Following is a review of work by the artist titled "WIRE TUAZON: Cave to Canvas", Tall Gallery, Dec. 6, 2012 - Jan. 2, 2013. The review was published by Finale Art File, a Philippine art gallery.

Describing the exhibit as a "time-based excavation, partly a poetic reverie and an extended meditation for the immanent present," Wire Tuazon assembles objects and images spanning different contexts and time frames to "create a detached reality," embarking on a process of historical re-conxtextualization and imagining the future.

The show is comprised of a series of large-scale installation works: a set of holographic diagrams, a skymap installation of the Summer Triangle and a massive sculpture of an Apatosaurus in the center of the gallery space. Cave to Canvas is filled with rich and complex allusions to the different images that have defined the history of humanity: the constellations Vega (Eyes of the Bull), Deneb (Birdman) and Altair (Bird) that mirror the earliest human-made images discovered in caves such as Lascaux, the icons of Modernism, the archival objects birthed from this marriage between the past and present.

"The world is defined by our visualizations of it," the artist writes, and the show attempts to visualize "our slim share of the cosmic timeline" as a reaction to our vanishing capacity for wonder. "Art is a physical arena of various permutations in unfamiliar confines, but [it is] also as a site of struggle and a repository of understanding," he notes. The show is a means to resuscitate this search for meaning, drawing on the concepts of periodization, transcience and fragility to challenge the viewer into looking back and forth at the flow of history, and reflect on its eventual trajectory.

Tuazon writes:
"The history of art is a sequence of transgressing boundaries, while the modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and the many specifics of our outgrown map of consciousness, like many things that we have long forgotten. It deemed to have reached a point of aesthetic exhaustion, resulting in our vanishing capacity for wonder.

In life, we often search for unities amidst the disjuncture, looking for unseen intersections. We need to understand and in order to understand, we do not just adapt to the subject but question it. Human awareness replaced by the questioning of truth and science - which requires evidence and religion gate-wayed to a new horizon of mysticism. While the evolution of our being undergoes a deeper actuation after the passing of time and erosion of memory, art is whatever remains—and this is changing with us as we move out in relation to our present existence, free to shape our own future."

Source:
http://finaleartfile.com/wpsite/about-finale/