SPECIAL FEATURE : POKLONG ANADING
2008 Ateneo Art Awards Winner
Recipient, Common Room Foundation Bandung Residency Grant
Poklong Anading finds value in the most mundane objects. The rubble that he uses in this work is debris from a road digging near the 18th Avenue compound where the artist and his friends maintain their studios; while the kaleidoscopic patterns adorning them are taken from discarded rags. Seeing a woman on a street sewing these rags together from scrap with absolutely no regard for design inspired Anading to overcome his self-professed fear of color.
Anading's practice while very cerebral, is firmly rooted in his Cubao environs. Although Fallen Map is not meant to be social commentary, it inadvertently becomes so given that the work renders the artist's perception of the world around him. By questioning his milieu, Anading makes us rethink our own reality, giving voice to the unheard thoughts of the ordinary person on the street. By saying, "I don't know what's going on," referring to the seemingly unnecessary bi-annual road work, he hits the nail on the head.
2008 Ateneo Art Awards Winner
Recipient, Common Room Foundation Bandung Residency Grant
Poklong Anading finds value in the most mundane objects. The rubble that he uses in this work is debris from a road digging near the 18th Avenue compound where the artist and his friends maintain their studios; while the kaleidoscopic patterns adorning them are taken from discarded rags. Seeing a woman on a street sewing these rags together from scrap with absolutely no regard for design inspired Anading to overcome his self-professed fear of color.
Anading's practice while very cerebral, is firmly rooted in his Cubao environs. Although Fallen Map is not meant to be social commentary, it inadvertently becomes so given that the work renders the artist's perception of the world around him. By questioning his milieu, Anading makes us rethink our own reality, giving voice to the unheard thoughts of the ordinary person on the street. By saying, "I don't know what's going on," referring to the seemingly unnecessary bi-annual road work, he hits the nail on the head.
Virgilio "Pandy" Aviado paid Anading perhaps one of the greatest compliments that a senior artist could give a young colleague: "I started to look at rubble with a different perspective...I began a new way of looking at things...He was able to teach me something new in aesthetics."
When Robert Irwin describes art as a "continuous examination of our perceptual awareness and a continuous expansion of our awareness of the world around us," he seems to be referring to Anading's accomplishment in Fallen Map.
--Yael Buencamino
Fallen map
POKLONG ANADING
26 January-14 February
Mag:net Katipunan
The Ateneo Art Gallery would like to announce the final call for nominations for the 2009 Ateneo Art Awards. Nominations are on-going, and will close on 1 June 2009 at 5pm. Nomination forms are available at the Ateneo Art Gallery and can also be downloaded at http://gallery.ateneo.edu. All entries must be accompanied by the necessary visual documentation and received at the following address:
Ateneo Art Gallery
Ground Floor, Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University
Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City Philippines 1108
For more information, please contact, Amanda Legasto, 2009 Ateneo Art Awards Project Coordinator at 4266488 or alegasto@ateneo.edu
Ateneo Art Gallery
Ground Floor, Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University
Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City Philippines 1108
For more information, please contact, Amanda Legasto, 2009 Ateneo Art Awards Project Coordinator at 4266488 or alegasto@ateneo.edu
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