12/05/2026
“In Full Bloom” by Kenneth Montegrande runs at Galerie Joaquin Rockwell.🎨
There will be an Artist Reception this Friday, May 15 at 5pm.
Arrives at a quieter and more reflective threshold in a career long defined by turbulent seas, luminous horizons, and gestural abstraction. Timed with Flores de Mayo, the exhibition marks the artist’s first sustained engagement with floral imagery—though, as with much of Montegrande’s practice, the shift feels less like a rupture than a natural evolution.
For over a decade, Montegrande has cultivated a visual language rooted in emotional weather: dramatic cloudscapes, radiant seascapes, and faith-inflected abstractions that have drawn comparisons to J.M.W. Turner for their atmospheric handling of light. Yet flowers have quietly existed within the artist’s orbit for years. Raised among the gardens tended by his grandmother and aunts in Ermita, Manila, Montegrande approaches the floral form not as decoration, but as metaphor—an image of endurance, transformation, and spiritual becoming.
The exhibition will run from May 12-23, 2026 at Galerie Joaquin Rockwell.
📍 The gallery is located at R3 Level, Power Plant Mall, Rockwell Center, Makati.
📩 For inquiries, contact Galerie Joaquin at +63 915 414 5502 or email [email protected]