Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art

Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art
25 Lopez Avenue, Lopez Village,Sucat
Paranaque City, Metro Manila 1700
Philippines
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Francisco Viri

Francisco Pellicer Viri

These works are part of a group of works which were done in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. They are a reaction and a process of working out the thoughts behind the events and the other thoughts behind these events. The figures are essentially single outlines constructed with the single line behind a backdrop which simulates the debris from the attacks on the world trade center. What some people confused as confetti is actually inspired by the falling ash and broken pieces coming down to the earth.The paintings allowed me to think about the danger of religion. Richard Dawkins said that the love of money is not the root of all evil. Instead religion is the root of all evil. The lone figure and the background of destruction was dispalying for me the orchestration of religion and human existence. The religion is obviously the grand danger. So the works are my visual statements that privately encourages my thoughts to see that religion is the most dangerous obstacle in the path of human progress. The myths of the religions of today results in tyranny, oppression, misery and terrorism. The mythologies of Jesus and Mohammed and others are the foundations for people who are willing to implement violence on innocent people. Remember that the catholic church tortured and killed the last chief librarian at the great library of Alexandria. He knew the myths and did not wish to become a catholic. The catholics who think they are so good detroyed the library of Alexandria and the Apollo library in Rome. They also destroyed all the Roman bath houses because taking a bath supposedly lead to promiscuity. The Roman bath houses also had libraries. The new roman catholics became illiterate and prone to infection because they did not take baths. There is the Babylonian religion or one of them which tells of a god by the name of Tammuz. He was worshipped by the Babylonians about 1500 B.C. Funny enough, he was crucified, buried and rose from the dead. Sound familiar? The ancient Babylonians had a three day weeping festival when they would hire professional weepers to weep at certain times of the day. This is all because Tammuz was dead for three days. This confirms that the the jesus myth is really nothing but a myth. A Babylonian fairy tale. There is also problems with other religions. For example there is a prophet and leader of the elchasaites. They are an off shoot of the dsciple of John the baptist. They had a significant leader who has the same titles of Mohammed. The lasty prophet, the messenger of god etc...The problem begins when you find out that this elchasaite leader by the name of Mani lived about 400 hundred years before Mohammed There are other endless myths everywhere. Let us remember what Wood Allen said. HE said that if it turns out there is a God, then he would not neccesarily call him evil. He would at worst describe him as an underachiever. These thoughts have been circulatiing in and around my head while I was painting these works.

Kulay-Diwa is a venue for Philippines and Southeast Asian Contemporary Art. Inaugurated on February 7, 1987, Kulay-Diwa, is strategically located within a cluster of communities South of Manila. It has five independent exhibition areas able to accommodate large-scale works and a garden ideal for programs, performances and sculpture installations. The goal of the gallery is to discover and promote the works of young, talented but deserving Filipino Artists and to foster cultural interaction and exchanges with the local regions and other countries.

Kulay (Colour)

Diwa (Spirit, Thought)