Ties of History: Art in Southeast Asia
PRESENTORS:National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)Dalubhasaan Para sa Edukasyon sa Sining at Kultura (DESK)Office of Senator Loren Legarda EXHIBITION CURATORDr. Patrick D. Flores ARTISTS:Amanda Heng (Singapore)Roberto Feleo (Philippines)Anusapati (Indonesia)Do Hoang Tuong (Vietnam)Savanhdary Vongpoothorn (Laos)Chris Chong Chan Fui (Malaysia)Jedsada Tangtrakulwong (Thailand)Min Thein Sung (Myanmar)Lyno Vuth (Cambodia)Yasmin Jaidin (Brunei) INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS:Yuchengco MuseumMetropolitan Museum of ManilaUP […]
CONSONANT FORMS, RESONANT PRACTICE
EXHIBIT ORGANIZERS PAAFI – Promoting Advocacy for the Arts Foundation, Inc PRESENTORPMFTC, Inc. EXHIBITION CURATORTessa Maria Guazon ARTISTS:Ambie AbañoGrand Prize Winner, Philippine Art Awards 2006 Ivi Avellana-CosioJurors’ Choice, Philippine Art Awards 1997 Marina Cruz Grand Prize Winner, Philippine Art Awards 2008Abi Dionisio Award of Merit, Philippine Art Awards 2016Nona Garcia Jurors’ Choice, Philippine Art Awards […]
Blessing Manila – An Offering of Hope to the Philippines
Auspicious Omens and the Science of Surprises Transformation is a state of marked change. It implies metamorphoses across form, structure, substance and scale: from intimate shifts to colossal processes across time. It has been subjected to many modes of inquiry, from philosophical traditions of thought to scientific theory. Every phase of positive or negative change […]
Love Life – The 7th Colors of Life Competition
Cocolife, the biggest Filipino-owned stock life insurance company, honors the winners in the recently concluded 7th Colors of Life Visual Arts Competition. This was a nationwide contest, open to grade school, high school, and college students. Interpreting the theme, Love Life, here are some of the winning entries from more than 300 submissions. For more information […]
Future’s Past
Future’s Past is a special collection of timeless black-and-white photographs by German photographer and Berghain club doorman Sven Marquardt. The exhibition examines the humanity of Berlin locals. Intimate and intense, Marquardt’s dark and industrial images spans 30 years of photography. He began taking photographs in the early 1980s in East Berlin where he was part of the city’s […]
A Celebration of Artistic Excellence
A National Artist is a Filipino citizen who has been given the rank and title of National Artist in recognition of their significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts and letters. National Artists for Visual Arts from the Yuchengco Museum Collection take center stage in the exhibit A Celebration of Artistic Excellence. Side by side […]
Chicken Hands: Photographs by Ryan Arbilo
Chicken Hands highlights the black-and-white images of Paris-based photographer Ryan Arbilo. Since 2009, Arbilo has been photographing Filipino housemaids who have been working in France for many years. These women use their hands as their only tool. Hands which, damaged by housework, look like chicken feet. The housemaids’ faces are also marked by the hardships […]
Wynn Wynn Ong: Redefining Boundaries
Celebrating 15 years in the industry, jewelry designer Wynn Wynn Ong continues to redefine what it means to truly be a woman of style. In a special retrospective at Yuchengco Museum, Ong features the fruits of her creative endeavors through the decades—from art jewelry to objets d’art to couture. For the very first time, the […]
Digital Dimensions: Video Art Projections by Naoko Tosa
Digital Dimensions features the Genesis video art series of Naoko Tosa, an internationally renowned Japanese media artist and recent Japan Cultural Envoy. The galleries are transformed into a scenic environment with video projections of dry ice and Japanese colored inks on water. Tosa is known for her use of cutting edge technology, and she uses […]
Sharing Life, Sharing Art: Angelito Antonio & Norma Belleza
Angelito Antonio plus Norma Belleza sum up a painting couple. Sharing studio and home, life and family, they have carved out their individual, painterly styles in the Philippine contemporary art scene. They are inspired by the reality they see and experience, which they translate into colorful expressions. Their compositions are usually crowded with frontally-oriented figures, […]
