Past Exhibits 2021
‘Sa Pula, Sa Puti’, a group exhibit showcasing the works of Kalye Kolektib artists Dennis Atienza, Robert Besana, Rai Cruz, Alfredo Esquillo, Arvi Fetalvero, Ivy Floresca, Kirby Roxas, Ioannis Sicuya and Anthony Victoria.
-Arvi Fetalvero
‘An Epidemic of Nostalgia’, a group exhibit featuring the works of Edz Calimlim, Lourd de Veyra, Roger Mond, Fernan Odang, and Yko Umadhay.
-Karen Tesalona
Amalgam, a group exhibit by Elbert Caballero, Alrashdi Mohammad, Demosthenes Campos, Jojo Lofranco, and Max Balatbat shows diverse approaches to abstraction and materializes what is otherwise invisible and unnoticed, lending viewers other ways of seeing nature and architecture.
-Pam Quinto
Artist Dave Lock, inspired by Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching and Carl Jung’s theories on ‘Shadows’ or the collective unconscious, creates for his solo exhibition works on paper using a process of etching various figures and images within a portrait where seemingly unconscious thoughts are being exposed. The integration of ‘Shadows’ into our consciousness brings about new and creative synergy to our lives.
-Pam Quinto
For his seventh solo exhibition, Iloilo artist – Melvin Guirhem presents Salimuot where he weaves his ever-present concerns not merely as a conscious interlude of colors, illustrations, and other media but as something that is originally perceived in his fragile/fertile imaginations. Digging deeper, Guirhem expands his visual language further and extends his artistic range. For his creative output, Guirhem does six paintings on acrylic and six artworks on thread creating a striking exhibit for its diversity and richness. Collectively, Guirhem pushes the cause what and how Iloilo is creatively shaping up.
-Jay Bautista
Lena Cobangbang, Mariano Ching, Gale Encarnacion, Jed Escueta, IC Jaucian, Kitty Kaburo, Jo Santos and Yasmin Sison survey various states within the spectrum of change—from the gradual and unexpected, to the volatile and winding states of transfiguration. The audience will also discover how disrepair and decay can offer possibilities for renewal and reincarnation—through depictions of ephemera, and through altered and manipulated photographs. In other works, conventions of beauty are broken down and altered as a gesture of resistance towards the projection of superficial aesthetics.
-Pam Quinto
For Esquillo, a lot of hidden meanings are concealed in the signified thus one should be attentive enough to the picture at hand to enable our own inherent realizations. The artistic prowess of Esquillo is he still leaves much of the action to his viewers to remain active not just passive.
-Jay Bautista
Dela Cruz, born and bred in Bugallon, Pangasinan, embarks on his first solo exhibit entitled Malangwer this 2021. As one of Eskinita’s Tuklas Program grantee in 2017 and member of Biskeg art collective in Pangasinan, Dela Cruz creates works of art which adheres to the current political and social conditions. Dela Cruz, trained as an editorial cartoonist in his school paper, applies a new figurative approach and even the politics of the craft to his artistic discipline.
-Jay Bautista
Sun Gazing is an activity that can start with a sunrise and end with a sunset. We long for it in the evening when it’s too dark to see outside, we long for it when the rain starts to pour, and we long for it to provide a constant ray of light in our daily lives. There are, however, moments when humans want to stare at it longer than they’re supposed to or capable of doing.
-Karen Tesalona
Aligaen brings forth an observation to the common stock of suffering under a pandemic. It is a statement on people’s suffering as a loss of freedom and movement, personal identity, and worst of all, humanity. In spite of this, Aligaen confers that amidst the pain, torment, and the disarray brought about by the pandemic, people seem to exhibit unfaltering courage and strength.
-Karen Tesalona
Cervantes’s works are somber in tone and loaded with melancholic imagery-somewhat reflective during the intense months of the ongoing pandemic when Cervantes was preparing for them. In these nine works, Cervantes heightened the adage that humans can cause their own extinction—we are just part of mortal remains of an existence that replenishes itself.
-Jay Bautista