'Beautiful things can be vessels for painful stories' - Pio Abad | Tate

[@grecow3484]

He speaks beautifully.

[@miriamcjackson706]

I do. I wanna know. I wanna experience this particular persons artistic lens. I can feel the value of what Pio Abad is unearthing in a visceral way. I remember the Marcuses and remember the vitriol over her obsession, I remember feeling that repulsion too … and now I find myself examining it. I have been to the Philippines and felt like both there was something oddly familiar and yet distinct from my own roots. I am now drawing parallels to my families own history and the embodiment of that. This is incredible. For me this is more than art … this is about something that is very vital that intersects (not just with me) but with me, being given a platform and visibility. Perhaps this is the one true art for me in this moment. Because it’s new. And revelatory. This is transcendent.

[@thecinematicmind]

Display and recreation was spectacular Pio Abad.

[@aatt3209]

Speaking specifically as a Chinese descendent myself, given that I rarely meet Chinese who protect and treasure the artistic heritage this old culture has to offer, has led me to appreciate whoever took possessions and preserved any Chinese artifacts in the past for later generations to study and see. This way, in some important sense, any museum and private collectors have allowed many cultural heritages to continue to exist.

[@Nifemi_art]

❤

[@sebastiaoedsonmacedo7950]

A lot of conceptualization over material history but zero inventiveness in the drawing itself, to the point that without his explanation his art has no meaning and breaks no new grounds.

[@clairec5836]

Ehh but isn’t that most of contemporary art anyway

[@ebsergent]

Love to see what you create, and your courage in sharing it with the world 👍

[@JJONNYREPP]

'Beautiful things can be vessels for painful stories' - Pio Abad | Tate 0855am 1.8.24 i always get the impression these guys are just old admin staff of the BBC or some media rep company thrust in front of a camera to follow their painterly hobbies or some such. that block of flats was once featured in the tv show: minder or the sweeney or sommat like that... i'm never convinced by artists - they're always faux and totally insincere which allows me to muse upon the mispent notion of their being total con merchants or just acting out a bad joke (rather like the monsters and overlords they utilize as inspiration for "parody" or "serious" scrutiny)...

[@dabzvapelord]

L take

[@JeanLooksPicard]

Art is about communication so isn't it to be expected that the most effective custodians for these roles be such people who can through their passion bridge the works to the public. As a layman these would just be beautiful dead artefacts but through the presenters "painterly hobby" a story emerges wherein lies their cultural value. With such a cynical view you could almost say the same thing about any other person they might have chosen to present this and the notion taken to the extreme would render such works a valueless hobby.

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@JeanLooksPicard 'Beautiful things can be vessels for painful stories' - Pio Abad | Tate 1.8.24 1514pm you mean art is a closed shop, an in-joke or pretentious excursion re: a langauge those in the know can only comprehend. granted, the joy might be in decoding anything the viewer sees or encounters or is confrotned with but, in the main, the local pleb aint interested in that kindda caper. he wants the immediacy of the image, treatise and all.................. in one fell swoop!!! if you have studied art and history and the theories behind any local university syllabus then you might also end up being cyncial... it ends up being waffle, nothing more. and the same tired old fried egg of: time place belonging and moment end up meaning sod all when every exhibtion and every aesthetic goal are presented within that staid template. ok, so dada is dead and surealism, for all the laughter it brought me, seemd to crack far too many skulls than was envisgaed - the halls of the mad man brought to the art house says a lot, wouldn't you say? nothing is that simple, i concur. follow the bouncing ball, the local authorities say, as they try to reign (sic) in any outre thought processes an arist might have tried to render upon a wall or via the cinema screen.......................... as for art being the collected works of a valueless hobby, thus whittling it down to mere Naïve art, well that's something to muse upon if, as your damnable beuys said: everyone an artist... and as warhol whittered: everyone will suffer their insane 15mins of fame....... i think we worked out that expressing one's inner turmoil or the dealing with the projected insanity of another (the easy way out) is all that art amounts to. i think we need to overhaul tha protest aspect of art as it has lost it's flavour on that score unless, as you say, the inner meaning and subversion are to be read - only by the initiated, though.. which, again, renders the work: " a valueless hobby"... i mean, who wants to listen to a load of hot air or watch hours of cruddy film when the language of that art is only comprehended by the artist and his drinking buddy? naww, i wil leave you hep and with-it kids to it. art isn't the angst, the incessant refrian of: what's it mean? is the curse and the bane of everything you care to present..... take mate on a date and expatiate upon the inner turmoil your art represents whether that be the curt it means: nothing to the 10 hour epic lecture regards the rank and buggered profundity of being affected. ahahahahah..... i amw anderign with an affetced air, my kerchief dangling from my hipo pocket. i didn;t kill i didnt kill him the affected young man wails. and falls slumped into a tatty chair, his audience rapt by the reprise. the reprise which means sod all to the people trying to equate a picture with the literal death of soemone the artist had never even met. the conundrum, madam.