figures and objects. His medium is acrylic that presents a stunning series of acrylic diptychs, featuring hyper-realistic portraits of famous contemporary figures such as Steve Jobs, Madonna and Michael Jackson next to a negative mirror image of the portrait. Olan Ventura works the “Negative Light 7”, oil and acrylic, 2009, 60” x 48”, “Negative Light 2”, oil and acrylic, 2009, 48” x 60”, “Gellophobia 1”, “Dark Light”, “Gellophobia 2”, “Inverted Skins”, “the Bald”, “Coldplay”, ” Psycho Fuchsia”, “X-Rayed Monroe”, “Super Suffering Girl”, “The Pac-man Pacquiao”, “ Contemporary Asia Art”, “Goes beyond the Pale”, “Art exposition”, “Asia Art Archive” ,”topic”.

TECHNIQUES OF ARTWORK
The strategy of Olan Ventura is to determine Portraiture in order to keep it alive yet unwell. And these are his new tools: a computer, a camera, a set of painting materials, and an inverse way of looking at the world. Just press command + “i”. For Olan, he chose to dig elsewhere: not just beneath the skin, or under the surface, but with technology behind him very crucial. Since technology has become our contemporary crutch, helps us think, hear and see. His styles in painting that skin takes on a lively dead color. Hair shimmers with an eerie blue. The colors are unnatural yet very real. The composition is literally in-your-face. Olan Ventura tells about there is still so much to plunder with the poker face of a genre called portraiture.

THE SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Face the Strange TAKSU Singapore 2011 Black Light, White Shadow- by West Gallery Ayala Museum, Manila 2010 Dark Light West Gallery, Manila 2009 Negative Light West Gallery, Manila Breathless Artesan Gallery + Studio, Singapore Toy Box TAKU KL, Malaysia 2008 X-Paused West Gallery, Manila XPosed Big & Small Art Gallery < Manila 2006 Flat Reality West Gallery, Manila Flat Reality The Art Center, SM Megamall, Manila 2005 Pinoy’s Idol West Gallery, Manila Plastic Realism Big & Small Art Gallery, Manila 2004 Family Portrait West Gallery, Manila Indoor Big Small & Small Art Gallery Manila Couple the Art Center, SM Megamall, Manila 2003 Rental Space Big & Small Art Gallery.

ACHIEVEMENTS
2007 Most Outstanding Alumnus (Arts & Culture), University of the East, Manila 2005 Juror’s Choice Awardee, Philippine Art Awards (sponsored by Philip Morris) 2000 3rd Place, 17th Young Painters Annual National Competition Watercolor Category (Metrobank Foundaton) 1999 Gawad Gintong Parangal ng Malabon 1998 1st Place, Shell National Students Art Competition / Exemplary Performance Award, University of the East / Artist of the Year, University of the East 1997 2nd Place, Shell National Students Competition / Exemplary Performance Award – National Level University of the East.

Sources
 * http://www.taksu.com/index.php/past-exhibitions/169-exhibition-2012-sg-olan-ventura


 * http://www.aaa.org.hk/WorldEvents/Details/20063
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 * http://www.questia.com/library/1G1-264945628/olan-ventura-homage-to-figuration
 * http://www.timeoutsingapore.com/art/events/olan-ventura-face-the-strange