Innovative vs traditional in ManilART 2022
Now on its 14th year, the just-concluded ManilART fair, a project of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) in partnership with the Bonafide Art Galleries Association (Bago),
Now on its 14th year, the just-concluded ManilART fair, a project of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) in partnership with the Bonafide Art Galleries Association (Bago),
ManilArt, the Philippines’ first major and longest running visual arts fair, will mount its 11th edition Oct. 9-13 at SMX Aura in Taguig City. The flagship project of the National
Vibrant colors, enticing texture and diverse Mindanao features on canvas framed in exquisitely designed hardwood and illuminated by intricately carved ostrich eggs: The artworks, seemingly done by a lone artist, are in fact collaborative pieces by three disparate artists: painter and sculptor of gigantic monuments in Mindanao Ray Mudjahid Ponce Millan aka Kublai Millan, furniture designer Agi Pagkatipunan and sculptor Danny Rayos del Sol.
ManilArt, the pioneering and the biggest visual arts fair in the country, will mark its 10th anniversary on Oct. 17 to 21, with a rich and very extensive mix of exhibits, performances, art and museum tours and lectures and forums that all together attest to the continuing vibrancy of fine arts in the Philippines.
Sculptor Marge Organo presents angular abstract glass forms and incorporates different figurations that play with the diffused light. After several one-woman exhibitions in Makati, Organo will be making her first
Where has Jose Rizal gone? He’s photobombing.
ManilArt fair will kick off its sixth installment with the art caravan, “Salpung,” Aug. 29-31, at Mariyah Gallery in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental. Theme of this year’s art caravan is “Crossing Borders, Bridging Cultures.”
Giving the gift of art to aesthetes and non-connoisseurs alike. A run-off from the success of ManilArt 2013, “Art For All Manila (Afam): The Affordable Art Fair 2014” would run from Feb. 14 to 16 at the posh SM Aura in Taguig City.
I made my first art purchase on a whim. I was browsing through Facebook, when my friend JP Cuison posted a picture of his limited edition “Rizalborg” silkscreen. He was hawking it for P500. Being a huge Rizal fanatic, I quickly snapped one up.
What made ManilArt something to look forward to, at least in its first two years, was the promise of bringing everyone—meaning, serious art collectors and mere art lookers—together in one
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