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The Authenticity Zero Collective

MACHINE OF THOUGHTS

Cocoi Base l Gab Brioso l Almi Domingo

Walther Ocampo l Robin Ravago


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Conrad Manila proudly unveils the 33rd edition of its highlyacclaimed

“Of Art and Wine” exhibition series at Gallery C with a

group show by Cocoi Base, Gab Brioso, Almi Domingo, Walther

Ocampo, and Robin Ravago of The Authenticity Zero Collective.

This latest collection features 53 abstract artworks, which invite

guests to view forms and spaces with absolute detachment from

pre-established concepts. First this 2025, this exhibit will present

a fresh perspective to its viewers, through an immersive art

experience.

Of Art and Wine: Machine of Thoughts will be on exhibit from

January 7 to March 8, 2025. The paintings are available

individually for purchase. For more information, please contact

Conrad Manila at +632 8833 9999; Walther Ocampo at

+639052762871; or email Ruston.Dongaol@ConradHotels.com.

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M A C H I N E O F T H O U G H T S

Abstraction ignites speculative possibilities, serving as a

catalyst for The Authenticity Zero Collective (TAZC)’s

exploration of future scenarios within the dynamic

relationship between people, objects, and environments.

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These scenarios may range from how individuals engage

with objects, how objects influence or transform spaces, to

how the concept of an absent object can remain

omnipresent in thought.

The exhibition challenges preconceived frameworks,

stripping away biases and sentimental attachments to

historical or cultural narratives. Instead, it emphasizes the

pure potential of forms, spaces, and ideas to connect in

new, untethered ways. Each piece operates autonomously,

contributing to an evolving system — a Machine of

Thoughts — that continually generates new concepts and

knowledge. In this process, TAZC seeks to question

established norms and open new dialogues about the

future of human interaction with the material and

immaterial world.

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T H E A U T H E N T I C I T Y

Z E R O C O L L E C T I V E

THE AUTHENTICITY ZERO COLLECTIVE is a collaborative

platform where artists and designers probe the status of

local art through non-representational articulations. It

questions the role of context and content in a creative

output, its precedence, or whether it should be treated as

an object independent from style and authorship or vice

versa.

TAZC speculates the future scenarios in the built-fabric of

habitation and urbanism as such, it abhors traditional

historicism as it strives to invent newer ways of seeing,

thinking, scrutinizing, doing, and producing architecture,

design, and the arts. It is diverse in its representation from

single practice, design practitioners, writers, academicians,

to architects, student designers and artists who all share the

common goals. Each entity has the freedom to pursue its

specific individual goal within the sphere of The

Authenticity Zero Collective.

TAZC has exhibited in different venues such as Art Fair

Philippines, Art in the Park, Gateway Gallery, Gateway Art

Fair, Art Camp, The Grey Space, Xavier Art Fair, and at The

Manila Bang Show. Prior to the conception of the

Collective, its members exhibited as a group at the Cultural

Center of the Philippines, De La Salle - College of Saint

Benilde, and Raffles Design Institute.

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COCOI BASE

Cocoi Base is an architect and visual artist based in Bicol. When

architectural concepts cannot be manifested into a physical form due to

limitations of materiality and physics, he draws these ideas on paper and

canvases. His works are visual concepts of structures, machinery, spaces,

events, and projections of how things can be, should have been or as it is,

condensing each subject to its barest and most basic form until only the

essential geometries, composition and color emerge.

His works were exhibited at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, De La

Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Gateway Gallery, Gateway Art Fair, The

Manila Bang Show, Art Camp, The Grey Space, Arte Bettina, Gallerie

Anna, Art Fair Philippines, M Gallery, Savage Mind, and in Art in the Park.

His first solo exhibition Structures and Experience was launched at

Gateway Gallery in 2023. He holds an architecture degree from Adamson

University.

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TINY DWELLINGS 1

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

TINY DWELLINGS 2

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

TINY DWELLINGS 3

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

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TINY DWELLINGS 5

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

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TINY DWELLINGS 6

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

TINY DWELLINGS 7

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

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TINY DWELLINGS 8

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

TINY DWELLINGS 9

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

TINY DWELLINGS 11

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

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TINY DWELLINGS 12

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

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TINY DWELLINGS 13

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

TINY DWELLINGS 14

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

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TINY DWELLINGS 15

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

TINY DWELLINGS 16

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

TINY DWELLINGS 17

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

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TINY DWELLINGS 18

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

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TINY DWELLINGS 19

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

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TINY DWELLINGS 20

Acrylic on Canvas

24" x 24"

2024

PHP 30,000

A MACHINE TO LIVE IN

Acrylic on Canvas

48" x 60"

2024

PHP 150,000

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GAB BRIOSO

Gab Brioso is a designer, artist and

an architect who thinks about design

holistically. Trained and educated in

the discipline of architecture, he

understands the technical and

creative implications of a product; be

it a website, an object, an art piece

or even to the scale of a space. He

takes interest in the intersection of

digital and analog processes.

His passion to enhance people's experience of a design product, both

digitally and physically, is what fuels his work. He holds an architecture

degree from the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde and a master’s degree

in fine arts from the Philippine Women’s University. He is currently teaching

in De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Asia Pacific College, and in Ateneo

de Manila University. He also attended The Brown Bauhaus’ MetaArch

Advanced Course in Modern Aesthetics. His works were exhibited at the

Cultural Center of the Philippines, De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde,

Gateway Gallery, The Manila Bang Show, Art Camp, The Grey Space, Art in

the Park, and Art Fair Philippines. He was a grantee of the Anakbanwa

Creative Residency Program. His first solo exhibition was held at Backroom

Gallery in 2022. He is one of the founding members of The Authenticity

Zero Collective.

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HYPER PROUN 5

Acrylic on 3D printed PLA

and plaster

2 x 2 ft

2024

PHP 40,000

HYPER PROUN 6

Acrylic on 3D printed PLA

and plaster

2 x 2 ft

2024

PHP 40,000

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HYPER PROUN 7

Acrylic on 3D printed PLA

and plaster

2 x 2 ft

2024

PHP 40,000

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ALMI DOMINGO

Almi Domingo is an architect and visual artist. He is a graduate of

Technological Institute of the Philippines - Manila. He is a product of the

MetaArch Program 2016 of The Brown Bauhau Alternative School of

Architecture + Design. His exploration uses etching technique of acrylic

sheets resulting to a dynamic interplay of bold geometric elements. His

works were showcased at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, De La

Salle - College of Saint Benilde, Raffles Design Institute, Gateway Gallery,

Art Camp, Art Fair Philippines and at the Art in the Park. He is a founding

member of The Authenticity Zero Collective.

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RE-013A

Etched on 3mm thk.

Acrylic panel

21"x24"

2023

PHP 30,000

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A FEINT PLAN

Etched on 3mm thk.

Acrylic panel

15"x15"

2021

PHP 25,000

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PEOPLE RUNNING ABOUT

Etched on 3mm thk. Acrylic

panel

15"x15"

2021

PHP 25,000

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WALTHER OCAMPO

Walther Ocampo is an architect, visual artist,

and a pedagogue. For him architecture and

art should act together in an alchemic

platform so as to produce a more poetic

and authentic environment. He has a deep

interest in the language of geometry,

nature, and complex relationship of things

and phenomena. He uses different inquiry

tools (dialectics, metaphysics,

phenomenology, deconstruction) in

navigating the said complexities.

In both architecture and art, he explores new aesthetic and theoretical directions

through speculations, oppositions, diagramming, and re-constructions. This system

manifests in his drawings, paintings, sculptures, and installations. He has exhibitedcurated

at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Museum of Contemporary Art and

Design-Manila, Art Fair Philippines, MoCAF, School of Design and Arts – De La Salle -

College of Saint Benilde, Raffles Design Institute, Eagle Eye Art Gallery, Artablado, 29

Kapitolyo Art Space, 22nd&5th Gallery, Luinette Gallery, R Gallery, Galerie Roberto,

Art Camp, Gateway Gallery, Art in the Park. In 2018, he launched his first solo show

about the type of architecture that cannot be built and must not be built. His sculpture

entry received an Honorable Mention award in the GSIS 2022 National Art

Competition. He was the founding director of The Brown Bauhaus Alternative School

of Architecture + Design, the first of its kind in the Philippines; and he’s the founding

director of The Authenticity Zero Collective. He is currently an assistant professor in the

architecture program of the De La salle-College of Saint Benilde. He holds an

architecture degree from the Technological University of the Philippines and a

graduate degree in architecture education from Mapua Institute of Technology. He

joined and trained in the Visiting School SE Asia Program of the Architectural

Association School of Architecture London, URBEX (Urban Exploration): Seizing the

Emptiness Masterclass by the University of Novi Sad Serbia, and the 16th Venice

Architecture Biennale Philippine Pavilion.

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MECHANICAL KOMOREBI 6

Acrylic, sand on canvas

2 X 4.7 ft

2024

PHP 60,000

MECHANICAL KOMOREBI 7

Acrylic on canvas

3 X 3 ft

2024

PHP 60,000

MECHANICAL KOMOREBI 8

Acrylic, sand on canvas

2 X 3 ft

2024

PHP 50,000

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MECHANICAL KOMOREBI 9

Acrylic, sand on canvas

2 X 2 ft

2024

PHP 45,000

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MECHANICAL KOMOREBI 10

Acrylic, sand on canvas

2 X 2 ft

2024

PHP 45, 000

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FIELD OF RECOLLECTIONS 1

Acrylic, sand on canvas

3 X 4 ft

2024

PHP 85,000

FIELD OF RECOLLECTIONS 2

Acrylic, sand on canvas

3 X 4 ft

2024

PHP 85,000

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EURHYTMY 1.2

Watercolor on cold pressed paper

4 X 6 in, excluding frame

2021

PHP 15,000

EURHYTMY 1.A

Watercolor on cold pressed paper

4 X 6 in, excluding frame

2021

PHP 15,000

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EURHYTMY 1.B

Watercolor on cold pressed paper

4 X 6 in, excluding frame

2021

PHP 15,000

EURHYTMY 1.D

Watercolor on cold pressed paper

4 X 6 in, excluding frame

2021

PHP 15,000

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EURHYTMY 1.E

Watercolor on cold pressed paper

4 X 6 in, excluding frame

2021

PHP 15,000

EURHYTMY 1.F

Watercolor on cold pressed paper

4 X 6 in, excluding frame

2021

PHP 15,000

EURHYTMY 1.L

Watercolor on cold pressed paper

4 X 6 in, excluding frame

2021

PHP 15,000

EURHYTMY 1.N

Watercolor on cold pressed paper

4 X 6 in, excluding frame

2021

PHP 15,000

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EURHYTMY 1.P

Watercolor on cold pressed paper

4 X 6 in, excluding frame

2021

PHP 15,000

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EURHYTMY 1.S

Watercolor on cold pressed paper

4 X 6 in, excluding frame

2021

PHP 15,000

EURHYTMY 1.V

Watercolor on cold pressed paper

4 X 6 in, excluding frame

2021

PHP 15,000

EURHYTMY 1.X

Watercolor on cold pressed paper

4 X 6 in, excluding frame

2021

PHP 15,000

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EURHYTMY 7.1

Pen and ink on heavy paper

8.3 X 11.7 in. excluding frame

2024

PHP 18,000

EURHYTMY 7.2

Pen and ink on heavy paper

8.3 X 11.7 in. excluding frame

2024

PHP 18,000

EURHYTMY 7.3

Pen and ink on heavy paper

8.3 X 11.7 in. excluding frame

2024

PHP 18,000

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EURHYTMY 7.4

Pen and ink on heavy paper

8.3 X 11.7 in. excluding frame

2024

PHP 18,000

EURHYTMY 7.5

Pen and ink on heavy paper

8.3 X 11.7 in. excluding frame

2024

PHP 18,000

EURHYTMY 7.6

Pen and ink on heavy paper

8.3 X 11.7 in. excluding frame

2024

PHP 18,000

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ROBIN RAVAGO

Robin Ravago is an architect and artist based in Manila. His works revolve

around the formal qualities of objects and its potential relationships -

explored through drawings, photographs, installations, and objects. He

already participated in numerous exhibitions at De La Salle - College of

Saint Benilde, Escolta Collective, MoCAF, Art in the Park, Art Fair

Philippines, The Grey Space, Tagaytay Art Fair, The Manila Bang Show,

Art Camp, Backroom Gallery, Gateway Gallery, and at the Cultural Center

of the Philippines. He attended The Brown Bauhaus’ MetaArch Advanced

Course in Modern Aesthetics. He holds a degree in architecture from the

De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde. He is currently teaching

architectural theory and design in the architecture programs of Asia

Pacific College and De La Salle College of Saint Benilde.

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CONSTRUCTIONAL 01

Acrylic on Wood

60 cm x 120 cm x 20 cm

2024

PHP 75,000

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CONSTRUCTIONAL 02

Acrylic on Wood

40 cm x 180 cm x 20 cm

2024

PHP 75,000

CONSTRUCTIONAL 03

Acrylic on Wood

15 cm x 200 cm x 5 cm

2024

PHP 60,000

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