Year: 2012
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Redd Nacpil: Tolerant Animal
I admire his works. Incidentally he is also a close friend, my ka-batch in high school, and former college fraternity brother. In my opinion, he has included in this exhibit some of his most honest if not the best pieces in his young career. From all the years of knowing him, I’ve always felt that…
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Jerry Araos, sculptor, 68
Artist Jerusalino “Jerry” V. Araos passed away on December 23. He was 68. I learned from my news feed that Jerry Araos passed away today. He is not a friend or a person close to me but I have one vivid memory of him: I was in college and I was organizing a tree planting…
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Rodel Tapaya: Deities
The depictions of these native gods resurface in Rodel Tapaya’s work from oral traditions around ancient beliefs in the Philippine religion, a religion that believes that gods existed in many forms and that there is an invisible realm within our world. Contained in the format of a portrait, they are rendered as abstracted combinations of…
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Four new media artists at Light and Space Contemporary
Four new media artists at Light and Space Contemporary Light and Space Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of Charles Darwin, Me, and other Irregularities, a group exhibition of four new media artists: Kuro, Ralph Eya, Julius Redillas, and Andrei Venal, which opens on Saturday, July 14, 2012. Throughout their production for the exhibition,…
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Marina Cruz: Inside Out
Marina Cruz, Laced-top, 2012, mixed-media assemblage, 37 in x 55 in Immersed in the various conceptual layers offered by her mother’s collection of dresses, Marina Cruz conveys a series of related pictures as part of her process of representing the narratives weaved upon them, focusing on the discrepancies between visual and verbal references. Through her…
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Rodel Tapaya: Prism and Parallelism at Ben Cab Museum
The ancient and current congregate in Rodel Tapaya’s latest solo exhibition which will open on 25th February 2012 at the Ben Cab Museum in Baguio City. The exhibition pieces together long-treasured folklores that hold unique representations of mythological heroes and indigenous fable characters in beautiful compositions that are as dense and complex as the originating…
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Napoleon Abueva’s long distance race
Napoleon Abueva Photo: Katrina Ventura Napoleon Abueva’s house in Tandang Sora, Quezon City is scattered with busts of important figures, all coated in dust. Parts of the sculptor’s studio have fallen into disuse since he became wheelchair-bound over five years ago. The stroke had effectively ended his major productions. At the time, I was a…
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Introduction to Moment’s Notice
It is my belief that in any profession, especially in the creative line, one never completely moves beyond the pull of the personal in any human encounter. Experience teaches us to not look at the works merely as objects but also the process behind it. My project has in its typical manner sought to deeply…
Geronimo Cristobal 