HARD PROBLEMS

New paintings by ARGIE BANDOY +

collaborative works with BUD OMENG

January 27 - March 3, 2019

Exhibition Catalog
HARD PROBLEMS

New paintings by ARGIE BANDOY +

collaborative works with BUD OMENG

It’s a form of solution when i feel trapped in the process of painting. It is at

first problematic, but eventually I come to terms with it without anything much
said and done but a few accidental stains, loose brushstrokes, and sometimes
adding collage into the canvas. ~ AB

Painting involves a process that allows a deeper introspection to digest hard

problems, providing a more profound understanding of the artist’s philosophical
mission, thus, discernment is refined on arriving at solutions.

In Hard Problems, Argie Bandoy continues to explore and question the act
of painting, treating it as a difficult situation and delightfully playing outside
conventional ideas to solve it. He purposely rejects to operate within the
confines of detailed, technical proficiency in favor of more primal gestures and
deliberate crudity.

Bandoy’s recent works are more loose and open, veering towards post-
painterly minimal abstraction, but still retaining an uninhibited vulgarity that
provokes critical dialogue to the viewer, combined with his signature drab color
palette that evokes a sense of both gloom and grit, ominous and uplifting in
equal measure.

Displayed as well among the works is a collaboration with young artist Bud
Omeng, with both painters sharing a common rabid visual language and a
pleasant repulsion to the prevalent “taste” in decorative mastery that plagues
contemporary art.

Hard Problems reestablishes the artist as underdog hero, channeling and

concretizing his frustrations onto canvas, reframing traditional concepts while
rejecting the pleasures which come from the approval of the majority - subtly
stabbing the viewer’s subconscious with a rusted butter knife.

Words by Arturo Flecci

Exhibition Catalog
 HARD PROBLEM no.1

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil and varnish on canvas

Size: 4.5 x 6 feet

Price: Php 116,500

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 HARD PROBLEM no.2

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil and photo collage on canvas

Size: 34 x 40 inches

Price: Php 66,500

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ARTIFACT OF BOREDOM

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 34 x 40 inches

Price: Php 65,000

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 UNTITLED

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 34 x 40 inches

Price: Php 65,000

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 UNTITLED

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 34 x 40 inches

Price: Php 65,000

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 SHRINK FROM PHATOS

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil, spraypaint and varnish on canvas

Size: 3 x 4 feet

Price: Php 83,000

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 UNTITLED (Cow)

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2018

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 30 x 48 inches

Price: Php 66,666

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UNTITLED (Coffin)

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2018

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 24 x 48 inches

Price: Php 58,000

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 UNTITLED

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2018

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 24 x 31 inches + frame

Price: Php 45,000

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 UNTITLED

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 24 x 31 inches + frame

Price: Php 45,000

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 ZERO

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2018

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 24 x 31 inches + frame

Price: Php 45,000

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 UNTITLED

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2018

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 24 x 31 inches + frame

Price: Php 45,000

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 KNIT KNAT (Diptych)

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2018

Medium: Oil on bristol + Oil on canvas

Size: 25 x 31 inches + 4 x 5 feet

Price: Php 116,500 (set)

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 UNTITLED (triptych)

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2018

Medium: Oil and enamel on canvas

Size: 111.5 x 72 inches

Price: Php 267,000

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PAINTING AND ITS LACK OF FUNCTION
(diptych)

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil and spraypaint on canvas

Size: 9 x 4 feet

Price: Php 150,000

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 CAMP CRAFT ver.2
(Multipanel)

Argie Bandoy

Year: 2019

Medium: Mixed media on canvas

Size: 4 x 11 feet

Price: Php 150,000

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 BANDOMENG
untitled (between bricks and bones)

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 24 x 26.5 inches

Price: Php 50,000

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 BANDOMENG
(ostrich)
untitled

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 24 x 26.5 inches

Price: Php 50,000

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 BANDOMENG
untitled (boner)

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 24 x 26.5 inches

Price: Php 50,000

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 BANDOMENG
(holocaust)
untitled

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2018

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 4 x 5 feet

Price: Php 115,000

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 BANDOMENG
(bangungot)
untitled

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 4 x 5 feet

Price: Php 100,000

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 BANDOMENG
untitled

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2018

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 9 x 12 inches + frame

Price: Php 41,500

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 BANDOMENG
untitled

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2018

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 9 x 12 inches + frame

Price: Php 41,500

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 BANDOMENG I

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 9 x 12 inches

Price: Php 25,000

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 BANDOMENG II

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 9 x 12 inches

Price: Php 25,000

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 BANDOMENG III

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 9 x 12 inches

Price: Php 25,000

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 BANDOMENG IV

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 9 x 12 inches

Price: Php 25,000

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 BANDOMENG V

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 9 x 12 inches

Price: Php 25,000

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 BANDOMENG VI

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 9 x 12 inches

Price: Php 25,000

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 BANDOMENG VII

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 9 x 12 inches

Price: Php 25,000

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 BANDOMENG VIII

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 9 x 12 inches

Price: Php 25,000

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 BANDOMENG IX

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 9 x 12 inches

Price: Php 25,000

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BANDOMENG SET (I - IX)

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on bristol

Size: 9 x 12 inches per piece

Price: Php 165,000 (Set of 9)

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 BANDOMENG
(smoker)
untitled

Argie Bandoy x Bud Omeng

Year: 2019

Medium: Oil on pastel on bristol

Size: 9 x 12 inches

Price: Php 25,000

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