ARTISTS

Mark Nicdao

Mark Nicdao’s presentation at Asia Now Paris of these works painted in the French capital in the recent months is showing a significant evolution since his last solo show earlier this year in Manila.

“I never thought I would open up to colors and shadows to such a degree. My collectors will be surprised”, he points out.

This new collection indeed displays new purposes, violent emotions exploding in large spirals to the infinite, which the artist then interprets by covering them through a microscopic approach. Let’s not forget the pictorial obsession of the photographer: a passion for detail.

Anatomy of the hidden self, solid structures swallowed by nuclear disintegration, remaining volutes after the inner Big Bang, that is what it is all about and needs to be done again and again.

Influences? Mark takes a breath, but no answer is coming, because there is no answer to such a theoretical question. Not even expressionism? Subconsciously? No, it comes from inside, a need, an emergency. It is soothing once it is finished, and another painting has to be done again.

It is about removing the fear.