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FILIPINO artist Andres Barrioquinto returns to Singapore after a four-year hiatus with a solo show. Besides new paintings, he launches a series of sculptures in The Scream of the Butterfly - showing the subjects he first used during his early days as a painter. The sculptures are made from resin and finished with urethane and acrylic paint. These will be shown alongside portraits overlaid with colourful patterns and Japanese print motifs with Barrioquinto's trademark mix of eclectic cultural elements, hollow facial features and surrealistic qualities. "The use of colours just came naturally, it really depends on my mood. When I was younger, I was fond of dark colours to complement my subjects, but I noticed that in the past three years, my paintings have become more colourful," he says, referring to the Japanese Series, Bird Series, and Butterfly series.

Most of his paintings are based on personal experiences as a person, painter and student - lately as a married man - and dwell on human passions. Butterflies and masks are symbols he has added in the last two years, with butterflies being analogous to the trials and tribulations of marriage and lovers' fights. "Some of my works are inverted. And I employ layering, using shaped canvases that I place on top of one another to include a 3D element/" he says.

Andres Barroquinto's works can be seen at Galerie Sogan & Art from now until Sept 28, at 16 Mohamed Sultan Road, tel: 6440-4886. www.soganart.com.