Art Exhibition: Lopez Museum's "Articles of Disagreement" | September 18-December 20, 2014

Dive deep into the treasure trove of Lopez Museum as their new exhibition, "Articles of Disagreements," which opened last September 18 and will run until December 20, 2014.

The exhibition focuses on art forms that will unearth the different forms of art writing and anecdotes of criticism in Philippine art history. Articles of Disagreements was born out of a specific pool of major texts found in the Lopez Library archives and focuses on the reflexive practices of contemporary artists, as diverse occupations in the Arts are explored to unburden itself from established institutional forms.

Bencab's "Graphics: A Print Retrospective" (May 12-June 12, 2011)

From NCCA website:

In celebration of the Heritage Month this May, the NCCA Gallery holds a print retrospective of BenCab, which includes the most essential outputs in the printmaking medium done by our National Artist Benedicto Cabrera. BENCAB Graphics: A Print Retrospective includes the most essential outputs in the printmaking medium by our National Artist Benedicto Cabrera or popularly known as BENCAB. 

PAP holds Printmaking Workshop this Summer

Printmakers Association of the Philippines (PAP) holds Printmaking Workshop this Summer 2010. Learn the basics in making fine prints using varied printmaking techniques this summer. The workshop is designed for beginners and those who have tried printmaking and want to refresh the processes in making fine prints. 

The course covers rubbercut, collagraph and drypoint, but will also allot a session for monotype printing and will also include color enhancement through chinecolle.

Workshop will be conducted by Benjie Torrado Cabrera and Ambie Abaño.

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Coverage:  Rubbercut, Collagraph, Drypoint, Monotype, Chinecolle
Duration:  April 21 to May 14, 2010  
Days:  Wednesdays and Fridays
Time:   8:00 am to 12:00 noon
Venue:  PAP Workshop, Rear of Folk Arts Theater, CCP Complex, Pasay City
Workshop fee:  Php 5,500.00 including materials

For inquiries, reservation, registration:
Contact #: +63.916.7901769 / +63.917.8227682 or email: pinoyprintmakers@gmail.com
LIMITED SLOTS only.

If interested, you  may reserve slot by sending an e-mail of your request to pinoyprintmakers@gmail.com.  Please include your full name, cell phone number and/or landline number.  We will send text or call you 2 days before the start of classes to confirm your attendance.

Payment may be done in 2 installments as follows:  Php 3,000.00 on the first day of classes, April 21, Wednesday, and the Php 2,500.00 on the fourth meeting, April 30, Friday.

Certificate of attendance will be issued by the PAP on the last day for all participants who finish the course. PAP workshop is located at the rear of the Folk Arts Theater in CCP (Cultural Center of the Philippines) Complex. 

The map leading to the workshop venue:

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BAKÁS Traces the Path of Philippine Contemporary Printmaking: An Art Exhibition (plus a Book Launch)

The Philippine Association of Printmakers (PAP) celebrates its 40th Anniversary with Bakás: Limampung Taon ng Malikhaing Paglilimbag (Fifty Years of Printmaking) at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.  The exhibit opens on 26 November, Thursday, 5 pm at the Bulwagang Juan Luna (Main Gallery), 3/F Main Theater Building.

The art of fine printmaking has drawn the interest of local artists since the 1950s.  But it was not until the 1960s that training was made available to young artists through the efforts of Manuel Rodriguez Sr. In 1969, the PAP was formed with most of his students and himself as founding members.

   

Printmaking may not attract as many followers as the art of painting but it continues to sustain a constant group of committed practitioners and advocates who have established their reputation in this fine art medium. Through workshops and lectures, PAP members have encouraged veteran and young artists to explore printmaking using traditional and experimental methods.  Current PAP officers conceived of this anniversary event to give recognition to artists within and outside the PAP who have supported and promoted its cause.

The exhibit begins with a brief historical overview marking highlights in printmaking practice and the growth of the PAP. The main part focuses on the different printmaking techniques done in the four basic printing methods namely serigraphy, relief, intaglio, and planographic process.  In each section works by artists across decades will reveal the range of styles and creativity that can be achieved through technical variations and experimentations. 

Selected works from the CCP print collection serves as the core of the exhibition.  By itself, it is already a significant gathering of works. Other works are loaned from artists, institutional and private collections. Featured works include those by national artists Vicente Manansala, Cesar Legaspi, Jerry Elizalde Navarro, Arturo Luz and Bencab, and past PAP officials Adiel Arevalo, Ivy Avellana-Cosio, Brenda Fajardo, Imelda Cajipe-Endaya, Romulo Olazo, Pandy Aviado, Fil dela Cruz, and Raul Isidro.  The exhibit will also feature artists who are not strictly practitioners in this art form but have incorporated printmaking techniques and concepts with different mediums, e.g., painting and sculpture, thus creating hybrid and mixed media works. These include Roberto Chabet, Gerry Tan, Raymundo Albano, and Fernando Modesto. Altogether, the exhibit will feature over eighty artists representing different periods, generations, and styles.

The opening will be preceded by the book launch of Manuel Rodiguez, Sr.: Into the Threshold at 4 pm in the same venue.  Mr. Rodriguez will be among the honored guests during the opening event.  This exhibit is organized in cooperation with the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.  

" Bakás: Fifty Years of Printmaking" will be on view until 30 January 2010.

Andres Barrioquinto's "The Gods of Small Things" (Oct 17-Nov 7, 2009)

Currently dubbed as the master of the dark and the mysterious by contemporary art critics, Andres Barrioquinto traverses deep into the soul of asian art and focuses on the detailed, colorful approach of early Japanese prints for his new set of works. And as Japanese art has often been characterized with its unique harmonizing of polarities, Barrioquinto creates a dichotomy of his own through such portraitures of gloom and paranoia narrated in a calm, relaxing manner. “Disorders make a person beautiful. Because when you are not perfect, that’s when you strive to be. So basically, defect and beauty comes close hand in hand. And sometimes a dent could even emphasize the beauty of something.” Barrioquinto explains. 

In this show, the artist has also applied a detailed layering of patterns, so as to further emphasize the repetitive, machinated feel of contemporary prints.  According to the artist, this show is definitely different from his past anthology of works, because he believes that his new paintings are all equally strong in terms of visual impact. A recurring parade of flowers, cranes, and crows are distinctly playing around his latest batch of portraits. 

However, if studied very closely, it is also highly noticeable that the overflowing washes of patterns are but masks to the dark, grim personas trapped inside his emotionally saturated paintings. “These are imperfect entities lost in a beautiful world.” Barrioquinto explains. 

Recently hailed by The Business Times Weekend as a ”Master in the Making”, Andres Barrioquinto’s work matures into a finer, more detailed form, which has evolved both in technical quality and concept. However, despite all these rapid, constant changes, he still retains his signature insignia of morbidity and despair, carefully cloaked in the atmosphere of dark melancholy in his recent works. 

Through a façade of vibrant hues and embellishments, Barrioquinto continues to emanate an undetected presence of a black hole that exists inside every one of us. Through the aide of such visual paradoxes he continues to show it and take his audience away into a world of his own untamed imaginings, where destruction is redefined as the springboard of beauty, and eventually the endpoint of it. Overall, The Gods of Small Things is an inevitable journey to madness, forcing a certain twinge of confusion to the senses through the contrasted marriage of darkness and beauty, of serenity and discord.

“Some paintings are not meant to be beautiful,” Barrioquinto says in a mysterious tone while manually depicting a sea of designs shrouding the entirety of his large scaled canvasses. With this perfect quote he ends the interview.

The Gods of Small Things opened last Saturday, October 17 6pm, at the blanc compound 359 Shaw Blvd., Mandaluyong City. For more information, please call or sms (632) 752.0032 / +63.920.9276436, email info@blanc.ph or visit www.blanc.ph , www.blancartspace.multiply.com

The Gods of Small Things runs until November 7, 2009.