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May 9 | 6pm
Exhibition runs from
May 9 – 23, 2012

Main gallery

Great Ghastly at Artinformal convenes multiple voices addressing a variation of the single artistic format of Drawing. The artists are a group of angry, angsty (young-ish) men at the verge of a vacillant Eden – whose works contain a reverberation of suspended youth and a strong sense of Coming-of-Age, a strong sense of a coming of Something. Victor Balanon, Allan Balisi, Buen Calubayan, Ernest Concepcion, Kiko Escora, David Griggs, England Hidalgo, Jacob Lindo, Okto, Ian Quirante, Mark Salvatus, Gani Simpliciano, Marvin Tojos, Alvin Zafra, and Costantino Zicarelli are not surveying particular trends in drawing. Neither is Great Ghastly about following a contemporary investigation of the activity’s formal limitations. They look at Drawing as an act, a collaborative tool, a study, a surface, a trace, and most of all a compulsion to run counter to everyone’s interests except theirs. It is in this compulsion that bootleg chapters and materials of an artistic practice regain a crucial dimension to artists’ other interests and inclinations which inform their works as a whole.

The spectacle in Great Ghastly is made up of good omens – Generation X and music genres detonated, arbitrary topography and black and white redux, plus the grey areas kept as if they are ledgers of an analysand. Great Ghastly is initiated by Sidd Perez and Costantino Zicarelli.

May 3 at 6:00pm until June 11 at 6:00pm

Curated by Manuel Ocampo

May 3 – June 11 2012

Poklong Anading/ Valeria Cavestany/Lena Cobangbang/Louie Cordero/Maria Cruz/ Gaston Damag/ Dex Fernandez/Arvin Flores/David Griggs/ Maria Jeona/Robert Langennegger/ Romeo Lee/Pow Martinez/Manuel Ocampo/Jason Oliveria/Carlo Ricafort/ Timo Roter/Gerardo Tan/MM Yu

Bangkok, Thailand – H Gallery Bangkok is very pleased to announce the first major exhibition of contemporary art from the Philippines in Thailand. Curated by the renowned artist Manuel Ocampo, Bastards of Misrepresentation is a showcase of the diverse practices currently being explored by the Filippino avant-garde. This exhibition will highlight the significant contribution this group of artists is making to the history of art in the Philippines, while embracing a new era of outward-looking ambitious artists who are working hard to put Filipino creative communities on the world stage.

The artists included represent the cutting edge of Filipino art in the last five years. Many have won awards and some have established reputations in Europe and Australia. Others are legendary performers from Manila’s underground art and music scenes.

Bastards of Misrepresentation is concerned with a cultural scene happening in the Philippines but does not claim to be a definitive show of Philippine art. The title is ironic because the Philippines is a country with a hybrid culture, embodying a complex heritage and colonial history while it’s political identity reflects the pervasive ‘misrepresentation’ of its people. Bastards of Misrepresentation provokes issues around social critique, aesthetic autonomy, and the philosophical politics of expression; as well as examining the alternate conditions of authenticity and the nature of shared affinities.

Bastards of Misrepresentation is accompanied by a special exhibition of paintings by the Thai artist Warawut Intorn which extends the interest of the issues raised, at H Project Space. Further, a selection of artists will exhibit at H Gallery’s new space in Chiang Mai in the show Quiet Noise, for August-September 2012.

PR: Dr. Brian Curtin / +66(0) 8 9 1638102 / curtin.brian@gmail.com

H GALLERY BANGKOK (MAIN PROGRAM)
H PROJECT SPACE (2ND FLOOR AT H GALLERY)/
201 SATHORN 12, BANGKOK 10500 ph: + 66 85 021 5508 www.hgallerybkk.com

Tin-aw Art Gallery presents “1,” a solo exhibition of recent works by  visual artist  Ferdie Montemayor. The monochrome acrylic paintings depict crowds rushing to destinations known only to them. These medium scale works on canvas show cycling figures, running  bodies, and congregations in a range of movement. Swarms of bodies  plod pavements in measured steps, furiously pump bicycles, and  rhythmically jog to the finish. The artist’s fluid and dense  brushwork and figures that ease out and fill pictorial space conjure a  tense atmosphere of deluge and rush.

? Montemayor takes cue from past works of landscapes filled to the  brim, labyrinths of structures transforming earthly space into a  perplexing, alien form. This is the globe seen from the artist’s vantage, a sphere of motley structures, skyscrapers dwarfing (slums),  making the earth one tangled mass of gnarled networks. A heightened  sense of movement, frenzy if you will marks this new series in the  artist’s body of work. Earlier canvases especially those from 2009,  were marked by a profusion of inert bodies. The works for the exhibit  on the other hand breathe movement mostly frenetic, bodies stirring to  rhythm and steering towards redemption or catastrophe, we are yet to  know. Montemayor speaks to the perilous state humanity is in, of  unremitting greed overwhelming earth’s finite resources. The artist  summons us to join the crowd, to imagine ourselves within the fray,  and feel the crush life has become in a world increasingly on edge.

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The catchphrase “Tara’t MakiSining” sums up what MakiSining is all about: to bring art around Mt. Makiling. Spread on its foothills are artists coalescing to set up activities to flourish art in the localities of Alaminos, Bay, Calamba City, Calauan, Los Baños, and Sto. Tomas.

For 2012′s National Arts Month, Calamba City is on its spotlight with is inaugural major exhibition at SM City Calamba.

Kaya Tara’t MakiSining na sa Makiling!

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Another found over my friends in flickr is the site of John Yoyogi Fortes based from Northern California

blog here http://johnyoyogifortes.blogspot.com/

personal site here http://johnyoyogifortes.com/

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