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Hapiheart consists of different parts that made it unique to how it looks that made it survive the conquest of the Hapimeel Universe.
Quatro Hapimeel’s work can be described as a hodgepodge of saturated grotesque and pastel cartoons. During his years studying Multimedia Arts in Mapua, he learned creating film production, animation, and illustration. These skills made him create a character, a smiling heart which lives in different forms, from static painting and sculptures to moving images and sound explorations. He is adept in using different mediums such as acrylic, scraps of cloth, masks, animation and assemblage. He started exploring appliqué, machine embroidery, quilting and other sewing technique on his artworks influenced by the time he's working with clothing brands where he thought of recycling old clothes and sheets.
Quatro Hapimeel is a Filipino multimedia artist who has exhibited in different galleries in Metro Manila, also in Singapore and London. Also been collaborating with other brands, events and publications for illustrations, art installations and murals since 2014. He is based in Makati City, Philippines. Graduated in Mapua University last 2015 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Multimedia Arts and Sciences. He is part of CAVITY COLLECTIVE, a familia of urban artists that are based in the Philippines where he learned creating murals and other techniques using acrylic and spray paint.
His works usually revolves around popular culture and fuelled by the different situation of his surrounding and his past experiences. Influenced by the strong ones, melancholy, death, nostalgia and disconnect. With these, the smiling heart character made him represent himself and also other people he met along his journey of life. People who are strong despite of each tragedy and loss. Expressing through heart grenades what people who have inner rage feels like.
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