Appetite for Wonder
2016
Solo Exhibition
Formosa 101 Art Fair Taipe Expo Dome, Taipei, Taiwan
Presented by The Drawing Room Manila
Arriving in Totality
Formally, light has become a device to reinforce elements of a work. How, then, does one make it a subject-object? Derek Tumala uses light, and wrestles with the arbitrary principle of optics. As material for the work, the calculations in achieving solidity to refractions prone to mutability become experimentations with abstractions. But that is the art bit of all the projects struggling to free the flat image. Tumala’s journey into the physicality of art is witnessed through his marriage of the three-dimensional object with the moving image, setting multiple variables whose singularity could not exist without the other. However, his interest is that of totality – one that surpasses the question of where one thing begins and another ends.
Appetite for Wonder arrives at another marriage, one that bears a progeny complex because of the non- separation, non-distinction of its precedents. It is a search for material where light comes in, and becomes it. The tangible material is only a refraction, and it is the place where color arrives all at the same time.
- Sidd Perez
2016
Solo Exhibition
Formosa 101 Art Fair Taipe Expo Dome, Taipei, Taiwan
Presented by The Drawing Room Manila
Arriving in Totality
Formally, light has become a device to reinforce elements of a work. How, then, does one make it a subject-object? Derek Tumala uses light, and wrestles with the arbitrary principle of optics. As material for the work, the calculations in achieving solidity to refractions prone to mutability become experimentations with abstractions. But that is the art bit of all the projects struggling to free the flat image. Tumala’s journey into the physicality of art is witnessed through his marriage of the three-dimensional object with the moving image, setting multiple variables whose singularity could not exist without the other. However, his interest is that of totality – one that surpasses the question of where one thing begins and another ends.
Appetite for Wonder arrives at another marriage, one that bears a progeny complex because of the non- separation, non-distinction of its precedents. It is a search for material where light comes in, and becomes it. The tangible material is only a refraction, and it is the place where color arrives all at the same time.
- Sidd Perez
