Qube Gallery is pleased to begin the year 2023 by presenting local artists in his second solo exhibitions, opening simultaneously in our Qube Crossroads branch. He drew from his formal training as
There is a wistful innocence that peeks, shyly, from Kean Larrazabal’s canvases. This is a child lost in play. Time has no meaning, no consequence. All there is, is the wonderful construct of make-believe, allowing escape into a Neverland of certain glee and magic. Kean renders an assured evocation of the rapt concentration of the truly absorbed, the power of belief to suspend reality, and the frantic, frenetic childhood games we all played. Kean’s child is in somewhat ragged clothing though.
It is not merely the overlarge, hand-me-down wife beater that the child has been forced to wear. It is not just the rubber slippers. The cardboard costumes that Kean bestows on his superhero wanna-be’s may have something to do with it. For the lack of expensive Lycra costumes , a child’s imagination, plus some discarded pieces of paper, will just have to do. Perhaps, there are also his strokes liberally applied on to his canvases.
Kean renders an assured evocation of the rapt concentration of the truly absorbed, the power of belief to suspend reality, and the frantic, frenetic childhood games we all played. Kean snares us between two possible realities. On one hand, there is the guilelessness of youth, of magic in every moment, of the ability of make-believe to transcend. On the other, there is the discordant note of having to make-do, of the absence of essentials, and the privations that children unknowingly suffer. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and individual perspectives allow us to color what we experience. To either sugarcoat it, or taint it.
His works have been featured, among others, at J Studio, Grey Space Gallery, Art Anton Gallery, and Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Arts. In addition to this, Larrazabal is a contributor to digital art initiatives in the Philippines. He currently lives and works in Cebu, Philippines.
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