EXHIBITS
Flamboyance
Total Gallery, Alliance Française de Manille, Makati City
Ongoing until February 26
The ever picturesque Batanes islands get a fresh, new look through the paintings of biologist and artist Victoria Abad Kerblat. The Alliance Française de Manille, with support from the Embassy of France, stages the latest solo exhibition of Kerblat featuring the breathtaking sceneries of her hometown.
Kerblat weaves together the beautiful sceneries Batanes has to offer – from the violent waves to the high rocks to the stone houses, the rolling hills and rice paddies to the strong-willed islanders – in her paintings that beam with vibrant hues, mostly reds and yellows, in contrast to the usual Batanes images of blues and greens. In this way, the Franco-Filipino artist shows her artistic maturity and vision of how fertile the land is and how rich the life found in the northern tip of the Philippines can be.
For more information on this ongoing exhibit, visit www.alliance.ph.
Here is How the Transition into the Mambo Beat Looks Like 2016
Lobby, Yuchengco Museum, Makati City
Ongoing until February 27
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the first People Power Revolution, Galleria Duemila and Yuchengco Museum join forces to mount the series of conceptual art installation of Roberto M.A. Robles. Through his white plaster of Paris and wood installation, the accomplished artist expresses his sentiments and personal relationship on the fight for democracy.
Robles’ latest solo show alludes to the events and symbols of Martial Law and the Edsa People Power Revolution of 1986 with an intention to express the struggle of each Filipino and to remove the fence of ignorance. According to him, he hopes that the museum visitors looking at his works will think about the symbolism of fences and barriers that block freedom of mind and ideology; and of chairs and tables that offer dialogue in our fight for true democracy.
Call (02) 889-1234 or visit www.yuchengcomuseum.org for inquiries and more details.
A Taste of Gutai
Ground Floor Gallery, Ayala Museum, Makati City
February 5 to April 10
For its opening exhibition this 2016, the Ayala Museum presents 80 paintings, made by the Gutai art movement artists, loaned from the private collection of Lito and Kim Camacho.
Gutai is a Japanese art movement defined by the radical and energetic approach to art making. Founded by Jiro Yoshihara and Shozo Shimamoto in 1954, the art movement was composed of artists based in the Kansai region of Japan. The paintings and sculptures by the Gutai artists are made of unconventional and highly physical techniques such as painting with feet, wrestling in cement and gravel, and deploying paint from elevated surfaces and cannons.
For more information, email hello@ayalamuseum.org or call (02) 759-8288.
Cliché Untitled
Artery Arts Space, Quezon City
February 6 to February 27
What really is the value of a painting today? Is it a thing of beauty? A vessel for reflection? A tool for expression? A symbol of cultural position? Or an agency of commercial exchange? This is the question of many artists in this day and age of commodification, and Lindslee tries to illustrate the anxiety of art through his latest solo exhibit.
Popular for his abstract paintings infused with a pop and conceptual basis that borders on institutional critique and postmodern eclecticism, Lindslee presents installations of paintings, sculptural objects and found materials, all marked and distressed to provoke thought and visual arrest.
Visit the gallery’s Facebook page ARTERY to know more about this ongoing exhibit.
Motions and Emotions
Museo Pambata, Manila
February 6 to March 6
Two nonprofit organizations that empower and improve the life and skills of underserved children come together to stage Henry Lamy’s fundraising exhibit. This Museo Pambata Foundation and Stairway Foundation joint project benefits underprivileged youth as proceeds from the sale of Lamy’s art pieces will be used to fund the two foundations’ programs.
The exhibit is borne out of French figurative painter Lamy’s recent travels in Brazil, and in Manila and Puerto Galera here in the Philippines. Hence, the paintings on display are his collection of everyday scenes in the places he visited.
At 2:00 p.m. on the day of the opening, Lamy will also hold an Artist Talk and Demo to showcase his latest concept that involves capoeira and live-painting.
For inquiries and more details, call (02) 523-1797 local 103 or email info@museopambata.org.
CONCERTS
The Amazing Brahms
Little Theater, Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila
February 5, 7:30 p.m.
Valentine’s Day starts early as the Metro Manila Concert Orchestra stages its Valentine offering, “The Amazing Brahms,” featuring virtuoso Filipino concert pianist Dr. Jose Artemio Panganiban III.
The penultimate show of the MMCO 15th Crystal Anniversary Concert Series will see Panganiban playing Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 under the baton of multi-awarded conductor-composer Josefino “Chino” Toledo.
“The Amazing Brahms” is co-presented by MMCO and Meralco. Capping off the concert series is “The Magnificent Rachmaninoff” on June 10. It will feature the performance of Dr. Abelardo Galang playing Rachmaninoff’s beautiful and formidable concerto, Concerto No. 3.
Call (02) 216-6487 or 0917-5335747 for inquiries.