The Makati Artist Guild returns to the SM Megamall Art Center with an exhibit entitled “Rurok”, opening on February 27, 2009 at 6pm. The show features new works from 14 guild members, each expressing personal reflection on the show’s title, the Filipino word for peak, which lends itself to both literal and figurative interpretations.
The works, mostly on canvases a foot square and four feet by three feet, fall into two extremes: age as apex and height as zenith. In the former, Mel Cabriana, Aina Valencia, Fanny Balnco and Abby Yao take youth as a point of departure. Their oil paintings revolve around livelihood, education and play inspired by their on childhoods, or those of their children and grandchildren. Conversely , Lita Gelano finds in elderly Filipinos the summit of experience and a life lived well despite pain and suffering, rounding out the value of wisdom and innocence as peaks that mark one’s lifetime.
Helen Marisol, Peter Sutcliffe, Obi Mapua, Stella Torres and Molly Yap offer various vantage points from which to view the heights of Rurok, from Mirasol’s places of spiritually to Sutcliffe’s “ice cream in excelsis”, from Torres’ birds on a wire to architect Mapua’s historic airplanes, and through Yap’s play with the Chinese characters for the wedded bliss. Rubee Alcantara successfully skims the two common definition of “rurok” in the exhibit by alternately approaching childhood and the sky.
Tess Mapua and Hardian Mendoza tackle their subjects by experimenting with the textures and dimension in their use of mixed media and ceramics, respectively. Like a satellite, the younger Mapua sees the storms unsettling her life as a Filipino artist, while Mendoza lets the rising heat of the kiln work its magic on his functional forms. Thomas Daquioag’s postage stamp of the Philippines personifies the country’s charms with recurring subject, the superhero, at glorifying the natural beauty of the Philippines and lamenting the urban scapes of a billboard state.
MAG was formed in 2002, an offshoot of art workshops at the Ayala Museum. Its members come from various professional backgrounds and range in age from the mid-20s to the mid-7-s, accounting for the diversity in their interests. Through the mentoring of Renato Habulan, also the exhibit’s curator, the MAG members converge through a common desire to create and exhibit their work.
Rurok is a co- presented by Britania Art Projects and will run until March 12, 2009. For more information, please call 387-6373/ 414-7446 or visit www.britaniaartprojects.com
The works, mostly on canvases a foot square and four feet by three feet, fall into two extremes: age as apex and height as zenith. In the former, Mel Cabriana, Aina Valencia, Fanny Balnco and Abby Yao take youth as a point of departure. Their oil paintings revolve around livelihood, education and play inspired by their on childhoods, or those of their children and grandchildren. Conversely , Lita Gelano finds in elderly Filipinos the summit of experience and a life lived well despite pain and suffering, rounding out the value of wisdom and innocence as peaks that mark one’s lifetime.
Helen Marisol, Peter Sutcliffe, Obi Mapua, Stella Torres and Molly Yap offer various vantage points from which to view the heights of Rurok, from Mirasol’s places of spiritually to Sutcliffe’s “ice cream in excelsis”, from Torres’ birds on a wire to architect Mapua’s historic airplanes, and through Yap’s play with the Chinese characters for the wedded bliss. Rubee Alcantara successfully skims the two common definition of “rurok” in the exhibit by alternately approaching childhood and the sky.
Tess Mapua and Hardian Mendoza tackle their subjects by experimenting with the textures and dimension in their use of mixed media and ceramics, respectively. Like a satellite, the younger Mapua sees the storms unsettling her life as a Filipino artist, while Mendoza lets the rising heat of the kiln work its magic on his functional forms. Thomas Daquioag’s postage stamp of the Philippines personifies the country’s charms with recurring subject, the superhero, at glorifying the natural beauty of the Philippines and lamenting the urban scapes of a billboard state.
MAG was formed in 2002, an offshoot of art workshops at the Ayala Museum. Its members come from various professional backgrounds and range in age from the mid-20s to the mid-7-s, accounting for the diversity in their interests. Through the mentoring of Renato Habulan, also the exhibit’s curator, the MAG members converge through a common desire to create and exhibit their work.
Rurok is a co- presented by Britania Art Projects and will run until March 12, 2009. For more information, please call 387-6373/ 414-7446 or visit www.britaniaartprojects.com
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