linking lightwave to lightwave and calling it, “painting”
Chati Coronel, Artist
February 20-23, 2025
Exhibition: ArtfairPH with Silverlens Gallery Manila
Featured Works:
Light Fountain 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 60"X72"
Device for Seeing 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 48"X60"
Arcturus 2024 Acrylic on Canvas 72"X60"
Eyes do not see. Eyes receive light and the brain pieces together a memory of light and we call it *seeing*. There is a secret place between the receiving of light and the memory of light and somewhere in that space is truth.
After receiving a degree in Architecture from The University of Santo Tomas in Manila in 1991, Chati Coronel deviated from that path and built in its stead a painting practice that has since spanned 3 decades. Focusing on the more supernal potential of both art and artistic practice, Coronel uses the process of painting to play with the subtle transfer of information from the immaterial to the material and back again.
Coronel’s pursuit of deeper universal truth through painting has evolved into a process she calls, Figurative Spatialism. By painting human figures devoid of the vestiges of age, race or personality, she leaves the human silhouette open to reveal the layers of universal meaning underneath it. Coronel’s work has been exhibited at Frieze, Art Basel, The Armory Show and at galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Manila, Singapore, Korea and Hong Kong. Chati Coronel lives and works in Toronto and is represented by Silverlens Galleries.
