EXHIBITS
Colors of Life
Dragon Gallery, RCBC Plaza, Makati City
Ongoing until January 16
See how young students perceive what a happy and healthy lifestyle is in an exhibit that mounts more than 20 artworks selected from the 544 entries for the 6th Colors of Life Students Visual Arts Competition. Staged by insurance company Cocolife, the exhibit theme “Happy and Healthy” aims to promote the awareness, ideals and qualities of having a healthy lifestyle to the young individuals of today’s generation.
Currently on exhibit are the winning works created with watercolor, oil and acrylic paints by students in grade school, high school and college levels. Multi-awarded artists from the fields of advertising, film and visual arts selected the top placer, runners-up and special prize winners.
For more information on this ongoing exhibit, send an email to dragongallery@yuchengcomuseum.org
Begin
Main Gallery, ArtInformal, Mandaluyong City
Ongoing until February 6
ArtInformal gallery welcomes the year not with a blank canvas but with a collection of paintings, photographs, installations and more in its first group exhibition for 2016. Nine young artists that include Pope Bacay, Julia Barrameda, Mars Bugaoan, Camille Cabatingan, Pin Calacal, Andie Harn, Kitty Kaburo, Henrielle Pagkaliwangan and Veronica Pee showcase their narratives of personal and impersonal beginnings and their perceptions of what it means to begin again.
Bacay and Kaburo reimagine environments and landscapes through experimentation of layers, renditions and processes while Bugaoan breathes life onto old photographs through scratches and erasures. Pee continues her exploration of the moon; Barrameda and Pagkaliwangan chronicle the ephemerality of experiences through video and acrylic sheets, respectively. Calacal uses hair to highlight the tension between new life and intimate bonds formed from dead and loose strands. Harn, on the other hand, fabricates a memorial quilt that celebrates her classmates’ pursuit of becoming artists, and Cabatingan morphs fossilized creatures to comment on animal cruelty.
Visit www.artinformal.com for more details.
Rehearsals For The Willful
Silverlens Galleries, Makati City
Ongoing until February 6
Singaporean artist Genevieve Chua debuts her latest series of works in the Philippines. In her solo exhibition, Chua presents pieces that take cues from her previous series. The visual artworks present the wilderness that is pared down to its essential forms, achieved through a methodology of visualization of audio bytes.
Chua’s abstraction has made it possible to show that painting bears flatness and depth simultaneously without surpassing each other. The photographics “Tillandsia Usneoides” for instance features a deliberate line that ruptures spatial dynamics between images.
For more details and inquiries about this ongoing exhibit, contact info@silverlensgalleries.com or (02) 816-0044.
THEATER PLAYS
Tosca
Greenbelt 3 cinemas, Makati City
January 12
Giacomo Puccini’s melodrama about a volatile diva, a sadistic police chief, and an idealistic artist is the third offering of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Metropolitan Opera in HD. The Luc Bondy production of Tosca is led by an exceptional cast including Patricia Racette who portrays the tempestuous diva Floria Tosca; Roberto Alagna as Tosca’s lover, the painter Cavaradossi; and George Gagnidze who plays the corrupt and lustful Scarpia.
The CCP Met Opera in HD series features screenings of the latest operatic productions of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Tosca was featured in the Met Opera’s 2013-2014 season and was transmitted live worldwide on October 29, 2013 in more than 2,000 movie theaters around the world.
For more information on this one-day screening, call Greenbelt 3 cinemas’ Customer Service Hotline at (02) 757-7883, or the CCP Sales and Promotions at (02) 832-3706 or send an email to ccpsalesandpromo@gmail.com
The Game’s Afoot
Onstage, Greenbelt 1, Makati City
January 15 to February 7
Theater company Repertory Philippines opens its 79th season with Ken Ludwig’s award-winning comedy-thriller The Game’s Afoot. Set in 1936, the story follows Broadway star William Gillette, who is known for his brilliant portrayal of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. After a show, he invites his castmates to his castle for a weekend of revelry wherein one of them turns up dead. Gillette must channel his inner Sherlock and figure out who the killer is before the latter strikes again.
The Game’s Afoot is directed by Miguel Faustmann. The cast is led by Pinky Amador, Jeremy Domingo, Hans Eckstein, Natalie Everett, Christine Flores, Paul Holme, Mica Pineda, Jay Valencia Glorioso, and Joy Virata.
Call (02) 843-3570 or visit www.repertoryphilippines.com.ph for more details.
WORKSHOPS
Shui Mo: Chinese Painting Workshop (Intermediate)
Yuchengco Museum, RCBC Plaza, Makati City
January 16, 23, 30, February 6, 13, 20, 27, March 5, 12 and 19
Learn the traditional Chinese brush painting technique Shui Mo from seasoned Chinese painting instructor Pieh Tsai Shiu-Yuin (Arsenia Lim) in 10 Saturdays, from January to March. Shui Mo (water and ink) is a freestyle technique created using a brush dipped in ink and water and painted onto rice paper.
The topics to be covered are Pine Tree, Wisteria, Narcissus and Rose. The 10-day workshop is open to participants 15 years and older, who have prior experience in Western or Chinese painting. Workshop fee is P6,500 excluding materials, which can be purchased from the instructor on the first session.
For workshop details, contact programs officer Elma Abrina at (02) 889-1234 or info@yuchengcomuseum.org
