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Please click on the link below to view the exhibition of Salvador Joel Alonday, “MARKERS”, which opened Thursday, September 24 and will be on view at Art Informal until October 24, 2009.

http://www.artinformal.com/space/exhibit/29

I saw some of his work here

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Alonday’s Markers: a sculpture exhibition at Ai

The stages of adult life, its pains and its triumphs, is the collective theme of Markers, an exhibition of stoneware sculptures by Salvador Joel Alonday.

Alonday, who has previously gained critical notice for his figurative works in resin and epoxy, turns to the organic medium of clay for this series, both as material and metaphor.  “Within clay is the residue of many things - bones, metals, trees - and fashioning images from it is like a resurrection,” says Alonday.  Inspiration and subject matter come from the artist’s own experiences and he distills the essence of his past into poetic single forms whose figurative imagery are taken from diverse sources that include religious art, myth, classical sculptures and folklore.

The sculptures depart from traditional pottery techniques as each were fired with different glazes, torched, assembled and welded onto wrought iron structures.  The resulting work consists of highly original textures and forms.

In choice of subject for this series, the artist tended towards the difficult, darker paths of existence, where his spirit was tested and survived.  Like his medium of choice, he commemorates hallowed events of darker nights, falls, the ebbing of life forces, follies, and even death - and yet, also by marking these way stations in the earthly pilgrimage, Markers also celebrates the triumph and resurrection of the will-to-live from fire and ashes.

Alonday is a recepient of the Metrobank Prize for Achievement in Sculpture (MPAS) in 2008.  He is a co-founder and curator of Art Informal, a gallery and art education center.

The exhibition opens on September 24 and will be on view until October 24, 2009, in cooperation with the Silangan Foundation.

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James Lawrence Ardea: Love Empire
September 3  October 31, 2009

LOVE EMPIRE, a new solo exhibition by James Lawrence Ardea, explores notions of the state of Filipino America, the lasting effects of colonization and the emotional constructs in which we imprison ourselves. As a self-taught artist, Ardea developed his own techniques combining images from vintage travel and anthropology books, found objects, organic materials, and text encased between layers of resin. The final assemblage is permanently cast and suspended in time, recontextualizing the original images and objects depending on the perspective of the viewer.

For his largest and most ambitious work to date, Ardea will transform a portion of ArtXchange Gallery in Seattle, WA into the environments depicted in his resin and mixed-media paintings. Viewers will be able to enter the world of Ardeas assemblages as if caught in the artwork itself. Inspired by dioramas found in natural history museums, the surreal dreamscape will be inhabited by archetypal images ranging from the Jollibee icon to historic photographs of indigenous Filipinos, as well as flora, fauna, and celestial elements. Ardeas work brings history, anthropology, pop culture, and personal memories together into a colorful installation that encourages audience interaction and reflection in a space where love rules - offering a collective articulation of the struggle to self actualize, love ourselves and each other.

James Lawrence Ardea has been a Seattle arts organizer since the mid-90s and is co-founder of isangmahal arts kollective in Seattle, the LA Enkanto Kollective, and Mixt Up Productions. His artwork was recently seen in How the Soy Sauce was Bottled at Wing Luke Asian Museum and in Sarii Cycle: A Dialogue of Love at Columbia City Gallery.

http://www.artxchange.org/

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“Salvation History”, a group show opens at Tin-aw Art Gallery on September 11, 2009 at 6pm. The exhibit celebrates the 10^th year anniversary of Cavite-based art group Anting-Anting. This is the first show of a series of three shows for the group’s first decade celebration.

“Salvation History” runs until September 30, 2009. For inquiries contact Tin-aw Art Gallery at the Upper Ground Floor, Somerset Olympia Makati, Makati Ave. cor. Sto. Tomas St., Makati City. Contact +632 8927522

Deconstruct Madonnas by Nimfa Ursabia
Mixed Media Collage
Opens on September 25, 2009, Friday
6:30 PM Whitewall Gallery
7467 Bagtikan Street, San Antonio Village
Makati City
Please call (632) 7107439 for confirmation

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Gallery Walk Through
with Duddley Diaz
25 September, Friday, 2pm
G/F Lobby and West Wing Galleries
UP Vargas Museum

In line with the exhibit
Messenger of the Gods
A Duddley Diaz Retrospective
8 August to 30 October 2009

The UP Jorge B. Vargas Museum (UPVM) in cooperation with Galleria Duemila, Inc. presents a Gallery Walk Through of the exhibit titled, Messenger of the Gods: A Duddley Diaz Retrospective on 25 September, Friday, 2:00 pm at the G/F Lobby and West Wing Galleries of the Museum. Learn more about the artist and his works as the artist himself gives enlisted guests a tour of the exhibit. The tour will accept a maximum of thirty guests. Admission to the tour is free.

For reservations, please contact Ms. Louise Marcelino or Ms. Susie Garcia the UP Vargas Museum at numbers 928-19-27, 981-85-00 local 4024 or send an e-mail at vargasmuseum@gmail.com. Deadline of reservations is on 18 September 2009.

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Artinformal

presents

Wood Sculptures by Riel Hilario in Aniwaas opens on September 3, Thursday, 6pm

Sculptor Riel Hilario reinterprets the folk belief in the animating spirit in Aniwaas, an exhibit of his recent sculptures in wood.  Aniwaas is an Ilocano term for the earthbound spirit. In ancient Ilocano mythology the aniwaas is one of the four souls believed to comprise the life-force of a living person, which is left behind in the earthly plane in the transition to the afterlife. Being fully attached to its former existence, the aniwaas lingers within its familiar environs and is said to inhabit the bodies of small animals, insects and even statues or pictures.

For the artist, the animating principle of the aniwaas is a creative process in sculpture where the maker’s thoughts, memory and consciousness take residence in forms. The sculptor engages the concept of the aniwaas as a metaphor for the residual consciousness that lingers after the creation of a work, which brings an affective presence or living sense to the form. For Hilario, his aim as a sculptor is to make sculptures that “seem to exist on their own will”. Aniwaas is the second of a series of wood sculptures on the four Ilocano souls, following his show Kadkaduwa in 2005. The exhibit is the artist’s eight solo show.

Hilario studied santo-carving under Jose Lazo Jr. in Ilocos Sur in 1994 and took up painting and art history at the University of the Philippines. His wood sculptures were featured in the national traveling exhibit Sungdu-an 3 in 2003, a project of the national Commission for Culture and the Arts.

Aniwaas runs from September 3 to 20. For inquiries please visit www.artinformal.com or call 7258518. Art Informal, an artist-run center for art education and exhibitions is at 277 Connecticut St., Greenhills East, Mandaluyong City.

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