...and the gods made love Collage

1974, manila, Philippines

Working both as a visual artist and a graphic designer, Wesley Valenzuelas mixed media works are characterized by its use of graphic figures integrated into a milieu of dissonant objects and characters. Stoically placed amidst obscure landscapes, one would be reminded of the grime, chaos and visual overloads of urban life. Utilizing an array of inter-disciplinary mediums and techniques such as painting, collage, digital-imaging and photography, typography, and even sculpture, Valenzuelas artwork conjures up images of human mutation, social transformation and mass consumerism; a result of his ceaseless immersion and ingestion of popular culture, religion, technology and personal history. These imagery, poignant and yet detached, reflects the artists preoccupation and reaction towards an emerging cultural alteration thats been taking place, dizzying in its pace and intrusive in its approach.