Vermont Coronel aka xVRX talks about his work in "About Face" exhibit

Vermont Coronel a.k.a. xVRX is one of the four featured contemporary artists invited by Lopez Museum in the exhibit "About Face".

Curatorial consultant Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez said that the artists were asked to "consider images within the museum and library archive collections in taking on the proposed theme." On the occasion of Rizal's 150th anniversary, the artists used and incorporated portraits, including the museum's extensive Rizaliana holdings and its LVN still archives, among others.

For "About Face," he created a stenciled portrait of an old man, dually alluding to images of everyday life repurposed and sited surreptitiously in luminal urban space.

He described his work as "my piece is a stencil portrait of an old man, a drifter. He travels continuously, in search of a little roof for the night. The piece was made using a large scale stencil, which, before it reached the walls of the museum, was used outside. Sprayed and applied on different walls, on a city to city basis. The stencil is connected to the actual subject. Who suddenly pops out on a wall or on a street corner in a matter of minutes."

xVRx is a member of the Plipinas Street Plan (PSP) and has participated in arts festivals and residency programs such as Outlooke Pointe Foundation and AX (is) Art Project Baguio City.

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