Double Take takes another look at evolution
Did you really see what you thought you saw? Was what you always knew as real merely a cleverly woven myth? Look at evolution and transformation in Lopez Memorial Museum’s current exhibit, Double Take, featuring works from its permanent collection, LVN archival photographs and a video installation by young director Raya Martin.
According to curatorial consultant Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, “Impassioned battles are waged upon any number of crafted platforms—notions of blood, glory, territory and ultimately, nation. In mining specific aspects of the LVN film still archive, particularly war films spanning several eras of Filipino filmmaking, Martin (the exhibit’s featured artist) counts on the museum infrastructure to set off a playing on the eyes and mind.”
The Lopez Museum's larger gallery spaces show pronouncements from the historian Floro Quibuyen, art historian John Clark and theorist Marian Pastor Roces to set off seminal pieces in the collection by 19th century painters Juan Luna and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo. The two artists are also re-examined in light of discourse and personal communication with the National Hero, Jose Rizal. Within these sites, text and image encounter each other hopefully to engage visitors in reassessing what these icons stand for vis-a-vis such charged concepts as country and parity.
Double Take also invites attention on images that hint at how Luna and Hidalgo saw the everyday as colonial subjects egging for recognition. It also brings to the fore pictorial practice that, in one way or other, propelled the imaginations of individuals ultimately believing they were brothers making up a single race, to take on sword, spear, rifle, and even talismans on bare skin.
Legaspi-Ramirez adds “It is in summoning such clichéd yet still charged tableaus of the real and unreal (like a flank of ‘battle-worn’ shields girding up for a no-holds bared fight) that this exhibition counts on for inquiry, at the very least, to take place. It is in this sense that Double Take hopes to occasion revisitings if not restitution.”
Featured artist Martin (right photo) holds a BA in Film and Audiovisual Communication, cum laude, from the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, and a BA in Journalism from UP Baguio. He is the first Filipino filmmaker to be accepted in the Cinéfondation Résidence of the Cannes Film Festival. His latest works, “Independencia” and “Manila,” were shown at the Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2009 in May.
Double Take runs until September 25, 2009 at the Lopez Memorial Museum is at the ground floor, Benpres Building, Exchange Road, Pasig City. Contact 631-2417 for info.
Did you really see what you thought you saw? Was what you always knew as real merely a cleverly woven myth? Look at evolution and transformation in Lopez Memorial Museum’s current exhibit, Double Take, featuring works from its permanent collection, LVN archival photographs and a video installation by young director Raya Martin.
According to curatorial consultant Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, “Impassioned battles are waged upon any number of crafted platforms—notions of blood, glory, territory and ultimately, nation. In mining specific aspects of the LVN film still archive, particularly war films spanning several eras of Filipino filmmaking, Martin (the exhibit’s featured artist) counts on the museum infrastructure to set off a playing on the eyes and mind.”
The Lopez Museum's larger gallery spaces show pronouncements from the historian Floro Quibuyen, art historian John Clark and theorist Marian Pastor Roces to set off seminal pieces in the collection by 19th century painters Juan Luna and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo. The two artists are also re-examined in light of discourse and personal communication with the National Hero, Jose Rizal. Within these sites, text and image encounter each other hopefully to engage visitors in reassessing what these icons stand for vis-a-vis such charged concepts as country and parity.
Double Take also invites attention on images that hint at how Luna and Hidalgo saw the everyday as colonial subjects egging for recognition. It also brings to the fore pictorial practice that, in one way or other, propelled the imaginations of individuals ultimately believing they were brothers making up a single race, to take on sword, spear, rifle, and even talismans on bare skin.
Legaspi-Ramirez adds “It is in summoning such clichéd yet still charged tableaus of the real and unreal (like a flank of ‘battle-worn’ shields girding up for a no-holds bared fight) that this exhibition counts on for inquiry, at the very least, to take place. It is in this sense that Double Take hopes to occasion revisitings if not restitution.”
Featured artist Martin (right photo) holds a BA in Film and Audiovisual Communication, cum laude, from the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, and a BA in Journalism from UP Baguio. He is the first Filipino filmmaker to be accepted in the Cinéfondation Résidence of the Cannes Film Festival. His latest works, “Independencia” and “Manila,” were shown at the Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2009 in May.
Double Take runs until September 25, 2009 at the Lopez Memorial Museum is at the ground floor, Benpres Building, Exchange Road, Pasig City. Contact 631-2417 for info.
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