EVENTS
In celebration of Art Month, the Ateneo Art Gallery will hold a series of lectures on contemporary art with Professor Tony Godfrey who will explore the art of our time for seven evenings in February at the Ateneo Professional Schools in Makati City. The lectures and discussions will cover the different movements that have emerged since the 1960s, the artists that defined these movements, and the different art forms that are currently seen in exhibitions, art fairs and biennials. The lectures, which will be held from 5-8 p.m. at the Blue Room of the Ateneo Professional Schools, 20 Rockwell Drive, Rockwell Center, Makati, are as follows: Feb. 3: Answering questions like “When did Contemporary Art start?” “What was wrong with Modernism?,” the lecture will cover the work of Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol; Feb. 9: answering questions like “What is Conceptual Art?” “Why did it matter?,” the lecture will cover the work of Bruce Nauman, Joseph Beuys, and On Kawara; Feb. 10: the lecture will tackle photography, video and other media from 1980 to 2010, focusing on the work of Bill Viola, Jeff Wall, and Hirosho Sugimoto; Feb. 11: the lecture will cover sculpture and installation art from 1977 to 2010, focusing on the work of Richard Serra, Anthony Gormley, and Anne Hamilton; Feb. 16: the lecture will cover painting from 1980 to 2010, focusing on the work of Gerhard Richter, Luc Tuymans, and Marlene Dumas; Feb. 23: Art Today; Feb. 24: Painting Today. The course fee is P5,600 for seven lectures, and P1,000 for one lecture. For details on the course, e-mail rtalamayan@ateneo.edu or call the Ateneo Art Gallery at 426-6488. Slots are limited.
EXHIBITS
Blanc gallery starts the eyar with one solo show and a group exhibit. Free Energy features the works of Louie Cordero, while Melted City 3 is a group show of works by Rolf Campos, Kawayan de Guia, Nona Garcia, Hiro Kurata, Chelsey Pettyjohn, and Masuyama Yuji, among several others. The exhibits are on view until Feb. 6 at the gallery located at 145 Katipunan Ave., St. Ignatius Village, QC. For details e-mail info@blanc.ph.
Vinyl On Vinyl starts the year with three shows which are on view until Feb. 6 at Warehouse 2, 2135 Chino Roces Ave., Makati City. Urbanized Indio by Kris Abrigo (Main Gallery) is an exhibit of paintings which are a personal narrative about the artist’s experiences after moving from rural communes to urban conditions. The artist will be showing new works that are both indoor and outdoor installations. A set of small canvases is to be installed as a series. Individual small to medium sized artworks will also be on display. A monumental mural outside the gallery will be one of the highlights of this exhibit. This is Abrigo’s second solo at Vinyl On Vinyl. Artificial Flavor by Tyang Karyel is on view at the Left Wing. The artist aims to showcase her take on the modern traditions as well as folk arts and satirically tackle people’s love for pop culture, nostalgia and food. She works in painting, mixed media and sculpture using wood. Sexobyot by illustrator and comic book artist Apol Sta. Maria is on view at the Upper Gallery. For more information on the shows, e-mail info@vinylonvinylgallery.com or visit vinylonvinylgallery.com.
The Ateneo Art Gallery presents Octoroon, an exhibit of works by Peta Clancy, Helen Pynor, Bindi Cole Chocka and Steven Rhall. Michael Brenan and Chocka curated this travelling exhibition from A LUMA/La Trobe University Museum of Art. The exhibit — which features three video and photographic installations dealing with issues of identituy and representation from the indigenous perspective — will be on view from Jan. 25 to March 26. There will be an ArtSpeak lecture with curator Mr. Brennan on Jan. 25, 4 p.m., before the exhibit proper opens at 6 p.m. The exhibit will be held at the Ateneo Art Gallery, Rizal Library Special Collections Building, Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Ave., QC.
The upcoming 18th solo exhibit of mixed media by Filipino artist and writer Maria Victoria Rufino is entitled Luminiscence – Dreamscapes 2016. Presented at the Peninsula Manila’s The Gallery, it will open on Feb. 2 and will be open to the public from Feb 3 to 7. Proceeds will benefit the Child Protection Network Foundation. Rufino is a Director of Alliance Francaise de Manille and executive producer of Maverick Productions. She is a regular columnist of BusinessWorld, and has won awards from the Manila Critics Circle and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and a Gawad CCP for best TV special from the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Formal Elements, an exhibit of works by Irma Lacorte, is on view at Galleria Duemila until Jan. 30. The exhibit features a series of pencil drawings on circular 122 cm wood panels prepared and coated with emulsion and gesso. Here, Lacorte works with amassed images from old coffee table books and reverts to the basics of image making by isolating or expanding line, texture, form, and tonal value. Lacorte is an accomplished artist who has also been exhibited at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and at St. Paul’s Gallery Columbia University in New York. Galleria Duemila is located at 210 Loring St., Pasay City.
The exhibit The Oxymoron of Patterns is ongoing until Feb. 27 at the 12th floor, SDA Amphitheater, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde along Pablo Ocampo St., Malate, Manila. Produced by the Center for Campus Art, the exhibit “explores the narratives of these systems of patterns, how they behave, act, react, breathe and live in the spaces of existence.”
On view at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’s Bulwagang Juan Luna and Pasilyo Juan Luna is Chromatext Rebooted. Co-curated by Jean Marie Syjuco and Krip Yuson, the group show involves artworks based on, coupled with, or related to words, poems, prose, or any kind of visual art executed by poets/writers including abstract, sculptural, conceptual and digital works. Collaborations between writers and artists are also featured. The exhibit is on view until Jan. 17.
RE:VIEW 2015, a year-end group show, is on view at the BenCab Museum’s Gallery Indigo until Feb. 7. The show features the works of 38 artists including Leonard Aguinaldo, Virgilio Aviado, BenCab, Marina Cruz, Emmanuel Garibay, Kawayan de Guia, Winner Jumalon, Arturo Luz, Raffy Napay, Leeroy New, Ramon Orlina, Soler Santos, Rodel Tapaya, and Olan Ventura. Also on exhibit at the museum’s Print Gallery is Philippine Views, an exhibition of 18th to 19th century prints. The BenCab Museum is located at Km. 6 Asin Road, Tuba, Metro Baguio.
The Vargas Museum at UP Diliman in Quezon City starts the new year with the exhibition BenCab: Another Scale, part of the year-long celebration of National Artist Benedicto “BenCab” Cabrera’s 50 years as an artist.
Art Informal starts the new year with three shows, which are on view until Feb. 6. At the Main Gallery is Begin, a group exhibition by nine young artists — Pope Bacay, Julia Barrameda, Mars Bugaoan, Pin Calacal, Camille Cabatingan, Andie Harn, Kitty Kaburo, Henrielle Pagkaliwangan, and Veronica Pee — who are treading the various personal and impersonal geographies of beginnings. The Big Room houses Being, featuring an installation by Jacob Lindo. The Inner Room has Hagiography, a show of portraits by Jun Jun Sta. Ana. The gallery is at 277 Connecticut St., Greenhills East, Mandaluyong City.
The Metropolitan Museum of Manila takes its turn in celebrating the 50 creative years of National Artist BenCab (Benedicto Cabrera) with a retrospective exhibition that runs until Feb. 27. The museum is located at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila. For details, e-mail info@metmuseum.ph.
Galleria Duemila in partnership Greenbelt presents New Life, a public sculpture exhibition by Impy Pilapil. The exhibit runs until Feb. 28, 2016 at Greenbelt Park, Makati City. For details, call 831-9990, e-mail gduemila@gmail.com, or visit www.galleriaduemila.com.
PERFORMANCE
Bituing Walang Ningning (The Musical) has performances at the Newport Performing Arts Theater in Resorts World Manila until January. Starring Mark Bautista, Antoinette Taus and Monica Cuenco, it is based on the famous film of the same name about an established star who finds herself competing for fame and love with a newcomer. Directed by Freddie Santos. For details, visit www.ticketworld.com.ph, or call 891-9999.
Repertory Philippines presents Ken Ludwig’s comedy The Games Afoot. Directed by Miguel Faustmann, there are performances until Feb. 7 at the Onstage Theatre, 2nd Floor, Greenbelt 1, Paseo de Roxas St., Makati City. For details, visit www.ticketworld.com.ph, or call 891-9999.
The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra presents The PPO Concert Series V on Jan. 22, 8 p.m., at the Main Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City. The orchestra, under the baton of Tetsuji Honna, will perform Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 and Strauss’s “Rosenkavalier” Suite. Tickets range in price from P300 to P1,500. For details, visit www.ticketworld.com.ph, or call 891-9999.
Internationally acclaimed Filipina pianist Cecile Licad will have a concert together with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) under the baton of Olivier Ochanine, on Jan. 28, 8 p.m., at the Main Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). Cecile Licad Encore! — co-production of the Philippine Italian Association and the CCP — will feature a repertoire including Rossini’s Overture to Italian Girl in Algiers, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Proceeds of the concert will go to the Philippine Italian Association Endowment Fund and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra United States of America Tour in June 2016. Tickets range in price from P500 to P5,000, and are available through the CCP Box Office (832-3704) and TicketWorld (891-9999).
RETROWORLD: REtroSPECT Reunion Concert Tour 2016 will be held on Jan. 29, 8 p.m., at the Music Museum, Greenhills Shopping Center,, San Juan City. Tickets range in price from P300 to P1,500. For details, visit www.ticketworld.com.ph, or call 891-9999.
Livin’ La Vida Imelda, Carlos Celdran’s one-man performance about the 1970s, Martial Law, and the life of the flamboyant former first lady will have performances at the Pineapple Lab, 6071 R. Palma Street, Poblacion, Makati City, on Jan. 29, 30, and 31, 8:30 p.m. To reserve tickets, which cost P1,000, 0920-909-2021 or e-mail celdrantours@hotmail.com (subject: Imelda) to reserve.
PETA’s upcoming production, 3 Stars and a Sun, presents a dystopian future set to the music of the late Francis Magalona. After one particular deadly storm, the government decides to construct the Stormdome, a shelter that blocks out the sky and has millions of security cameras. The musical will feature 20 songs by Mr. Magalona, including his hits and some unfamiliar ones, including surprises like a song with a kundiman structure infused with rock. The cast includes Paolo Valenciano, Gio Gahol, Nicco Manalo, Gold Villar, Che Ramos-Cosio, Carla Guevara-Laforteza, Bodjie Pascua, Raffy Tejada, and Giannina Ocampo. The musical will run from Feb. 4 to March 6 at the PETA-PHINMA Theater at the PETA Theater Center, No. 5 Eymard Drive, New Manila, Quezon City. For details, call 725-6244, or visit petatheater.com or ticketworld.com.ph.
