Junyee 1st Mindanao artist to bag Gawad CCP award
Widely acknowledged as a pioneer in installation and environmental art, Luis Enano Yee Jr., better known as Junyee, is one of 12 recipients of this year’s Gawad CCP Para sa
Widely acknowledged as a pioneer in installation and environmental art, Luis Enano Yee Jr., better known as Junyee, is one of 12 recipients of this year’s Gawad CCP Para sa
Pioneering installation artist Junyee couldn’t have timed it better if he had planned it himself. He had been working on a large bamboo installation on the front lawn of Vargas
I can be a social animal when I need to be, but I prefer solitude,” says Luis Yee Jr., better known as the installation artist Junyee.
The musical is written by Layeta Bucoy, with music composed and arranged by Dodjie Fernandez and Upeng Fernandez. Direction is by Audie Gemora, and set design is by Toym Imao.
At first, the larger-than-life crisscrossed balag that framed the audiences as they walked inside the auditorium were for aesthetics. But the moment the stage design and the spatial intervention in
BALAG, the Musical is based on the life story of installation artist, Junyee.
Seminal” is a word often overused to describe artists who are merely influential.
“Sootine” is what you may want to christen Junyee, the appellation adverting to the Jewish Expressionist painter Chaim Soutine. That’s after you have seen the Filipino artist’s recent art production using a most unconventional medium—soot.
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