Embracing Transfiguration, 2023
Joshua Limon Palisoc

Sculpture : steel, stainless steel

30 x 21 x 20 cm 11.8 x 8.3 x 7.9 inch

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30 x 21 x 20 cm 11.8 x 8.3 x 7.9 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Artwork location: Italy

This beautifully crafted metal sculpture displays a human figure holding itself together. Each piece of metal rod is carefully bent into shape and welded together carefully. The rods capture the “labas", the fragile, light, fibers of the flesh. It is a catharsis of the human body. The sculpture displays a beautiful paradox between the transitory and the permanent. It's dynamic composition invites viewers to ponder the balance between organic life and artificial constructs. The piece stands as a testament to modern artistic exploration. The unique material's and shapes make this piece so special.

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Tobian Art Gallery • Italy

Artsper seller since 2024

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Philippines  • 1980

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Joshua Limon Palisoc is a Visual Artist hailing form Nueva Ecija, Phillipines.

He explores how the body and its nuances can be instruments to lay narratives of internal phenomena and how they are influenced by external elements: identity, morality, sexuality, freedom and self actualization shaped and challenged by social constructs like religion and cultural norms. He recurrently presents the body as a vessel of the soul, a reflection of what is inside, a microcosm of the universe and contradictions. His own Sympathetic Magic, a ritualisitic experience of transferring his own essence to an inanimate object, creating form allows him to make extensions of himself, project, observe and understand repressed emotions, desires and state of mind. The figures range from mindful observations to abstracted representations. Each piece of metal rod is bent to shape and welded together to capture the “labas", the fragile fibers of the flesh, a catharsis playing a beautiful paradox between the transitory and the permanent.

Awards and achievements:
2013-2016 Katibayan ng Kagitingan (University Scholar), UP Diliman, QC
2015 Best Intern, XS Multimedia, Timorg Avenue, Quezon City
2015 Thesis Grantee, TBWA/Santiago Mangada Puno, Makati City
2016 Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of FIne Arts Major in Visual
Communications, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City
2018 TUKLAS Artist Discovery Program Grantee, Eskinita Gallery, Makati City
2022 Espasyong Bayan Masterclass Grantee, Los Banos, Laguna

Exhibitions:
2013-2014 SaloSalo, Group Exhibition, J Studio, Taguig City
2015 Influx, Group Exhibition, Pinto Art Museum, Antipolo
2016 Art in the Park, Group Exhibition, Salcedo Village, Makati City
2017 MalikMata, Group Exibition, Pinto Art Musem, Antipolo City
2017 Lilok, Group Exhibition, Eskinita Gallery, Makati City
2017 SaloSalo, Group Exhibition, J Studio, Makati City
2018 It is What It Isn't Group Exhibition, District Gallery, Quezon City
2018 Shattered Reflections, Group Exhibition, Metro Gallery, San Juan City
2018 TUKLAS, Artist Discovery Program Culminating Group Exhibition,
Eskinita Gallery, Makati City
2019 Story Scapes, Group Exhibition, Galerie Roberto, Muntinlupa City
2019 Connected Roots, Two-Man Exhibition, Eskinita Gallery, Makati City
2019 M, Group Exhibition, Tagaytay Contemporary, Tagaytay City
2019 Pensive Junctures, Group Exhibition, Altro Mondo Gallery, Makati City
2020 Art Fair Philippines, Group Exhibition, Gallery Roberto, Makati City
2020 Art Fair Philippines, Group Exhibition, Eskinita Gallery, Makati City
2020 3D Visions, Group Exhibition, Arte Bettina, Makati City
2020 Ephemeral Vessels, Solo Exhibition, Pinto Art Museum, Antipolo City
2021 Ugat, Group Exhibition, Galerie Roberto, Muntinlupa City
2021 Significant Otherness, Group Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2022 Lay of the Land, Group Exhibition, Eskinita Art Farm, Tanauan Batangas
2022 Tahanan ng Makasalanan at Banal, Solo Exhibition, Pinto Art Museum,
Antipolo City
2023 Espasyong Bayan, Group Exchibition, Artist Inc., Los Banos, Laguna
2023 Pinto Underwater Sculpture Musem for Marine Ecosystem Regeneration,
Sitio Remedios Heritage Village, Currimao, Ilocos Norte

He collaborates with the Tobian Art Gallery since 2023.

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