Concrete Playground

If you thought Abstract Art was a movement relegated to the history books and the minds of hairless historians at the end of the 1950s you would be right, and wrong. Thankfully history is not a stop and start game; the emergence of one thing does not force the cessation of another. There are of course many histories happening simultaneously, propelled and sustained through various sources and cultural artefacts.

To coincide with the Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, Slot window gallery is presenting Philippine Abstraction – featuring work from the ‘grandfather’ of the genre Hernando. R Ocampo (acclaimed as the founder of a new method of abstraction that absorbs science fiction, fantasy, as well as flora and fauna) alongside the younger artist MMYu.