PAINTERLY PARALLELS

For Fundacion Sansó’s first exhibit of the year, the works of Juvenal Sansó find kinship with those of Kenneth Montegrande.

- RICKY FRANCISCO

Fundacion Sansó is mandated to preserve the legacy of its artist-namesake, Juvenal Sansó, whose works find home in such impressive galleries as New York’s MoMA and Paris’ Musée d’Art Moderne. To open its slate of exhibits this year, Fundacion partners with Galerie Joaquin anew, and pairs the works of the Spanish master with that of contemporary artist Kenneth Montegrande.

The Filipino artist is the youngest to have contributed to the Malacañan Palace collection, which he did so in 2019. Montegrande is the also first Filipino and Southeast Asian whose works are included prized acquisitions of Japanese mega collector and Contemporart Art Foundation director Yusaku Maezawa.

Fundacion Sansó museum director Ricky Francisco lays down the parallels between the two artists for this exhibit, titled “The Beautiful Expanse of Sea and Sky,” and the juxtaposed works separated by a generation.

IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES

Serendipities, in life and sensibility, are some of the many things which happen to tie this exhibition together. Looking through their life experiences, we see parallels in life, not just in practice. Both are artists with international audiences; with Sansó having had an active practice in France, Spain, and the US, while Montegrande has an Asian audience.