“Philippine Pride in Paris,” reported one dispatch about the opening of the grand exhibit “Philippines: Archipel des Échanges (Philippines: Archipelago of Exchange)” last April 8 at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault of France and Vice President Jejomar Binay of the Philippines inaugurated the exhibit “Philippines: Archipel des Échanges (Philippines: Archipelago of Exchange)” last April 8 at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris.
“Manila as an international art city.” This is what widely and critically-acclaimed Filipino artist and curator Manuel Ocampo envisions for the country’s capital city. Ocampo, who has extensively exhibited his works in major art capitals around the world including Europe, Asia, and the United States, is on a personal mission to bring the Philippine art community at par with its global counterparts.
As Filipino contemporary artists earn international acclaim, dedicated arts patrons Lisa Ongpin Periquet and Trickie C. Lopa felt it was high time to shine the spotlight on these talents here at home.
Twenty-twelve was a year of retrospectives in the Philippine art world. The most significant from the vantage point of art history would be the multiple shows (at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, UST Museum, UP Vargas Museum and Metropolitan Museum) to mark the 10th birth anniversary of National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco.
Ronald Ventura’s “Crack in the Hull” (2001) depicts two male nudes riding a boat, evoking the ancient Manunggul jar’s lid.
Famous for his glass sculptures, Ramon Orlina, a seminal figure in Philippine art, has managed to stand well above his contemporaries by mastering a unique and powerful medium. By making glass sculptures bend to details of figurations-a woman’s torso, a couple’s embrace-and grouping them with glass abstractions of various shades of pink, amber, cobalt, and [...]
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