Exhibits 2020
“NOVENTA”, brings together fourteen foremost artists whose passion for art began early in the 1990s and has since then created extraordinary and unique works of art. Their body of work collectively impacts and continues to contribute relevance to the art community. The show features Elmer Borlongan, Dansoy Coquilla, Melvin Culaba, Noel Cuizon, Alfredo Esquillo, Karen Flores, Emmanuel Garibay, Eric Guazon, Mark Justiniani, Joy Mallari, Alwin Reamillo, Jose John Santos III, Anthony Palomo, and Ronald Ventura. Curated by Renato Habulan and Jay Bautista.
-Jay Bautista
A solo show by Richard Buxani.
Disruptions is a situational narrative of an artist’s body of work in the pandemic times.
A solo show by Reen Barrera.
“It’s time to leave, Time to move on, but that doesn’t mean you’re gone completely. The spot from where you came from are filled with things that made you who you are, It’s like a game wherein you level up and face another monster that you have to defeat. Challenging oneself and creating your own obstacle course is one way to live an exciting life. Being comfortable is uncomfortable, it’s boring.”
WPS
(West Philippine Sea) On renaming and reclaiming our territory.
An Online Exhibition.
Lockdown Memoirs II is an extension of the first one. It further explores the emergence of despair as a manifestation of people’s trauma, sentiments, and hardships during a pandemic. The exhibition reflects the artists’ passion for life — the richness it is deemed to possess, and the bitter reality of its fragility.
Lockdown Memoirs explores the emergence of despair as a manifestation of people’s trauma, sentiments, and hardships during a pandemic. The exhibition reflects the artists’ passion for life — the richness it is deemed to possess, and the bitter reality of its fragility.
A group exhibit by Archie Ruga, Rodel Omampo, Mark Lester Espina, Joen Sudlon, and Dondon Jeresano.
The movement of inquisition entails a lengthy examination of all books that are in circulation, an investigation and apprehension of all persons suspected of the crime of bigamy, heresy, or any practice that mars the purity of Christian faith. People who are found culpable of said crime is given a corporal or violent punishment. But with this power, ill effects manifest an excessive utilization of its agents to exhaust their privileges and extend their influence for personal ends.
-Karen Tesalona
Crossover
The act of moving from one point to another becomes the central theme among the works of the nine artists in this exhibition. However, ”Crossover” does not simply look at the physical action of this undertaking. Here, the different narratives shared by the artists through their works denote how they reflect within their personal lives and surroundings in finding meaning to memories, thoughts, and actions.
-Gwen Bautista
Borsoto spent his early days in an inactive barrio. Walking in almost empty streets, and clinging to his own alternate world, he had set his heart solely to his creative sensibilities. The works Panic I and Panic II serve as a testament to this, as they are works the artist used to cope with during his panic attacks. He, then, treasured the little moments that saved him from the abyss that almost seemingly appeared to him as his absolute reality. In Nevertheless, he reconciles these moments and manifests a definite way in which the bleakness of his own barrio actually did more than inflict an unmerited distress. It incited him to rise above himself, and see the more of what the world can promise.
-Karen Tesalona
In “Kuan”, our hesitations to describe our circumstances are transformed into concrete substantiation of truths, mending the gap between realities and language. This exhibition features the works of Nicolas Aca Jr., Michael Bacol, Errol P. Balcos, Oca Floirendo, Michelle Lua, and Jericho Valjusto Vamenta.
-Gwen Bautista
The first solo show of Ivy Floresca is entitled 111, which is a symbol used in spiritual language and numerology as that which pertains to awakening, enlightenment, intuition, and self-reflection.
-Karen Tesalona