Dec 28 2008
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Archive for December, 2008
Dec 24 2008
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !
The whole team of Filipinoart would like to greet all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !
Dec 19 2008
Eghai Roxas at the CCP
“EQUILIBRIUM” BY EGHAI ROXAS AT THE CCP (Cultural Center of the Philippines)
For the month of December, the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) proudly presents the solo exhibition of well-known Abstractionist Eghai Roxas titled
“Equilibrium”
from December 11, 2008 until January 11, 2009. “Equilibrium” will bring together twelve large works that the noted Filipino artist has produced over the past year utilizing the artistic forms for which Roxas has been celebrated in the Manila artistic community. This includes the use of delicate monochromatic washes of black and white, allied with strategic gestural strokes, bold lines, globes, and circles with shadows to create a synthesis of Western and Asian Modern Art. Eghai’s “Equilibrium” touches on the artist’s meditations on the nature of existence, and the interactive balance between emotion, nature, and the elemental human struggle to redefine meaning and the relevance of art to the greater society. To be opened on Thursday, December 11, 2008, 6PM at the Pasilyo GuillermoTolentino, 3rd Floor Hallway, CCP Center for the Performing Arts, Roxas Boulevard, Manila, “Equilibrium” also retraces the odyssey that the noted painter, sculptor, and performance artist has undertaken since his days as one of the youngest members of the Social Realist movement that defined cutting-edge Philippine Art with a social heart during the Seventies. Inspired by the Modernist irony of Abstract Illusionism, especially those of American artist James Harvard in his advanced art studies in the United States after 1986, Eghai has managed to channel his concerns for depicting social issues, as well as his practisanal concerns via this form of contrasting abstract patterns and cast shadows that question the formalist strictures of Abstraction during the early-mid 20th Century, redefining art in the present as an evolution of motifs and meanings that result in synergy and synthesis. The use of elegant contrasts of dense textural grounds, minimalist background wash, thick gestural strokes, geometric planes, and illusional shadows on large, rectangular canvases also produces a hybrid combination of modern Western abstraction and traditional Asian calligraphy that best exemplify the uniqueness of Philippine Contemporary Art. Eghai Roxas is a product of the prestigious University of the Philippines (UP) College of Fine Arts in 1980, under the tutelage of National Artist Jose Joya, Roberto Chabet, and Abstractionist Constancio Bernardo; and has worked under renowned maestros like Gawad CCP Para sa Sining awardee Jose “Pitoy” Moreno. Eghai has mounted major exhibitions in such locations as the Ayala Museum, the CCP, the Vienna International Center, Ad Infinitum Gallery in Chicago and New York’s Puffin Room. He has won many awards and distinctions, including Juror’s Choice at the 1994 Philip Morris Philippine Art Awards; one of the Ten Most Outstanding Artists of the 1994 Diwa ng Sining Awards organized by the Rotary Club of Makati West; and First Prize in Non-Representationa l Painting at the 1997 AAP Annual Art Competition. He is also currently concerned with performance art as an extension of the canvas in terms of foregrounding meaning and relevance to the greater social community, having co-founded the Electric Underground Collective along with Cesare A.X. Syjuco, Jean Marie Syjuco, and Lirio Salvador. His opening reception for “Equilibrium” on December 11 will feature one such interactive performance piece titled “Cycles.”
For more details on Eghai Roxas’s “Equilibrium,” please call the CCP Coordinating Center for Visual Arts at Tel. # 832-3702.
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Dec 17 2008
Bobi Valenzuela remembers
Bobi Valenzuela died of a heart stroke last December 12, 2008.
Bobi was one of the influential curator of Philippine Art since as early as 1970 ’s , It was just a one jeepney ride from my home to where Bobi spends his day at Hiraya Gallery , that was the time I just finished my Fine Arts degree at the Philippine Women’s University. Words are not enough to describe Bobi , same as he has so much to say about me and my works but I can say that I was one of the artist who kept some of the memories of Bobi . It was the time that Noel Cuizon, Joel Alonday, Raymond Maliwat, Joey Cabangis, Dindo Peralta, Zeus Inocencio and me will have an afternoon coffee with Bobi just to hang around and eventually at the end we had a series of group show around the galleries in Manila.
Bobi we owe u one ! Thanks for all the direction and guidance!
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Dec 17 2008
Ryan Jara
Children’s Playground
Surfing early in the morning I pass by this interesting works done by Ryan Jara .I think this are his works still ongoing at the CCP that opens Last December 4. The show is entitled “Children’s Playground” it will be ongoing until January 3, 2009.
Ryan Jara
Dec 16 2008
Tatong Recheta Torres
The most GENUINE Regret
A Solo Exhibition by Tatong Recheta Torres
hosted by Artinformal
Tatong Recheta Torres
Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 6:00pm
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 9:00pm
277 Connecticut St., Greenhills East
Mandaluyong, Philippines
Mandaluyong, Philippines
Dec 16 2008
MANILA CONTEMPORARY ” All I Want For Christmas”
MANILA CONTEMPORARY opens with the exhibition, All I Want For Christmas…, on 13 December which will feature a colorful array of artists from the local scene as well as the rest of Southeast Asia. This heady visual concoction demonstrates the breadth and width of contemporary art practice of the region – from watercolor and oil to photography and installation.
Participating local artists include, Jonathan Olazo, RM de Leon, Jay Ticar, Don Salubayba, Elaine Navas, Clairelynn Uy, Bubot Raquepo, Alvin Villaruel, MM Yu, Romulo Olazo, Soler Santos, Arturo Luz, Costantino Zicarelli, Pandy Aviado, Christina Quisumbing, Popo San Pascual, Bubbles de Leon, Julian Araos, Amy Aragon, At Maculangan, Louie Cordero, Cris Villanueva Jr., Fernando Amorsolo,Ofelia Gelvezon-Tequi, Valeria Cavestany, Francisco Pellicer Viri, Jerry Araos, Arturo Luz, Anthony Palomo, Geraldine Javier and Jonathan Ching.
All I Want For Christmas… is also the event to be acquainted with other contemporary Southeast Asian artists such as Manit Sriwanichpoom, RE Hartanto, Kokok Sancoko; Ronald Manulang; Stefan Buana, Agus Purnomo, Jalaini Abu Hassan, Yee I Lann, Ariadithya Pramuhendra, Dedy Sufriadi; Chong Siew Ying, Popok Tri Wahyudi, Natee Utarit, Ronald Manullang, Jimmy Ong, Eko Nugroho, Claudio Bravo, Agus Suwage, Putu Sutawijaya and Mella Jaarsma.
All I want for christmas
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