11.11.11 solo show by UNGGA @ Vinyl On Vinyl (Nov 11 launch)
Well-known street artist in the Philippines, Ungga will be having his first solo show @ Viny On Vinyl on November 11th - with the show titled: 11.11.11. As well he will be coming out with a figure (which also is the 1st VoV produced-figure!). We'll have images of the resin piece soon enough - meanwhile, do check out the preview images of his artwork in this post and the artist write-up posted below:
UNGGA: The Artist believes in effectively raising a level of social conscious and personal inquiry through usurping the power of mass media as a vehicle for awareness. The Artist chooses to speak to the psyche of our nations alienated youth, representing a generation in search of a new form of art.
Ungga started doing street art back in 2006 and have always been considered a creative individual, when he was taking his Masters degree in Fine Arts in University of Santo Tomas he was influenced by his classmate now known as Boyagimat, and started doing stickers and later on met Okto and Deformindustry. His first real devotion to the arts revealed itself during that time. His thirst for creation exploded after seeing graffiti art/street art emanate from movies and in the internet. Back in his college life he mostly write on his armchair and even when he goes to the comfort room to take a dump he usually write something or draw in walls, back then this form of art was not open to the society as they call it “vandalism” The enormity of the works and the care free expression of color displayed a means by which he could gain the attention that every teen is so desperately seeking. This form of “vandalism” which now he adds beauty on the word itself or as he call it urban beautification turns out to a colorful vibrant that attract the community. This idea of searching for his identity through the use of markers and spray paint fueled his desire to follow in the footsteps of a graffiti artist/street artist.
He finds himself at a point in life where he is beginning to see through the spray paint haze. He now realizes that an artist's work should represent their soul. So, through the use of urban media techniques which until now is still learning and exploring for him, he found a new love for creating public art, he is attempting to bridge the gap between urban graffiti/street arts and traditional art here in the Philippines.
In almost every country and city graffiti and street art is present in many forms. Some artists choose the permanency of spray painted tags, throw-ups, installation art, and stenciled imagery, while others opt for the immediacy and aging characteristics of stickers and paste ups. Often times, these artists of the street will battle with each other for visibility on the same surfaces. Over time, the multiple transformations of these surfaces reveal an abstract maze of colors and composition that he sees as an opportunity. The opportunity to create something much greater than what meets the eye rather seeing those advertising billboards and political propagandas that manipulate our mind to buy the stuff or to vote for them or even give them the credits for the next election.
His vision is to create this form of art that the society will accept and be open minded to this form of art. White wall is there canvas. Streets that are filled with colors and characters to remind us our culture. As feelings are evoked from the written words and the often emotionally charged imagery he leave it on the streets a physical manifestation builds to a point of overflow. Ultimately unleashing itself in a furor of uninhibited energy, where time and place become nonexistent. It is in this vitality that his artistic soul reveals itself and dances its way into a flurry of whirling paint and exploding spray paint cans and the smell of fumes.
