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See all the winners of the 61st AAP -Art Association of the Philippines Annual Competition , See the work at their Multiply website.

Roel Obemio

Painting attached is a detail of the work of the First Prize winner in painting Roel Obemio  entitled “Identity Crisis”

http://aapgroup.multiply.com/photos/album/443/2008_61st_AAP_ANNUAL_WINNERS-PAINTING#

Next Link is the winners of Mixed Media part

http://aapgroup.multiply.com/photos/album/442/2008_61st_AAP_ANNUAL_WINNERS-MIXED_MEDIA

Sculpture winners

http://aapgroup.multiply.com/photos/album/441/2008_61st_AAP_ANNUAL_WINNERS-SCULPTURE

Drawing winners

http://aapgroup.multiply.com/photos/album/440/2008_61st_AAP_ANNUAL_WINNERS-DRAWING

Photography

http://aapgroup.multiply.com/photos/album/439/2008_61st_AAP_ANNUAL_WINNERS-PHOTOGRAPHY

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Swing
2 February 2009
Blanc Art Space Makati

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Show by Bong Bellosillo, Ian Madrigal and Mitch Garcia

Form, design, and function: making a social or political statement through artistic presentation. Art and social issues have always gone hand-in-hand, from Egyptian hieroglyphics to the Bauhaus to graffiti. The ocular and emotional impact made by Picasso’s Guernica forces one to think about the horrors of war. Munch’s The Scream, depicting despair and anxiety in 19thcentury Germany, is today a commercial icon used to sell sports drinks. In the latter half of the 20th century, the extreme revival of poster art branched into record album covers, and the debate over whether popular art is really art, once again posed the questions: what is art, and what is its purpose?

Does art have, and should it have, a message? Perhaps one of its functions is to identify groups, group membership, and political or social attitudes shared by the group.

Membership of subculture groups, whose ideas and lifestyles are at variance with those of the dominant culture, is usually dominated by the young. For some it is fleeting and forms a rite of passage; others move through a series of subcultures, and some remain committed to one, long term. Belonging to a subculture can be liberating, offering, for example, certain freedoms in lifestyle, sexuality, and politics. By defining their own geographical, social, and sartorial boundaries, subcultures also provide a sense of belonging that is independent of the family (Haye & Dingwall, 1996) and thereby establish a sense of empowerment and self-reliance that most young people strive for starting around ages 11-15. Subcultures express themselves through their own art, music, and dress. The subcultures of the latter half of the 20th century would most likely identify themselves as being outside of any norm.

- Ian Madrigal

at  Gallerie Astra
Friday, February 27, 2009 at 7:00pm
ends on Friday, March 13, 2009

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Play By Ear II (Oido)

by Alwin Reamillo

12-28 January 2009

Reamillo’s piano wings take flight with songs on Australia Day

The sheer but deceptive randomness of an assemblage of apparently unrelated objects as if fossicked from discards and rubbish, and a kind of low-frequency music vibrating among them maybe used to describe the rush of indefinable propositions/suggestions that make-up installation artist and painter Alwin Reamillo’s Play by Ear II (Oido) exhibition at Galleria Duemila, 210 Loring Street in Pasay City.

Music, and the remains of the almost forgotten piano-making industry in the country, and the cultural links between Australia and the Philippines, provides the melodic undertones to Play by Ear (Oido), which is set to close with a concert on 28 January at 6pm as part of the week-long celebration of Australia Day 2009.

Reamillo belongs to family of local piano-makers that manufactured the Wittemberg brand of upright and grand pianos before the industry went into decline partly as a result of globalisation. Included in the exhibition are recently restored art-case Wittemberg Pianos developed from an earlier artist residency project at the UP Vargas Museum called the Nicanor Abelardo Grand Piano Project. Both instrument feature a look-in glass window and transferred images from the Filipino musical film classic “Mutya ng Pasig”.

For the last thirteen years, the internationally renowned installation artist has made the far-off port city of Fremantle in Western Australia his home and base of artistic production. Play by Ear contextualises his transcultural practice between Australia and the Philippines, both as a tribute to his Filipino artistic roots and the Austral-Asian route of his artistic career. He has indicated plans to continue developing future collaborative piano projects between the two countries.

Reamillo, a recipient of the prestigious 2008 ArtsWA Mid-Career Fellowship in Western Australia and the 1994 CCP Thirteen Artists Award, brings together his musician friends from various encounters, having been an alumnus of the Philippine High School for the Arts, the UP College of Fine Arts and the Western Australia School of Visual Arts, Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University.

Australian Folk/Bush Music legend Warren Fahey, and his band the Larrikins, headline the closing concert, performing numbers from his famous collection of Australian Folk/Bush songs, ballads, poems, folklore built over 40 years. Filipino world music band Makiling will perform selections from their recently launched third CD album “ Malakas at Maganda”. Wystan de la Pena and Jose Sarigumba will render a duo-version of Nicanor Abelardo’s “Mutya ng Pasig” with young vocalist Collins Guttierrez singing traditional English and Australian songs, promising a most interesting night of performances with the special participation of Filipino world music advocate Grace Nono.

An open impromptu, improvisational jamming is also expected from other invited musicians and guests. “Our guest musicians for the closing event complete, in a manner, the cultural correspondences between Australia and the Philippines,” Reamillo says.

Play by Ear is a joint initiative of Galleria Duemila and the Australian Embassy Manila.

For enquiries regarding the concert please contact the secretariat at Tel. Numbers +63 833-9815 / +63 831-9990 or email us at duemila@mydestiny.net

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All the recalls and recoils on art in general, much with the retrograde fad, such as recycling, rewinds, and all the re’s from art history to pop culture modes of media - say, bronze sculptures by Duchamp sit (not-so-comfortably) side by side with a gangster rapper flashing his gold teeth, or in another collage, Rodin’s thinking man sits contemplating amidst a background of Nike air sneakers, a catalog page with various treasures interact with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s terminator character and the tin man from the Wizard of Oz, might be all too familiar, yet not, as this year’s opener veers the way to begin with redirection in painting.

As opposed to resolutions, religious or moralist leanings, and even guilt, Kreskin Sugay delves into (c)omitting sins in painting, a detour to the usual codes of meaning, yet nothing to do with creating or remaking another set of definitions, but eyes onto the act of painting itself wherein certain choices, decisions, or stance of the artist adopted from the moment, mediates into the creation of the works throughout the process.

Sugay focuses on the various options and decisions, yet yielding from random selection, in which the artist have had managed the images to lodge their way into his thought process. The production requires minimal control, this may be leaving mistakes, or turning the canvas upside-down being part of its laxity. As it is from the artist himself, he is, at the moment, making abstractions, very much interested in the makings - the mess that comes with failure, detours, losing control, of a painting.

The act of (c)omitting sin (in the artist’s painting process) finishes into permuting images, piling up painting clich�s, introducing element in the painting sending it to another direction, clashing the images and redirecting them to comic results. For Kreskin Sugay, the works seem to target the tradition of collage itself, more so with the investment of meaning onto seemingly random images.

The success of omitting sin, parodies all the clich�s of the artist’s work about painting, or to that effect, leaving him as well as his audience to - engage, question, celebrate, parody (it’s) traditions.

Sins of Omission will have its opening cocktails on Wednesday, January 7 at 6PM. The exhibit will be on view until Febrauary 2.
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Mag:net Gallery Ayala, is at the ground floor of The Columns Tower 1, at the corner of Ayala Avenue and Buendia. For details or inquiries, contact the gallery at 929-31-91 or email info@magnetgalleries.com or visit www.magnetgalleries.com

Kreskin Sugay

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The Art Association of the Philippines
in cooperation with
The Artery Manila
present

“NEW ART COLLECTIVE”

An exhibition of works by 25 emergent artists. Exhibit opens on Monday, January 26 at 7pm. Venue: Botong’s Up Restobar and Artspace, Ground Floor of A. Venue Mall (across Great Eastern Hotel formerly Aberdeen Court), Makati Avenue, Makati City.

Participating Artists:
Hermio Aguinaldo, Jr.
Ricky Ambagan
Reynaldo Amido
Jimmy Anecito
Bong Anore
Melbourne Aquino
Grace Astoveza
Max Balatbat
Mark Bello
Benji Bisaya
Malyn Bonayog
Robert Deniega
Franklyn Epil
Sherwin Paul Gonzales
Rizaldy Garra
Vincent Gonzales
Bernardo Horario
Josue Mangrobang
Dian Masinsin
Jensen Moreno
Kenneth Olpindo
Wilfredo Rufon
Jericho Valjusto Vamenta
Charlie Villagracia

See you there!

The Manila Artery, Tel. No. 7560346

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Bayan ni Nanding versus the Post Modern World

Contemporary Responses to the Life and Work of Fernando Amorsolo

After officially launching Manila Contemporary on 13 December 2008, the gallery opens the new year with a critical take on the iconic Fernando Amorsolo. Curated by Jonathan Olazo, BAYAN NI NANDING VERSUS THE POSTMODERN WORLD: CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES TO THE LIFE AND WORK OF FERNANDO AMORSOLO commences on Saturday, 17 January and runs until 7 February 2009.

Operating on the ambivalent responses of contemporary artists, BAYAN NI NANDING seeks to review the relevancy of the first National Artist for the Visual Arts Fernando Cueto Amorsolo in art practice today. The exhibition is made up for thematic and critical responses. The former includes “modernizing” Amorsolo’s themes by appropriating his iconography and creating variations of his images. The critical direction on the other hand, looks at the infamous web of commercialism Amorsolo is mired into by the art public. Neither conclusive nor judgemental, these responses indicates the negative effect on the stature of Amorsolo.

BAYAN NI NANDING VERSUS THE POSTMODERN WORLD presents the responses of Ronald Achacoso, Pablo Baens Santos, Manuel Baldemor, Bencab, Bea Camacho, Kiri Dalena, RM de Leon, Manny Garibay, Alfredo Liongoren, Isa Lorenzo, Fernando Modesto, Wawi Navarroza, Romulo Olazo, Jucar Raquepo, Dan Raralio, Alwin Reamillo, Raul Rodriguez, Igi Rodriguez, Soler, Don Salubayba, Judy Freya Sibayan, Jay Yao, Rollie D. Yusi and Costantino Zicarelli.

Joining them is a class of Fine Art undergraduates from Amorsolo’s alma mater, University of the Philippines: Rinnie Abrugena, Catalina Africa, Dean Africa, Louie Ano-Os, Raymond Carlos, Francis Commeyne, Raphael Daniel David, Cian Dayrit, Paola Germar, Maria Jeona, Eunice Lacaste, Aldrin Olaguer, Melvin Pollero, Kaloy Sanchez, Alden Santiago, Joseph Soliman, Jerome Suplemento, Nikki Valenzuela and Leo Velasco.

Start Time:  Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 6:00pm
End Time:  Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 7:00pm
Location: Manila Contemporary , Whitespace, 2314 Pasong Tamo Extension, Brgy Magallanes, Makati City
Contact: manilacontemporary3@gmail.com
Tel:  8447328

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Noted abstractionist Lao Lianben will present “Substance”, a solo exhibition of recent works, at the blanc compound

This time the artist raises the level of his paintings’ emotional pitch, intensifying the rendition of his favored themes such as his Buddhist Television series and his abstract portals of light. Now executed in spectacular large scale, the paintings are more heavily encrusted with dense materials which congeal and coagulate into thick massive clumps projecting from the canvas surface into cracked relief.. The process is visibly labor-intensive as the artist pushes the limits of the materials’ expressive potential.

All the works in the show evince a compelling spirituality, an enshrined quality in the art of Lao Lianben. The artist exercises a magisterial hand in the disciplined orchestration of blacks, whites, and greys. As visual analogues for man’s spiritual search, Lao’s paintings draws out the impressive radiance of space and light. The paradox lies in the contrast between the airiness of feeling and the sheer weight and density of his material. In a landmark work titled “Substance”, the artist liberates the spirit from the terrain of accumulated clumps of pigment.

Also impressive are Lao’s variations on the Buddhist Television theme. Comprised of a fine and filigreed network of thinly flowing paint, the image turns into a cascade of wash, fluidly tearing its way down in a swift descent of many-layered streaks. In other works, Lao releases the potential of the schemarized human figure, emerging from an infinitely expansive field. A tableaux of hands, lifted in a gesture of benediction, have a strangely becalming effect.

Substance will open January 18, 2009 3PM at the blanc compound, 359 Shaw Blvd., Mandaluyong City. For inquires call/sms 752-0032 0920-9276436, email info@blanc.ph or visit www.blanc.ph

Catalogue Essay by Cid Reyes
Photography and Design by Gari Buenavista
Design by Katrina Tan

Lao Lianben - Substance

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