Year: 2009
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Krzysztof Wodiczko “Guests”
The Polish pavilion – actually a windowless cube – is surprisingly transparent this year. Floor-to-ceiling windows with rounded arches open the view to the outside. Through the slightly milky panes, the visitor standing in the dark of the exhibition space can observe people doing different activities. Some are chatting, others are busy cleaning the windows,…
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Destiny of Empty Caskets
This critical reflection on Soledad’s Sister (Anvil 2008), second novel of Jose Dalisay was written as final paper for Professor Maria Celeste Coscolluela’s Comparative Literature class at UP. (2008) Paez doesn’t appear on any road map, but it occupies as enduring a place in the Filipino imagination as Tondo or Rosales. Because Paez is in fact…
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A portrait of downhearted objects
Caroline Ongpin at Paseo Gallery September 1-15, 2009 Paintings in oil abound the gallery walls in Caroline Ongpin’s exhibition, ‘Spaces for Contemplation’, at Paseo Gallery, 4th Floor Building A, SM Megamall. The paintings invite us to settle with the gallery, each one a depiction of rooms and several household objects. They are reminiscent of Edward…
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Pictures/dreams
The Ulla and Heiner Pietzschs Collection New National Gallery, Berlin June 19, 2009 – November 22, 2009 When the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection in the Eastern Student Building opened as an annex to the Neue Nationalgalerie vis-à-vis the Museum Berggruen last year, Berlin was given the opportunity to familiarize itself permanently with “Surreal Worlds” for the first…
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‘Lost Dragonfly’: Tradition and translation
By Oscar Campomanes Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 18:39:00 07/12/2009 Filed Under: Arts and Culture and Entertainment, Poetry MANILA, Philippines – “The process of cultural translation,” says eminent anthropologist Talal Asad, “is inevitably enmeshed in conditions of power.” Cultural critic Rey Chow chimes in that one form of power involved in the translation of anything—from…
Geronimo Cristobal 