EL GUERNICA: DECONSTRUCCION

AYALA MUSEUM AND SPANISH EMBASSY TIE UP FOR REINTERPRETATION OF PICASSO'S GUERNICA

Ayala Museum and the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines will be presenting an exhibition entitled "El Guernica: Deconstrucción" at the Ground Floor Gallery of Ayala Museum. It will be available for public viewing beginning 7 June until 7 August 2011.

The Philippines and Spain are two countries with a long historical relationship, with strong connections still present in our language, customs, traditions, culture, and art.

"El Guernica: Deconstrucción" takes a different angle to that relationship through new works of art by a pool of selected Filipino and Spanish contemporary artists who will hold a "dialogue" with Pablo Picasso's painting, Guernica. Based on a grid image of the Guernica from an edition of the Revista Poesía dedicated to the said work, participating artists will choose portions of the artwork to interpret. All these works will be assembled and installed together.

This exhibition also follows through last year's highly successful "El Prado Project: Dialogue with the Masters," where Filipino and Spanish artists also re-interpreted masterful artworks housed at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Spain.

"El Guernica: Deconstrucción" is sponsored by Mapfre Insular Insurance Corporation, Indra Sistemas, and Instituto de Turismo de España (TURESPAÑA). Additional support was provided by Museo Reina Sofía, Narciso Abril, Carlos Alberdi, Manuel Borja-Villel, Andres Soria, Fernando Muñoz and Javier Menéndez.

Ayala Museum is located at Makati Avenue

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS IN EL GUERNICA: DECONSTRUCCIÓN

Philippines/Philippine-based

Ma. Victoria “Ambie” Abaño Nunelucio Alvarado Virgillio Aviado Pablo Baen Santos Cesar Caballero Charlie Co Igan d’Bayan Reynold de la Cruz Antipas Delotavo Ramon Diaz Ferdinand Doctolero Alfredo Esquillo Roedil Geraldo Dennis Gonzales Noell El Farol Willy Tadeo Layug Manuel Ocampo Mervy Pueblo Roberto M.A. Robles Juvenal Sanso Cesare A.X. Syjuco Toto Tarrosa Benjie Torrado Cabrera Betsy Westendorp Jaime Zobel de Ayala

Spain

Baylón José Manuel Broto Ricardo Cadenas Ceesepe Chema Cobo José Cobo Alberto Corazón Cristián Domecq Cesar Fernández Arias Belén Franco Carlos Franco Alberto García Alix Gloria García-Lorca Jacobo Gavira Luis Gordillo Begoña Goyenechea Menchu Lamas Noni Lazaga Jaime Lorente Eva Lootz Antonio Novillo Montserrat de Pablo Antón Patiño Carlos Pazos Manolo Quejido Gloria Rodríguez Manuel Salinas Juan Ugalde