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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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Press Release “The College Guys” exhibition opens with a party at 371 art space For the College Guys, a loose artistic group composed of Francis Bejar, Francis Commeyne, Geronimo Cristobal, Jr. and Chalk Zaldivar, artworks need not be alienated from their everyday reality. Conceived to present a series of new works forged under a fresh…

Tapaya’s paintings recurrently depict narratives embedded in Filipino cultural history that offer sharp and often piercing commentary on contemporary life and issues. Through his adept manipulation of folk aesthetic and material, Tapaya provides his mythical characters with allegorical significances that transcend common perception, offering fresh insights about their origins and relevance. The paintings become a…

The Jorge Vargas Museum is a humble and elegant institution, but I have sometimes thought that the artist who is offered a one-man show there might well think twice before accepting. Maybe it’s the air of self-importance that surround those exhibitions they hand an artist there, maybe it’s simply that few men have the actual…

I was searching through the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) collection last night, out of curiosity, for a Filipino artist and found only two names. The first one is Lino Brocka. The original film of Bona is currently kept—luckily—in the MoMA Film Archive of the world’s best movies. I think there is no existing copy…

Last night at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, as the torrential weather coated the entire city with an unlikely charm, a warm and wonderful treat took place.  The French conductor Olivier Ochanine, who became the musical director of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra in March this year, had decided to present a superb selection consisting…