Exhibits
Topsy Turvy
Tall Gallery, Finale Art File, Makati City
Ongoing until April 1
In this day and age when paintings are injected with copied and printed matter, the term “original” in works of art is now being challenged. To confront this topic, 21 artists from different generations and countries present their individual expressions using various printing techniques.
Featured in this comprehensive exhibition of contemporary art are the recent works of Maria Cruz, Lizza May David, Romeo Lee, The Weather Bureau, Timo Roter, Jayson Oliveria, Valeria Cavestany, Sam Kiyoumarsi, Ferdz Valencia, Gerardo Tan, Robert Langenegger, Carlo Ricafort, Juan Carlos Quintana, David Griggs, Luis Santos, Tanya Villanueva, Jeona Zoleta, Pow Martinez, Gaston Damag (in collaboration with Mark Biwit), Manuel Ocampo and Argie Bandoy. Some of the media used are oil and photograph collage (Bandoy), mixed media and serigraph print collage (Cavestany), spray paint on canvas (Martinez) and pulp and collage on canvas (Tan), among others.
To know more about this ongoing exhibition, visit www.finaleartfile.com.
FinaLEE
Upstairs Gallery, Finale Art File, Makati City
Ongoing until April 1
Eccentric artist Romeo Lee never considered himself part of the mainstream, but as his artistic career matures, the Pinoy punk pioneer is coming out of his shell, so to speak, as more people have become appreciative of his work.
Answering his fans’ clamor, Lee presents his latest series of artworks in a solo show. Lee, who is known for only painting what he feels like, exhibits a couple of oil on canvas pieces that unmistakably underscore a more serious tone but still feature unusual colors, layers of dripping, swirling paint and ghoulish imagery.
Visit www.finaleartfile.com for more information on this ongoing exhibit.
Insidious
Main Gallery, Art Informal, Manadaluyong City
Ongoing until April 16
Lace meets wire and wire meets lace in Eugenia Alcaide’s latest exhibition that marries two diverse and very different worlds of expressions. Alcaide wrought the two materials together to create unwritten emotions that will move the audience – that when the two are combined, there is a subtle surrender.
The images formed evoke emotional turbulence – the world of broken dreams and survivorship; how a woman finds freedom; the beauty of harshness, grief and sorrow; and what makes a woman strong and fortified. Alcaide ventures to the very heart of her being to help delicate souls find solace in lace and be mended by wires.
For more details on this exhibit, visit www.artinformal.com.
Mending Wall
The Inner Room, Art Informal, Mandaulyong City
Ongoing until April 16
Taking his cue from Robert Frost’s poem of the same title, visual artist Lubin Nepomuceno takes advantage of people’s fascination with walls as he showcases his recent series of paintings featuring no less than walls.
Paintings love walls – obviously because the former are usually hanged on the latter –but Nepomuceno believes that every wall behind every painting has a story to tell. He tries to tell that story by painting walls on a canvas that is meant to be placed on walls.
Visit www.artinformal.com for inquiries and more details on this exhibition.
Saturday Fun Machine
Silverlens Galleries, Makati City
Ongoing until April 23
Growing up as a child in Manila in the 1980s, Isabel Roxas is full of memories involving a block of programming devoted to robots, superheroes, and other wild fantasies. And so, the artist explores nostalgia to create work that is deeply personal and specific.
Roxas transcribes the “most banal scenes” of her childhood in the hopes of touching universal experiences of a bygone time and to recreate intimate moments that will transport the viewers through the fractured lens of unreliable memory. She exhibits character portraits of various household helpers, who are inseparable from her memories and moments.
For inquiries, call (02) 816-0044 or send an email to infor@silverlensgalleries.com.
Fernando Zobel: Prints and Drawings
Third Floor Galleries, Ayala Museum, Makati City
Ongoing
The Ayala Museum combines its collections of Fernando Zobel’s artworks with those of Ayala Corporation collections to mount an exhibition that features selected drawings and prints made by the Spanish-Filipino painter and businessman.
The exhibition illustrates how these works on paper are steps toward, or are variations or permutations of, Zobel’s larger works on canvas.
Call (02) 759-8288 local 10 or send an email to hello@ayalamuseum.org for inquiries and more details on this exhibit.