ART IN HOUSE AT THE PICASSO PRESENTS A TALK ON
Migration and Integration Patterns Among Filipino Artists Today by Sandra Palomar
Art in House at The Picasso offers a free lecture to the public on Migration and Integration Patterns Among Filipino Artists Today by Sandra Palomar on Saturday, 17 September 2011 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the 4F Gallery of The Picasso Boutique Serviced Residences, 119 Leviste Street, Salcedo Village, Makati. This is in connection to the current exhibition MACARIO VITALIS MIGRANT PAINTER, which runs until October 1, 2011.
Migration in the last century did not spare our country of artists who lived and worked in cultural climates diametric to ours. Macario Vitalis, Filipino painter influenced by French modernism, left his hometown in Ilocos Sur to embark on his journey as migrant of 45 years, the most part in a province west of France. How did Vitalis’ integration evolve? What did this bring upon his art making and to the community immediately in contact with his works? Interviews with contemporary artists who have lived abroad and who work in different media will enrich the discussion of the Filipino artist’s experience of socio-cultural adaptation today. In this age of computer technology and new media, how are migration patterns of artists changing in face of increased mobility and capital?
Sandra Palomar lived and worked in France after finishing a degree in painting from the UP College of Fine Arts (1992). She pursued further studies in Paris, receiving a prize for multi-media from the Ecole Nationale Supérièure des Beaux-Arts. She was assistant to two major French multi-media artists and a textile designer for whom Palomar has established a workshop in Antipolo City where she now resides since 2008. Her work endeavors to breach the gap between subject and experience in art through translation and dissemination. She considers her resettlement in the country as part of her art process.
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