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Bat Soup Painters: Louie Cordero and Mariano Ching Collaborate in Manila
MO Space // December 05, 2020 - December 31, 2020
December 16, 2020 | in Painting
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The levels to which the current global situation is affecting all aspects of our lives come to light when looking at the logistics required to make the collaborative exhibition of Mariano Ching and Louie Cordero possible.
Bat Soup Painters is the second collaborative exhibition by the two Philippino artists, and the lengths they had to go in order to make it happen is almost as impressive as the series of canvases painted for this exhibition.
While checking with our friends around the globe during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic earlier this year, we got in touch with Louie Cordero in the Philippines. At the time, the artist was just getting back to his routine after a big move and setting up a new studio and creating an impromptu series of small works through which he raised funds for the purcha