Sept. 11-Oct. 3
Born in 1983, Pow Martinez is a rising star of the Philippine pop art scene, having won the Ateneo Art Award in 2010 despite his bold work being far from the hyper-realistic paintings that were then dominating the country’s art market. With skeletons, maggots, grim reapers and other macabre characters as subjects, Martinez’s themes are dark, but his comic-book style gives his work a humorous slant — even when creatures are chained by the neck to trees.
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