Unearthed

Nature’s phenomenal tenacity is the inspiration of Perfecto Palero Jr.’s latest exhibit titled “Unearthed”. As a visual artist, Palero aims to depict the permanence and impermanence of the natural world by portraying nature in motion in his paintings. With his unique arrangement of rocks and flowers, the artist paints nature’s beauty as omnipresent, tenacious, and ever changing.

For this exhibit, Palero explores the contrast between his two main subjects-- revealing their complex, vibrant, and often surprising micro-landscapes. His signature flora emerging from rocks evoke the beauty and magnificence of nature, conveying notions of strength and resilience in any condition.

The works for “Unearthed” are portrayals of small corners of a landscape – the graphic nature of earth, with its contrast of colors, light, and shadow. The paintings highlight textures in the flowers along with patterns of stones. It is a convergence of graphic shapes, symbols, and gestured abstraction, driven by the artist’s constant search for the unfamiliar and uncanny. Perfecto Palero Jr. strives to create images that present different views of familiar objects, encouraging the viewer to unearth a new way of perceiving things.

Perfecto “Buboy” G. Palero (b. 1980) is the President of Mustra, a Morong Rizal Artist Group. Last 2012, Best Western Premier F1 Hotel commissioned Palero, along with 3 other artists, to come up with paintings exclusively for the hotel. The commissioned artists delivered approximately a substantial number of paintings which are now on display in the hotel’s 243 rooms. He was also a semi-finalist at the Metrobank Arts and Design Excellence (MADE) in 2010.

“Unearthed” by Perfecto Palero Jr. will be on view from July 1 to 12, 2022, with the Artist Reception scheduled on July 12. Galerie Raphael U.P. Town Center is located at 2/F Phase 2 U.P. Town Center, Katipunan Ave., Diliman, Quezon City. For inquiries, contact +63 (2) 8247-1109 or email info@galerieraphael.com.ph.