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stall 59 / cubao expo / araneta center / cubao / quezon city whitebox_studio@yahoo.com 437 3839 | Start: | Sep 18, '09 | | End: | Sep 30, '09 | | Location: | Whitebox Studio, Stall 59 Cubao Expo, Cubao Quezon City |
You are all invited to an Art Exhibit entitled "Maniobra Reversals" at Whitebox Studio featuring the works of Benjo Elayda, Eric Guazon, Lotsu Manes & Kirby Roxas. Exhibit will run from September 18-30,2009. For inquiries, please call us at tel# 437-3839 , send us a personal message or an e-mail at whitebox_studio@yahoo.com |  | Aner Sebastian has developed a method of dividing pictorial space into grid patterns within which he renders varying perspectives, usually of nature elements. In all of Sebastian's works, there is a constant merging and dividing of the lush and heavily detailed images. There is also the tension between lyrical forms and geometric patterns. These characteristics give off a shimmering and mesmerizing effect.
Sebastian's works have won numerous prizes and distinctions, and have been exhibited in various venues in the Philippines as well as in Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, France and Luxemberg. His recent pieces, shows his maturing style----a simplification of forms and a more clearly defined color blocks ---- that signal a gradual move toward more non-representational art. |
| Start: | Apr 17, '09 6:00p | | End: | Apr 29, '09 |
Whitebox presents “Siete Palabras”, a group exhibition trudging towards the seven last words of Christ during his crucifixion at Golgotha, the place of skulls. Gathered from the holy gospels, these sayings form part of a Christian meditation that is often used during lent, holy week, and Good Friday. “This collection of works simply narrates the Lenten culture of Filipinos nowadays” Cuvos, the brainchild of the project says. In an orchestrated totality, each canvas bleeds an individual story, transcending the boundaries of traditional realism and retelling the moment of scourging in a somehow surreal manner. One of the artists states during the interview that their works are simply a dream delving of surrealism with a social realist’s conscience. True to the thought, these avant-garde critics of society may be radical enough in their own respective ways, but still they cling on to the perception of social awareness in their unending pursuit of change and communal evolution. The show consists of Rena Cuvos, Joselito Andayan, Jonathan Joven, Arnel Brilliantes, Teody Racuya, Rey Conmigo, and Carlo Tallion. --DAVE LOCK "Siete Palabras" opens at 6:00 p.m. on April 17 at Whitebox Studio, Stall 59, Cubao Expo, Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines. The show runs until April 29. For inquiries, please call 437 3839 or e-mail whitebox_studio@yahoo.com | | CANTO: A Curving of Corners and Chapters
IN URBAN SETTINGS, the terrain of a woman’s mind is unquestioned as media territory. A symbiotic zoning has transpired. Signs and images tell us what women want, what goes on in their minds. And woman’s form is itself a lubricant to a whirl of transactions and demands. Like other cities, Manila ’s turmoil of traffic and pollutants finds ease through the codified enticements of young, healthy, feminine faces and bodies. If masculinity issues the promise of strength, factual authority, as well as the play and control of machines and technology, then femininity embodies the message of softness, beauty and worldly pleasures.
Women’s entry into the workforce has placed the manipulation of media language in their hands. This development has not easily translated into a transformation of mindsets. It is a journey yet in progress. We are perhaps enjoined to look more closely beyond a highway or high ways. There are paths that curve inward: small personal passages that discover shifts and enlightenment through the exercise of allegory.
In “Canto,” we are presented with three young women from media’s creative industries of publishing, advertising and marketing. Inasmuch as they are empowered by their jobs, they are the enforcers and producers of media codes. Nikki Abaya, Dang Sering and Mimi Tecson take a detour from the professional grind to contemplate on the allegorical chapters of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, deriving inspired readings filtered through the varied perspectives of three probing minds.
Appropriately encased in this White Box, are cornerstones of their imaginings-- be it the lyricism of romance or the raging of furies-- and mappings of life stories. “Canto” is replete with focused, investigative scrutiny, even as it fully embraces a range of presumably feminine emotions.
Nikki Abaya engages with Dante’s love for Beatrice, and conjures her in oil portraits like “Il Mio Caro,” depicting for us an immense infatuation that spells both heavenly salvation and inevitable doom.
Dang Sering mulls over Dante’s depiction of hell. “Inferno” is one work that transforms the vision of fire and brimstone into a more intensive torment of lost integrity or wholeness. Sering’s ink-laden fires seem less harmful, but nonetheless eat up and obscure a intact vision of body and self.
In between desire and despair, Mimi Tecson plots snippets of her life through objects that calmly address the ups and downs-- the heaven and hell-- of her young life as mutable sets of occurrences and consequences, where one’s decision always plays an active part. “Doors of Perceptions,” opens a transcendental vision of what lies behind moments of torment; astounding gifts come out from every curse. Tecson’s boxed arrangements paradoxically resist the notion of predetermined feminine fate, and succeed in invoking fearless play and experimentation. These parcels are maps that tell us of a young woman’s freedom to explore.
Dante Alighieri is said to have written his famed verses in a time of great spiritual crisis. His way out was to image a journey into the afterlife, portraying for us the inner ponderings and admonitions of Medieval Christianity. Yet the making of an allegory is never quite a finished task. Its range of symbolisms and meanings in turn points us to varied directions and interpretations. The inner journeys of the three artists of “Canto” lay parallel paths in allegorical and eventually media constructs, gently curving harsh lines into extended tendrils of awareness and growth.
-- Karen Ocampo Flores
March 20, 2009
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The Art Association of the Philippines will participate in the Manila F.AM.E. International 2009 event organized by Visual Events Management Enterprises to be held at the WorldTrade Center and SMX Convention Center Pasay City on October 15-18, 2009. The AAP aims to promote the cultural development of the Filipino people in the climate of free artistic and intellectual expressions through an exhibit showcasing the talents of our visual artists. As we take the initiative in strengthening our cultural awareness by collaborating with private organizations on this project, we can develop, conserve, and promote Philippine culture and arts focusing on cultural education and networking by having an exhibit of artworks during the said occasion. We are being given an opportunity to display the visual artists and gallery owners once again. May we invite you to support our visual artists for the Manila F.A.M.E International 2009 event exhibit and be part of the historical moment in propagating the importance of national identity through visual arts. Everyone here is excited and looks forward to meeting you and sharing with you this momentous occasion. Thank you very much. Sincerely, : Joel Chua Bernal Internal Coordinator Art Association of the Philippines-AAP Artist/Designer/Innovator LINKX Enterprises Mobile: +63929.950.75.32 Email: jcbinnovationx@gmail.com http://www.likhax.multiply.comhttp://www.thelinkx.multiply.comhttp://www.jcbinnovations.multiply.comhttp://www.districtguide.multiply.comMarie Grace Bernal Pascual Marketing and Events Manager Art Association of the Philippines-AAP Visual Events Management Enetrprises Mobile: +63920.920.81.49 Email: mariegrace_pascual2001@yahoo.com http://www.gnijmich.multiply.comNoted: Mr. Buds Convocar President Art Association of the Philippines-AAP Mobile:+63920.920.81.49 Email: budsconvo@yahoo.com |
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