Incandescent Blooms

Michael Pastorizo is a master of abstraction when it comes to florid visualizations. The artist’s deep inclination for the natural world and its riches continuously blossoms into different facets and nuances of high color, technique, and form – seeming to depict the wondrous aspects of nature as well as its seasons. For “Incandescent Blooms”, his latest solo exhibition, Pastorizo depicts visionary concepts of an ideal summer, winter, autumn, and spring. With parallel hues and gradients pertaining to the seasons, Pastorizo creatively innovates the perception of nature and its accord with human existence.

Further, the artist’s recognizable composition, excluding all extraneous details of the external world, focuses on a moment of elegance, harmony, and dignity. The paintings are still moments when the dimension of the outside world falls away. They illustrate Michael Pastorizo’s desire and hope for the possibility of that kind of order in the world, especially during this current grim phase in society.

Ostensibly mimicking the motion of sprawling beams of light, the collection provides a sense of renewed luminescence as it reaches out to the viewers’ perceptions, compelling us further to gaze deeper into the seemingly endless infinite. The works exhibited serve as a commemoration as well as an acclamation to the passing of time, embracing the fleeting and the lasting, as we, and the world, watch in awe of its beauty.

Michael Pastorizo took up Accountancy, Business and Management (ABM) in college. His career later on, however, took on a rather different path, fated or not. In 2000, he started to work for an artist as a canvas maker. He later on worked for different artists over the next 15 years. Through his stint with artists over the years, he learned several art techniques and styles. He learned how to use oil and acrylic for paintings, silkscreen printing, making sculptures, molding and casting, among others. He then started to work on abstract paintings and later on honed his unique techniques.

“Incandescent Blooms” by Michael Pastorizo will be on view at Galleria Nicolas Manila Bay from February 10 - 19, 2023. The gallery is located at 2/F, Filipino Village, Ayala Malls Manila Bay, Diosdado Macapagal Blvd, Parañaque. For inquiries, contact Galleria Nicolas Manila Bay at +63 7746 2466, or email gallerianicolasbayarea@gmail.com.