Filipino artist seeks creation through destruction

Filipino artist seeks creation through destruction

Destruction can create beauty in the artworks of Filipino artist Jigger Cruz which will be exhibited during “Paradigmal Traps” at Tang Contemporary Art from Thursday July 1 to July 25.

Cruz has brought a new collection of paintings and drawings that challenge perception rendered in his signature style, which involves tubes of oil paint squeezed onto canvas, strokes of rough and thick three-dimensional surfaces that meet in a grid of coloured lines, and strips of colour overlap travelling in parallel lines…