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    RONALD VENTURA

    Dec 06, 2021 1 minute

    The artist Ronald Ventura has won many awards, but his most notable recognition might be in breaking through the competitive, sold for US$1million at the Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings auction in Hong Kong. This is the most that any Southeast Asian work has gone for from a modern, living artist—one who continues to live and work in the Philippines. Ventura dishes out a whiff of his Manila culture, pleasant or not, in his art, with his signature strokes: a mix of realism with graffiti, cartoons and religious iconography. From the Third World, he projects the human condition as though it were high-definition animation, and the First World pays to view it on demand. He has participated in the 2009 Prague Biennale.

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