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OPENING: BEA CAMACHO, Disconnect The Dots, June 2, Tues, 4-7pm

SLab?s smaller gallery 20Square proudly presents new work by artist Bea Camacho in Disconnect The Dots from June 2-June 20,2009. The mixed media pieces explore spaces of separation through unorthodox maps. The main piece of the show, An analysis of relative distance (Family map, 1983-2009), charts the artist?s family location through the years via a series of boxes which are colored using a color-numbering system.? The colors correspond to the international dial codes of countries?Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, USA, UK, and so on?where they have lived as a family unit, or as individuals.? Rather than attempting to create connections, these works deliberately engage in a process of taking apart and aim to show the ?in-between?. As a construct of the disconnection, Camacho will be mounting the other half of the show at Finale Gallery. Disconnect The Dots will have its opening reception from 4-7pm on June 2, Tuesday at 20Square Gallery. It wi ll run from June 2 to June 20, 2009. Bea Camacho will be giving an artist talk on June 20. Disconnect The Dots will be shown along with Inner Spaces by Briccio Santos at Silverlens and Balana by Charlie Co at SLab (Silverlens Lab).Visit 20Square at 2/F YMC Bldg.II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City. Gallery hours are from 10am – 7pm Monday to Friday, and 1 – 6pm on Saturday. For more information, call 8160044 / 09052650873, email manage@silverlensphoto.com or visit slab.silverlensphoto.com. Read More

Image: Bea Camacho:An analysis of relative distance (Family map, 1983-2009), 2009

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“Soul Quarantine”

by : Leo Velasco, Louie Talents, JR Dela Rama

PASEO GALLERY-MEGAMALL

26 May – 8 June 2009

Haven’t there been times in our lives when we felt that we were travelling Life’s long, winding and sometimes dark road alone? What we perceive as existence or essence leaves us wondering when this dark cloud of gloom shall lift. Emerging as a twentieth century movement, Existentialism focuses on the question of the meaning of a concrete human existence and the conditions of his existence rather than positing a pre-established essence to his being.

With a keenness of magis and a maroon temperament in progress, LOUIE TALENTS focuses on the limits of responsibility that one must bear as a result of his freedom and free will to choose from the many options life makes available to him. A personal experience with life’s cruel lashings as a result of his own individual choice led the artist to realize that there is no such thing as “absolute freedom. This artist’s paintings are a perfect square diptych artwork that resonates of a profound personal journey from the clutches of darkness to the freedom of light.

LEO VELASCO, on the other hand, renders on canvass the heavy anxiety of his solitary travel through another of Life’s proverbial rough roads. When asked why his paintings bring forth a distinct feeling of anguish in every stroke, he simply says, “My journey towards self-awareness and my personal struggle stokes my intense passion to translate on canvass my own interpretation of Life’s realities. My paintings are my stories, they may not be about fairies and flowers, but they are about Life, my life. What is art, after all, if not a mirror of life?”

Despair is a profound concept that underlies the works of JR dela RAMA. The embodiment of an artist on a protracted personal struggle, this artist found his haven in the free world of art. Recognized for his distinctive style, JR is no different from a thinking artist, but in the final days of his art production, he revealed his creations as a reflection of his unique personality and style.

These three emerging talents wish to believe that as artists converging from UP Diliman College of Fine Arts, the existential attitudes of disorientation and confusion is forever immortalized by their characteristic brushstrokes and nifty use of colors. This three-man show entitled “Soul Quarantine” is a conceptual palette transferred into the canvass and is a reflection of the artists’ soul.

Opens on May 26, 2009, 6pm at Paseo Gallery-Megamall, 4^th Level, Building A, SM Megamall Mandaluyong City, Philippines. For enquiries, please call (632)706-5514, or email us: paseogallery@yahoo.com or visit www.paseogallery.com. Exhibit runs until 8 June 2009.

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AZOOL INC.
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2276 Pasong Tamo Ext. Makati City
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Cannibal Love
A Carnal Exhibit Served Raw

Cannibalism is an act associated with the consummation of raw meat
from the same species. Simplified, it’s eating your own.  And love;
what can be said about love that hasn’t been said before? This exhibit
is a collaboration between two artists who brought their own
perspective to the idea of love and the emotions behind it. A modern
take on how carnal, raw and consuming love can be.

Brenda Praico’s pieces portray the “softer” side of cannibalism by
focusing her subjects around her slightly romantic meats. A more
in-depth look would reveal the feminine angle by representing one
being consumed by love.

James Zabala’ works show a tougher kind of love. It concentrates on
being the consumer of love itself. His works show an embracing,
dominant side to love; the possessor who’s in command of the emotion.

Both artists graduated Fine Arts Major in Painting from UST and have
participated in several group shows. This is their second
collaboration after “Random Gods” in 2005.

Cannibal Love will run from May 25 – June 12, 2009 at Blanc Gallery,
Makati. Blanc Gallery is located at 2E Crown Tower, 107 H.V. Dela
Costa St., Salcedo Village, Makati. For more information, please visit
www.blanc.ph or www.blancartspace.multiply.com

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Cultural Warfare

The Big and Small Art Gallery presents a group art show entitled “Cultural Warfare” by artists Sherwin Coronado, Anton Del Castillo and Julio Samson. This exhibit investigates the nature of cultural warfare and how it is manifested in various aspects of human civilization by altering societies, identities and memories.

Coronado’s paintings probe the concept of Filipino diaspora and the consequences of global capitalism to ethnicity and identity. Meanwhile, Del Castillo’s works present visual allegories that reflect religious conflicts and domination in society. Lastly, Samson’s canvases illustrate the tight-rope balancing of employer-employee relations as influenced by socio-economic forces.

The show will open on June 1, 2009, 6PM at the Big and Small Art Gallery , fourth floor, SM Megamall A, Mandaluyong City . The show will run until June 10, 2009. For inquiries, call (02)5365101 or email tubbyph@yahoo.com.

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