LARGE CANVAS PANELS' PREPARATIONS

The four large blank canvases are prepared in my studio in Tsuen Wan. They are first stretched on the wall and painted with several coatings of gesso before attaching to canvas stretchers. These will then be transported to the gallery in Lan Kwai Fong.

I always make it a point to stretch the canvas on flat and smooth plywood walls, spray with water evenly and allow to dry. This will prepare the surface neatly and smoothly without wrinkles for the gesso application. And just like buying and using pre-coated canvases, this approach will allow the canvas to be neatly wrapped around the wooden canvas stretchers especially when some people prefer not to use frames when hanging paintings on the wall.

JUNE 3-24, 2008 at SARASEN GALLERY, HONG KONG

Now comes the 3^RD PHILIPPINE ARTS FESTIVAL HONG KONG, June 2008:

Kindly visit the website to see all of the events:

http://www.philartsfesthk.com/

In line with this arts and cultural event I am going to have an exhibition .

TINY STUDIO +: Filipino Artist J O E L E. F E R R A R I S
in a live painting performance from June 3, 2008 until June 24, 2008

Launching date: June 3, 2008 (6:00 p.m.)
Closing Party: June 24, 2008 (6: 00 p.m.)

For details and regular updates please visit

http://ferrarismuralist.blogspot.com/

This solo exhibition and performance are all about my experiences here in Hong Kong as a visual artist from the Philippines forced by circumstances to live and do art inside “luxurious boxes” in this world city.

On the opening date of the exhibition, I will start to paint randomly small images on several large blank canvas panels inside this art gallery. The exhibition venue setting is reminiscent of my first experience in doing art here in Hong Kong when I arrived in 1996 and, likewise, of how I worked on very large mural projects for clubhouses given the limited space I had in my studio in an industrial building.

The challenge is how to produce these pieces given these circumstances and put them altogether as one later, view them from the best distance to see the hidden meaning and image and transport them to wherever a transient artist or art collector would like to go, and to let the whole combined art pieces mutate and adapt to the given situation depending on the new place of residence.

On the closing date, guests will be seeing the mural as a finished art piece. A possible relocation of the whole mural to another bigger and more spacious venue, preferably in a public place, will allow viewers to see the final hidden image that completes the message of this large art piece.

The rest of the story are found here: http://ferrarismuralist.blogspot.com/

SARA SEN GALLERY & STUDIO PLUS

27-37, D’ Aguilar Street, Winner Building, 5th Flr-A, Lan Kwai Fong, Central, Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 2525 6984

Email: gallery.sarasen@gmail.com

Web: www.sarasene.com

COMING SOON!!!!

IT RUNS IN THE BLOOD: The Ferraris Artists Group Show

Opens July 4, 2008 (6:00 p.m.)

SARA SEN GALLERY & STUDIO PLUS

See more of the Ferraris Art online at http://ferrarisart.blogspot.com/