Year: 2013
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Young contemporary artists as ‘Dirty, Poorly Dressed, and Filled with Love’
By: Camille Anne M. Arcilla – @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 02:06 AM September 30, 2013 “Dirty, poorly dressed and filled with love” could be the exact description of Filipino artists—the reason why a group of young ones had to put it in visuals. “‘Dirty, poorly dressed, and filled with love’ is a somewhat stereotypical description…
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The Beard Factor
About Habilin’s hairy thrills Aside from some minor disparities, Carlo Alvarez’s and Val MacArthy Depro’s story is kind of like Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video. There are three reasons why I recall the scenes in Thriller and the now declining genre of the music television in watching Habilin. One, is the shortness of it. It…
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Sexless Pinoy Cinema
The decline of sex in the genre of indie and short-time Four years ago in my scriptwriting class, one classmate turned in a movie script for a pornographic movie. No, I don’t have a copy of it. But from what I remember the script was all ninety minutes of grunts and grinding that would otherwise…
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Kung Mangarap ka’t magising revisited
Thirty five years after the movie was made Kung Mangarap Ka’t Magising (Moments in a Stolen Dream). 1977. Philippines. Directed by Mike De Leon. Screenplay by De Leon, Rey Santayana. With Christopher de Leon, Hilda Koronel, Laurice Guillen. DCP. Courtesy ABS-CBN Sagip Pelikula. In Filipino; English subtitles. 112 min. Photo: MOMA/Cesar Hernando Revisiting Mike De…
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Jed Escueta: Valid Until Life
Valid Until Life Gallery 2, Light and Space Contemporary 53 Fairlane St., West Fairview, Quezon City, PH June 29 – 30 July 2013 Valid Until Life gathers the work of Jed Escueta who explores strategies of representation and narration in his photographs. Since starting out as a photographer, Escueta has used the camera to call…
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Joseph Tecson: Destroy the Cages at West Gallery
When Joseph Tecson first painted in prison, he was doubtful he would make something good out of it. He painted initially at the insistence of his brother and because there was an urge to pass time productively. That was the simple reason. Each week, throughout the four years and twenty days he was incarcerated for…
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Indonesia at the Venice Biennale 2013
Indonesia has moved its pavilion into the Arsenale for the first time. On an impressive 500 square meters, the works of six artists are presented here. The participants were selected in a lengthy selection process – after all, they had set themselves the goal of showing a representative cross-section of the variegated contemporary Indonesian art…
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Jigger Cruz / Depth Circus
Jigger Cruz / Depth Circus Jigger Cruz explores the primitive memory of the figurative in contemporary painting. He is returning to modernism’s layers of subdued, scarcely fashioned hasty urges to tear down the tenets of precedent movements. When such an attempt is filtered through an ironic, neo-expressionist approach, it’s even more difficult for the…
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Julius Clar, Not here anymore at Light and Space Contemporary
In bringing collage and assemblage works that recall the twentieth century master, Joseph Cornell, Julius Clar confronts us with two distinct traditions, one rooted in the whimsical visions of Western Modernism and the other in the more politically charged spheres of the Filipino avant-garde aspirations of the 1960s that equally inform his practice. Clar’s world,…
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Jason Tecson, Terror Decor at West Gallery
Against the unwieldy physical stature associated with monumental sculptures, Tecson’s creatures appear almost farcically feeble, void of the ostentatious tradition of his artistic precedents and behave more like loaded figurines. He effectively and a bit roguishly, undermines the canons of sculpture. The superficially solid body is overstated but becomes a flimsy vessel for unworldly appearances.…
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Light and Space boys
We are now installing beds in every studio in light and space. Not mainly for the convenience of sleeping inside the studio but rather to make the artists work on their projects as soon as they get up and until the very last hour. So they would have plenty of time to dream of exhibitions…
Geronimo Cristobal 