Cosmic Concerns: Nena Saguil & Fadjar Sidik

Lumena Auctions and Art Agenda are pleased to jointly present the exhibition, Cosmic Concerns: Nena Saguil & Fadjar Sidik, which runs at Lumena Auction’s brand-new gallery at Mahogany Place, Cebu, from June 28 to July 12, 2024. This landmark exhibition features two of Southeast Asia’s leading 20th-century painters, each making significant contributions to abstract art in the region. It marks the first time both Saguil and Sidik’s works are juxtaposed in one exhibition and the first time both artists’ works are shown in Cebu.

At the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale, both Nena Saguil and Fadjar Sidik are represented by a work each on loan from the Philippine and Indonesian national collections, respectively. They are the only two 20th-century artists from Southeast Asia among 37 others featured in the abstraction section of the Biennale’s main exhibition, Foreigners Everywhere.

In Cebu—a city with tourism and maritime significance comparable to Venice—a larger collection of over a dozen works by Nena Saguil and Fadjar Sidik has been assembled, creating an unlikely but memorable encounter between the two artists. Seeing their works side by side, Cosmic Concerns invites audiences to explore the cosmic imagination of Saguil and Sidik, revealing how their artistic practices transcend time and place to resonate with the universal human quest for meaning and connection amidst the vastness of the cosmos.

For media inquiries, please contact Alyssa Selanova at alyssa@lumenaauctions.com (Philippines) or Jessie Lim at info@artagendasea.org (Indonesia and International).