Project Description

Oil on canvas-textured paper laid down on cardboard

Dimensions : 70 cm x 53 cm

Sign top left

Damag Gaston (1964) – Not masculine

Lives and works in Ile Saint Denis

He is a Filipino artist living in Paris whose roots in the Cordillera region of the Philippines influence his artistic practice..

This heritage is amalgamated with his own training in ethnology and anthropology, and an academic training at the Beaux-Arts in Paris.

It uses contemporary and industrial materials such as steel, glass, wool and oil paints that he mixes with the bululs (wood carving of Ifugao rice deities) to formulate critiques of identity, geopolitics, colonization, perception and modernity. .

Damag's art led him to exhibit in various museums in France, in Luxembourg, in the United States and the Philippines.

He also participated in Art fairs such as the famous International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC) in France, Art Basel in Switzerland and Art Basel Hong Kong as well as at Biennials such as Thessaloniki and Jakarta.

FORMATION

1989-93 National School of Fine Arts, Paris, France

1987-90 National School of Plastic Arts, Cergy Pontoise, France

1987-89 Faculty of the Sorbonne, Paris (French civilization)

1984 University of the Philippines

Source : https://www.gastondamag.com/about-gaston-damag/

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