A LARGE painting of a red horse, red combat soldiers and a warplane in front of a stone relief of medieval warring crusaders was apocalyptic. Demet dela Cruz painted similar doomsday themes of the horse with contrasting images, as if saying that what happened in the past was going on in the present and into the future.
AS J Consunji nears the completion of his series of paintings, a unifying theme finally emerges from the volatile imagery: It has developed into a collection of raw thoughts and moments bound by a sense of place. The series has become a confession of the contemporary struggles of a hot and humid city, befitting its title “Tropica.”
TETSUYA Noda, considered by some as “the best printmaker in contemporary Japan,” unwittingly created in the 1960s the counterpart of today’s social-media sites like Facebook and Instagram. Gallery-goers can now
ONE LOOKS at these new works and wonders why, in one exhibition, Omi Reyes’ works were included in a steampunk show. In an art scene mad for the trendiness of what’s hot and what’s not, steampunk art may be the current rage, but it’s not where Reyes’ work should have been caged.
THE ILOILO visual-arts scene has become exuberant with the rise of galleries and new artists.
THE INDEPENDENT art scene in Metro Manila will be the emphasis of 2016 Art Dubai’s Marker, a curated program of galleries and art spaces that runs alongside the fair’s Contemporary
THE NATIONAL Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Gallery is holding the exhibit “Angel Cacnio: Angel of Art,” featuring the senior artist’s works from the 1950s to the present.
LEÓN Gallery’s quarterly auction this December, Kingly Treasures, will bid out items from the J. Antonio Araneta collection.
Cid Reyes at Ricco Renzo CURRENTLY on view at Ricco Renzo Gallery is a collection of works by artist-critic Cid Reyes, titled “Wind Storm Series.” Reyes explores the surface dynamics
LIKE a trick of the light, Archivo 1984 is a gallery surrounded by urban sprawl, art hiding in plain sight. On Chino Roces Avenue, between the streets of Dela Rosa
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