Cordillera Suite: Homage to Apo Ben
Whenever foreign artists come to the Philippines looking for active and dynamic contemporary art communities, inevitably, Baguio and the Cordilleras would be a major destination point. For within the beauty of the northern mountains was a creative community fired by friendships and the dynamics of artmaking, creative thinking, and exchange. Art was not contrived but […]
Zhangzhou Ware Found in the Philippines: “Swatow” Export Ceramics from Fujian 16th – 17th Century
Curated by Oriental Ceramics Society of the Philippines President and scholar Rita Tan, the exhibition shows the range and variety of Zhangzhou ware shipped to the Philippines during the 16th to 17th century of the Ming Dynasty. Due to lack of information on its source of production, the blue and white ware exported in large […]
Poetry in Function: A Glimpse at Contemporary Filipino Pottery
Molded from the clay of the earth, Baked under the sun, Fired in kilns, Or turned in potters’ wheels, Pottery has been one of the oldest forms of human expression. Pottery is the ceramic ware made by potters. In everyday usage, the term is taken to encompass a wide range of ceramics, including earthenware, stoneware, […]
Framing Architecture: Photographs of Modern Philippine Cultural Venues by Paulo Alcazaren
Culture is the frame by which we live our lives and view our world. Architecture, as expression of culture, interrelates our lives and world view to an extent we are seldom conscious of. Viewing images of architecture is opportunity for critical discourse. Imaging buildings and space meant for culture and the arts then becomes a […]
Praise to Nature: the Art of Arsenia Lim
Arsenia Lim, also known by her Chinese name Tsai Shiu Yuin, brings her love for calligraphy, landscapes, flowers and birds to be shared with the general public. She combines the Chinese traditional water-and-ink spirit, Western sketching techniques, with realistic and freehand brushwork in this, her 8th solo exhibit, entitled Praise to Nature. Lim studied Chinese […]
Dugong my Son: Indigenous Prints from the Torres Straits, Australia
Gelam Nguzu Kazi: Dugong My Son features limited-edition linocuts by indigenous Australian artists from Mua Island in the Torres Straits. The exhibition is a striking collection of artistic works from the Kubin community of Mua Island in the Torres Straits north of Australia’s mainland. Drawing on ancient traditions of carving and presented in a contemporary […]
Nature Bejewelled
Nature Bejewelled features the finalists and winners of the 2006 Guild of Philippine Jewelers Jewelry Design Competition. With “Nature Bejewelled” as the annual theme, the pieces on display capture the natural and the nature-inspired. Nature Bejewelled is presented by the Guild of Philippine Jewelers.
Ting Ping Lay: Celebrating Figure and Form
A true measure of mastery in sculpture is the artist’s ability to get to the essence of the form—to manipulate and mold meaning from hard physical material—in order to pronounce the intangible qualities and values that express emotion and the various states of the soul of his subjects. Today, the evocative presence of sculpture is […]
Anita Magsaysay Ho: From Egg Tempera to Print
The exhibition presents a selection of egg tempera paintings created by Anita Magsaysay Ho from the 1950s to 2006. The paintings, generously loaned by various private collectors and institutions, provide a glimpse into the long artistic journey of Anita and her passion for depicting the beauty and strength of her homeland, particularly the arduous Filipina. […]
Sino-Filipino: Three Visions
Ang Kiukok, Lao Lianben, Charlie Co In its traditional definition, Vision is about the power of seeing the unknown or the future. It is in the realm of imagination that artists partake of freely, while discerning which aspect of what they see should be presented to the public. For here lies the responsibility of the […]
