Sep 01 2010
Metrobank Prize for Achievement in Sculpture (MPAS) Awardee for 2009, Noell EL Farol, will present his most recent wrought iron and glass sculptures in “Bibliography” to open on the 2nd of September (Thursday), 6 pm at Artinformal.
277 Connecticut St. Greenhills East Mandaluyong, Philippines
Opens September 2, 2010 at 6 pm until September 20 7 pm
Aug 26 2010
Velvet Landing is an offshoot of Lena Cobangbang’s previous series Crater Valley Plateau where she has taken pictures of maquettes of mountains, volcanoes and plains carpeted in synthetic polyester. This time she rolls out bales of carpet plains in recreating her very own idiosyncratic comedic garden of errors, where midget clowns are struck by lightning and panthers hide in the artifice of plushy softness. Not so much as a commentary on the failings of urban planning in simulating plains of terrain vagues that are the wanton byproducts of abandoned construction projects, but rather a re-enchantment of such wanton spots as being these wonderland of dark comedies rife of smirking metaphors.
still no grass paintings.
Many thanks to Mawen, Manuel, David, Lost Projects, Adeline, Mackol, JJ, Sam, Pow, Bea, MM, the rest of the Bastards,Masi, Tin, Pritz, Albert, Hubert, apid, roy, enteng, James, Jerome, Jameson, the barbers on Major Dizon, Finale, my family , ….and im sure there will be more people i have to thank for
Opens :Saturday at 6:00pm – September 26 at 12:00am
aug28 – sept 26, 2010
cocktail hours : the usual time, soon as the sun sets
Location: mo_space hi street, fort bonifacio, taguig
Velvet Landing
Aug 23 2010
With his eyes cast on the question of hidden dimensions, or else the dimensions that lie beyond the 3 dimensions perceivable or measurable by the human mind, Ian Carlo Jaucian embarks on his first solo exhibition Heretical Science at the Small Gallery of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and attempts to find, not just ways to ‘see’ these dimensions but also what these could mean for us.
To be heretical implies dissension or differentiation from established doctrine, granting that the existence of hidden dimensions can neither be proven nor disproven and therefore there is no scientific law or principle for it. Jaucian’s work may very well echo scientific methods as he employs art to experiment on, explore and investigate what is for now impossible to know. Yet this is just the tip of his transgressions even as he acknowledges this contradiction: that the mind cannot accurately perceive the actual nature of things and yet it is capable of understanding spatial concepts beyond the perception of the senses.
Heresies run against absolutes as the mind is undeterred at forming its own possibilities. In Heretical Science, the unknown is reflected through installations of 2D and 3D works; what is abstract is rendered into the representational. Art counters the veneration of expression and instead we find a confluence of both system and play. These are works that recall the science of illustrated textbooks, of museum field trips, of those educational programs that inspired us as children to dream of being physicists and geologists. That we are brought into this discourse on perception through the aesthetics of our primary encounters with science are part of this exhibit’s heretical operation. Imagination, to paraphrase Einstein, is more important than knowledge. Indeed, art and science form rich playgrounds for such creative and constructive imaginings.
Ian Carlo Jaucian is a graduate of the UP College of Fine Arts, and was one of its Outstanding Thesis grantees in 2008. He currently works as Exhibition Coordinator for the Ateneo Art Gallery.
Heretical Science opens on Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 6:00pm. The exhibit is open to the public and will run until October 02, 2010. Viewing hours are from 10:00am-6:00pm daily except Mondays and Holidays.
Opens on August 26 Thursday at 6:00pm – October 2 at 6:00pm
CCP Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo (Small Gallery ) Roxas Boulevard Pasay City , Philippines
Aug 23 2010
Exhibition by Dina Gadia
September 1 at 6:00pm – September 25 at 6:00pm
at 2/F YMC Bldg 2, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City
Aug 23 2010
new works by Haraya, Mariano Ching and Yasmin Sison
September 4 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm
The Peninsula Manila G/F Shops 9 and 10 Ayala Ave., cor Makati Ave.
Jun 12 2010
ALL SET FOR A BIGGER & BETTER MANILART 10
After the astounding success of last year’s MANILART 09, the Bonafide Art Galleries
Organization (BAGO), teams up once more with the National Commission on Culture and Arts (NCCA)
and the Department of Tourism (DOT) to showcase the finest in Philippine visual arts via the bigger and
better MANILART 10, the 2nd Philippine International Art Fair.
Slated for a four-day public run at the SMX Convention Center Hall 4 at the Mall of Asia
Complex, Pasay City from July 29 until August 1, 2010 from 11am to 8pm.
MANILART 10 promises to dazzle art lovers and enthusiasts with the best and broadest
examples of Philippine contemporary art. Over 1,000 paintings and sculptures by 400 of the country’s
brightest talents will be on display and over 60 of the finest art galleries participating, thus making the
fair the biggest ever in Philippine history.
“In the first year of MANILART, it took us three long months to fill up the 40 exhibition booths
planned,” says BAGO president Jonathan Sy. “This year 70 of the booths snapped up within two days
by some of the most prestigious galleries nationwide. We post a 40% increase in the participation with
half of that number getting double-sized booths.”
The BAGO also expresses its gratitude to the management of the SMX Convention Center as the
space more than doubled and more importantly for agreeing to lease Hall 4 at a subsidized rate owing to
their support to Filipino art and artists.
Exciting activities such as painting demonstrations, on-the-spot competitions, “how-to” lectures
and many more are lined-up. That is why the BAGO is very pleased that the NCCA Committee on Art
Galleries headed by Lyn Yusi initiated the approval of a larger grant for MANILART 10. (30)
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Jun 08 2010
Dis-close: Project Another Country continues Brisbane-based artist-couple Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan’s investigation into the idea of time and memory, place and history, processes and transitions. This latest exhibition turns attention onto the physical site itself to reveal something of its past and history. With careful consideration and close examination, the artists respond sensitively to the space and its painted white walls. The husband-and-wife team has been collaborating over the past ten years on projects based on their experiences as artists and as parents of five children currently living in Australia. Their inter-disciplinary, collaborative and communal art projects often employ everyday materials and found objects to express ideas of migration, family and identity.
Major exhibitions include: ‘The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, 2009; Logan Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, 2008; Singapore Biennale, 2008; Adelaide Biennial, Australia, 2008; The Drawing Room, Manila, The Philippines, 2006; Biennale of Sydney, Australia, 2006; 50th Biennale of Venice, Italy, 2003.
Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan are represented by Jan Manton Art | CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL ART | 59 Melbourne St South Brisbane QLD 4101 AUSTRALIA | +61 7 3844 0043 | http://www.janmantonart.com/
http://boxcopy.org/dis-close-project-another-country-alfredoisabel-aquilizan/
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Jun 06 2010
In the magical reality of her pieces, there is an agitation and energy of thought and possibility streaming into reality in the form of a dark, symbiotic liquid, threatening to engulf and drown out all that is concrete and tangible. There is a necessary yet beautiful destruction that the artist embraces, which she anticipates will give her passage into a new, if ephemeral plane of artistic creation.
Break in Continuity will open on Friday, June 4 from 5pm to 8PM at blanc Peninsula Manila. Blanc PMN is located at The Peninsula Manila G/F Shops 9 and 10 Ayala Avenue corner Makati Avenue, Makati City.
The exhibition will run until June 26, 2010.
For more information please visit www.blanc.ph call/sms +63920.9276436
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