''AVIAN,'' a new collection
of metal sculptures by
architect Honrado
Fernandez will be on exhibit
from May 6 to June 2 at the
Arts and Associates Gallery.
Fernandez explores new
patterns of space and
unlocks abstract
representations of birds in
flight- frozen in metal and
rendered more powerful lay the simple and minimalist vision of
Fernandez.
Fernandez is the current dean of the College of Architecture of
the University of the Philippines.
The Arts and Associates Gallery is located at 2004 Roxas
Boulevard near Sen. Gil Puyet Avenue, Pasay City. Gallery
hours are front 10:00 am to 6:30 pm frown Monday to Saturday
and from 1:30 to 5:30 pm during Sundays. Call 521-0358/ 59.
BELGIAN ARTIST. ''WHY the World Isn't Gray'' by Hilde Orye
is ongoing at Brix Gallery until May 18. This work is about
beginnings, the original state and the first steps toward
evolution. This is Orye's second solo exhibition in the
Philippines. Orye's mixed-media (porcelain, TV, lights, pigments
and sand) are images borne out of the artist's fascination with
the history of the cosmos, earth and life on earth, quantum
mechanics, astrophysics and biology: ''They are meant as
beginnings, not as a finished state of things.''
Brix Gallery is at G/F Osme?a Place, 2345 Osme?a St., Rizal
Village, Makati City, tels. 896-1448 or 890-7031 to 35 local 118.
ILOCOS ARTISTS. ''Isip at Gawa'' is part of the Viva Vigan
Cultural Arts and Trade Festival '99. ''Isip at Gawa'' is an art
exhibit featuring the paintings of selected artists from different
towns of the said province, and will be held at the Caf? Leona
Restaurant in Vigan, Ilocos Sur until May 5, completing the six
days of artistic atmosphere in Vigan (the Heritage Town).
This group exhibit will be conducted by the known Art
Exponents Group whose members include selected Ilocano
visual artists: Rey Sipin, Jim Bueno, Gerry Quintos, Regie
Fieldad, Mario Visoria, Pepito Ramilo, Robert Gromthom,
Kenneth Alibaya, Fideliz Reyes, Jean Palpallatoc and Alelie
Manegdeg.
ONE-MAN SHOW. Liongoren Art Gallery, with support from
the Metrobank Foundation Inc., presents ''Sa Silong ng
Bayan-Bayanan,'' the first one-man show of multiawarded artist
Norman Dreo.
Dreo is the first prize awardee in the 1995 Metrobank National
Painting Competition (oil category). The subject of and materials
in his artworks are truly products of the artist's environment. A
carpenter's son and a lifelong resident of the pook residential
communities in Diliman, Dreo portrays genre of his
bayan-bayanan. His major piece--reproduced in the exhibit
invitation--provides an overview of the prototypical community.
The various details of that large-scale painting are then
individually developed in paintings themselves. Dreo recycles
construction materials into his larger oil paintings. Pieces of
wood, scraps of wire, steel pipes and bottle caps, among others,
are incorporated, often in a similar surroundings and usage.
''Sa Silong ng Bayan-Bayanan'' opens May 5 and runs for two
weeks until May 19. The Liongoren Gallery is at 111 New York
St., Cubao, QC. For further information, call 912-4640/4319.
FILIPINO ART ABROAD. ''Mga Bagong Kwento Mula sa
Isang Lumang Yugto (New Stories From an Old Chapter)''
opened recently at the Pacific Bride contemporary Southeast
Asian Art in Oakland, California, USA. The exhibit featured the
works by six renowned Filipino artists--Elmer Borlongan,
Santiago Bose, Brenda Fajardo, Karen Flores, Mark Justiniani
and Pacific Bridge artist-in-residence Noel Soler Cuizon. The
exhibit explores issues of identity, memory and history within
the Filipino and international contexts.
The exhibit runs until May 29. Visit its Website at
asianartnow.com for exhibit preview, artist profiles and gallery
information.
VIGAN HERITAGE. The National Commission for Culture and
the Arts in cooperation with the Vigan Heritage Village
Commission and the Office of the Governor of Ilocos Sur will be
staging the ''Mga Likha at Larawan'' exhibit on May 3-8 at the
Provincial Capitol Hall of Vigan, Ilocos Sur.
''Mga Likha at Larawan'' is a unique photo and artifact exhibit
featuring the awardees of the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan, an
award given by the NCCA to outstanding traditional artists in
the country.
There will also be a seminar on the ''Gawad sa Manlilikha ng
Bayan'' to be given by Dr. Dave M. Baradas, member of the
Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan Committee. The seminar will be
on May 7, 10 a.m. at the Vigan Provincial Capitol Hall.
The exhibit and seminar are open to the public. For inquiries,
visit the NCCA at 633 General Luna St., Intramuros, Manila or
call Rhona Ramos at 527-2217 to 19 local 47, fax 527-2191/94 or
e-mail info@ncca.gov.ph. Call the Vigan Heritage Village
Commission at (077) 722-1471/1452.
PAINTERS CLUB. Fourteen artists of the prestigious Painters
Club present 42 paintings in its seventh anniversary exhibition,
''Pure Inspiration.'' This is the sixth show in the 1998-1999 Art
Exhibition Series presented by Galeria de las Islas and Holiday
Inn Manila. The exhibit runs until May 7 at The Gallery of
Holiday Inn Manila.
Results of pure inspiration, the paintings in oil, watercolor and
pastel revolve around the theme of love--for nature, people, life:
depictions of the enthralling Filipina, rustic Philippine
countryside, strong religious beliefs of Filipinos.
The exhibiting artists, aside from club president JesGarcia, are
Caloy Gabuco, Pat Reyes, Letty Lam, Jess Gellada, Jaime
Medina, Domeng Labordo, Ronald Cortez and Jun Diaz with
Lady Lynneth Salazar, Connie Cuneta, Jenny Munar, Liza Arbis
and Sol del Rosario.
The Gallery of Holiday Inn Manila is on UN Avenue corner
Maria Orosa Street, Ermita, Manila. Exhibit is open to the public
daily, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
GENDER STUDIES. Ann Wizer explores the social role models
we're bombarded with in contemporary mass culture and
combines them with heros and heroines from the past. Images of
superheroes and robots are mixed with art historical references
and motifs to visually depict ''Gender Studies.''
Show opens on May 8, 4:30 p.m. The Drawing Room is at
Metrostar Building, 1007 Metropolitan Ave., Makati City, tel.
897-6990.
SOCIAL REALISM. Negrense artist Charlie Co attempts to
wake people to the dangers of business without responsibility,
technology without ethics and life without religion with his
latest exhibit titled ''Story Messengers.''
His powerful surreal paintings bring together figure, form and a
global perspective to create a startling picture of human duality
and its varied effects on nature. Due to insistent public demand,
''Story Messengers'' will be exhibited until June 30 by the Museo
ng Maynila at the former Army and Navy Club Building, South
Road (near Quirino Grandstand), Ermita, Manila. The museum is
open Tuesdays to Saturdays, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. For more information,
call Museo ng Maynila at telefax 536-7388.
QUIET PAINTINGS. Artist June Dalisay will hold her 4th
one-woman show at the West Gallery, SM Megamall. Featured
in the exhibit titled ''Seas of Tranquility'' are Dalisay's watercolor
seascapes that gives the viewer an inside look into the artist's
idealized world.
The exhibit runs through May 11.
West Gallery is at 4/L SM Megamall Building A, Ortigas
Complex, Mandaluyong City. For inquiries, call 634-1284.
FILIPINIANA. "Indio'' is a collection of new paintings by
Antonio Lea?o. Culled from countless references of
turn-of-the-century photographs, books and postcards, the
exhibit is a tribute to the indio, a much maligned term used by
the Spaniards to refer to Filipinos during their regime.
The paintings in the collection exhibit limited palette, either
monochromes in several earth tones, red or sepia, appearing like
faded photographs, browned by age even replete with folds and
creases
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