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Jigger P. Cruz
Jigger P. Cruz (born on September 12, 1984 at Malabon City, Philippines) is a Filipino abstract artist, graduated BFA Fine Arts major in Advertising at Far Eastern University. He is a colorblind artist, who explores his own color comprehension. For him, the sophisticated emotions can be seen, inspire and obtain form simple forms.

His works circulates in geometric figures of swaying cadent mime. The idea of recognizable shapes and structures, living in inconsequent notions and emotions explores the affinity between moving element structures. He likes playing around with his painting, experimenting and creating another form of abstract art. He often uses oil for his paintings. He used to express his feelings through abstract art, and with that, it reflects his personality. His works are generally formed out of his personal naturally.

Elucidations and playful artifice doodles assessed over the knocked-off paintings from the centuries.

Personal Life
He stopped painting before exhibiting 2011 because of frustration and lack of confidentiality. He received discriminations for his works. His works are criticized by people around him when he joined the final competition in Metrobanks (2003) and Phillip Morris (2006)

In 2011, he decided to come back and refuse what other people say to his words. He didn’t let the criticism of the people stop him from showing his works and let others appreciate it. He didn’t let opinions screw him up and show the world what he got. He exhibited in different art galleries. These days, Manila’s art collectors can’t get enough of his pieces, paintings he once described as “wasak na talaga”, work he calls deconstructions. For him, underestimating the power and sensuality of color and ocular substance can join the audience to the works of emotional base. He strives to absorb both intellectual and emotional imagination.

Career
He grooved in the concept of defacement or what we so called vandalizaton. Defacing images, he cautiously develop from old master’s painting with globs of pigment squeezed directly from the tube, even running some spray paint over them as his final flourish. His works became blockbuster when he exhibit in Milan, at Primo Marella Gallery. The main idea is to describe the conception of forms that are bound to gesture, including the basic process of placing 2 or more things side by side over the spontaneous manner of traditional approach.

The layers manage to include natural mistakes considered as genius via its attractive content to course the ambient of each work that is indicated by drawn or painted lines the process of deconstructions and contradictions as a theoretical communication to dissolve the new meaning of one image to another. Each painting reveals, yet conceals, the idea of mixing layers, both evident and hidden, by ways of combining things independently.

Formed out of impressions, observations and emotional experiences, Cruz feel in reality as an endless process of conflicts and conclusions, therefore the tonality of experience can never be persistent in a determined way. For him, he composition or structure of life is like the surface of a block of rocks shaped, formed, molded by the consequence and circumstances of daily activity, conflicts, personal and collective casualties and individual questioning. His works revolve around a certain thing until it becomes a realization, consummation and fulfillment to array the impression of consciousness.

The idea matters the size of the artworks, because the volume of canvass is finite and the medium he used have heavy textures. It’s expostulation for him to work on various images on a small surface. Working on small canvases become an antidote because he used to work on big canvasses. He experimented and enjoyed working on different ideas for the preparation of his next big works. He started all over again in small canvases that leads him to prepare in working in big canvases.

According to Clarissa Chikiamco, an art writer and curator, graduated Magna Cum Laude of BFA Art Management in Ateneo de Manila University,“Stimulated by the idea of repetitive motions, of the rollicking movement of back and forth and back and forth, Swing, Jigger Cruz’s first solo exhibition, revolves around geometric translations of rhythmic swaying gestures. The works, a scuffle of textures and forms that situate well within similar past works of Cruz, are born from his exercises of the composition of cyclical gesticulations.

Cruz paints an assemblage of recognizable objects and obscure shapes which interlace, envelope and unfurl within one another. Simultaneously tempered and fueled by scientific-based inspired titles, elements such as satellite disks, bicycle wheels, coiling striped horns and sprays of particles are within these shuffling vortexes of the nonsensical. The focus, aided by a fairly subdued palette, turns to configuration which leads the lingering visual experience into its stormy yet measured rocking. Yet like the childhood playground favorite the exhibition name alludes to, the paintings are fittingly done in a sport and spirit of frolic by which viewers’ roving eyes can take in coy pleasure.”

Exhibitions

 * "Pink Fumes" 2007, Pablo Gallery, Cubao, Araneta Center, Quezon City, Philippnes
 * "Swing" 2008, Blanc Art Space, Makati City, Philippines
 * "Constructing Deconstruction" 2009, Tala Gallery, Tomas Morato, Philippines
 * "Tabi Tabi Po, a charity art event" 1:AM Gallery, San Francisco, CA
 * "Watching the Wheels", 2010, Ayala Museum, Philippines
 * "Dead End" 2011, West Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
 * "Glitch Habitation" 2012, Primae Noctis Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland