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Superstitious Pigeons
Gab Baez, Miles Villanueva | October 20 – November 7, 2019 Imagine this: a hungry pigeon is placed in a box with one inconspicuous light on the wall. The bird spins unconsciously, the light shines a bright red, and a hidden window slides open, revealing a container filled with food. The bird eats excitedly, but… Read more
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Drawer Gag
Dyam Gonzales, Koki Lxx, Mady Santos, Mark L. Bugante, Pau Tiu | October 20 – November 7, 2019
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Lost Years 2
Alvin Zafra, JC Jacinto, Gino Bueza, Zean Cabangis, Lec Cruz | October 20 – November 7, 2019 Alternate Trajectories An artist’s solo exhibition suggests a unity of theme, a coherent vision. It’s an equivalent to a novel with well-woven chapters, a music album that transitions smoothly from one track to the next. But what happens… Read more
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Through the Depths of Space
Jason Montinola | September 29 – October 13, 2019
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Ellipses
Valerie Chua | September 29 – October 13, 2019
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Open Ended
Lec Cruz | September 29 – October 13, 2019 “The light wraps you in its mortal flame.” -Pablo Neruda In the dead of night, descending from thousands of feet above the ground, a glimpse of the busy city below seems static. The distance from the plane to the concrete terrain creates a fascinating illusion –… Read more
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Stop Drawing On Your Brother’s Face
Xian Lim | September 29 – October 13, 2019
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Reclaiming Boundaries
Gwen Bautista, Rowshan Begum, Tammy De Roca, Julianne Ng, Shannah Orencio, Faye Pamintuan, Camille Quintos, Mai Saporsantos, Atsuko Yamagata | September 8 – September 22, 2019
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You Are What You Cheat
Lindslee | September 8 – September 22, 2019 You are What You Cheat, the solo exhibition of Lindslee, features representations of food, domestic objects, and one life-size sculpture of an obese woman, with a taxidermized duck on her head. Writ large and unnerving for their verisimilitude, such objects, bought and consumed mindlessly for their convenience and… Read more
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Ficciones
Igan D’Bayan | September 8 – September 22, 2019 For years now, Igan D’Bayan has been plumbing the mind’s dark recesses, releasing terrors and tragedies as noonday demons, performing on the pictorial surface cult-like ceremonies as antidote to the casualness of modernity, conjuring grand orgies in which the human, the bestial, and the divine exchange… Read more
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Not Finish, Until Finish
Neil Pasilan | September 8 – September 22, 2019 In his solo exhibition, Not Finish, Until Finish, Neil Pasilan raises questions with regard to what point a painting is deemed completed, echoing the sentiments attributed to Leonardo da Vinci: “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” In a suite of works which the artist began at different times… Read more
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Homeward
CJ Tañedo | August 18, 2019 The Harmonious Hand Cj Tañedo’s style of figuration is characterized by devoted, fastidious strokes, harking back to the Renaissance tradition. Every dash of color, every modelling of form, every aspect of composition accrues to a unified whole. Such a deliberate, almost contemplative effort results in works that are ethereal,… Read more
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Cuentos Interruptus
Dengcoy Miel | August 18, 2019 Alternative Histories Who owns history? In his latest solo exhibition, Cuentos Interruptus, DengCoy Miel continues his abiding interest in investigating the national psyche and its dark underbelly by examining history, the collective memory that assumes the privilege of the text. Amid the proliferation of fake news and the so-called alternative facts,… Read more
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Diverse Recollection
RC Caringal, Maribel Magpoc, Paula Reyes | August 18, 2019 Body of Memory In this three-woman exhibition, Diverse Recollection, RC Caringal, Maribel Magpoc, and Paula Reyes demonstrate the varieties and vagaries of human experience and how, in their various accumulations, determine the contours of the biography of how it is to be a woman, an artist, and… Read more
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An Art Exhibit
Beejay Esber, Neil DC, Don Dalmacio | August 18, 2019 Feeding the Monster A URL link that directs the viewer to images when “art exhibit” is keyed in Google is what constitutes the impossibly long title of this exhibition. Such decision is reflective of how paintings—no matter their location or where they are exhibited—get swallowed… Read more
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Human Being Being Human
Candice Arellano | July 28, 2019 What is the measure of a life? In the works of Candice Arellano for her solo exhibition, Human Being, Being Human, it is a square—a shape of ultimate balance and proportion—on which she lovingly devotes her attention to create inspired patterns reflective of her inner life. “Each square,” she states, “is… Read more
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Mortal Shells
Edrick Daniel | July 28, 2019 In his sixth solo exhibition, Mortal Shells, Edrick Daniel shifts his focus from the metaphorical heart of his previous show to the head which has been prized as the most important part of the body through history. It is where supposedly the intellect, the consciousness, all the five senses reside. Some… Read more
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Flower Box
Shannon Orencio | July 28, 2019 In her solo exhibition, Flower Box, Shannah Orencio returns to one of her favored subject matter: flowers. Just like in her previous shows, her interest lies not in rendering the thick, fragrant blossoms in their prime but as shriveled up remnants of a once happy time, collected in a box, their… Read more
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Fair Tales
Philipp Ines | July 28, 2019 Perya, the fair that moves from town to town with its mix bag of games and rides, is the main inspiration behind the solo exhibition, Fair Tales, by Philipp Ines. The artist, who grew up in Ilocos Sur, is all too familiar with the expectation and delight with which townsfolk anticipate it,… Read more
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Act NaturaLEE
Romeo Lee | July 7, 2019
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Erep
Edz Calimlim, Jojit Solano | July 7, 2019
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Last Painting Syndrome
Jayson Oliveria | July 7, 2019 Pete and Repeat were painting. Pete went out dancing. Who was left?
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Endemic Fantasy
AIDS, Steven Yago Burce, Pepe Delfin, Kulog Kuwago, Pogs Samson, Christian Tablazon, Russell Yasay | June 16, 2019 The exhibition reanalyzes portions of Philippine culture to create different works of art that both highlights and critics our nationalistic identity. The artists uses various materials and concepts from different parts of the country as guidelines and… Read more
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Langit
Jun-Jun Sta. Ana | June 16, 2019
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Empty Nest
Mars Bugaoan | June 16, 2019
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Empty Rooms
Steph Lopez | May 26, 2019 House of Memory A home is not just an architectural shell, but something more powerful, archetypal: a conveyor of hopes, dreams, and memories; a shared destiny among those who call themselves as family. It is not merely a container of lives but life itself. In the vernacular language, only… Read more
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Kain Po Tayo
Robert Langenegger | May 26, 2019 Vulgar Appetites For his solo exhibition, Kain Po Tayo, Robert Langenegger taps into the genre of still life through a smorgasbord of dishes familiar to Filipinos, consumed on a daily basis as breakfast or laid out as a feast in special occasions by the beach. Food is intertwined with our collective… Read more
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Die Monster Die
Ronald Achacoso, Alex Aguilar, Dodo Dayao, Romeo Lee, Jonathan Olazo, Omar Taleon, Cris Villanueva | May 26, 2019
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Sapiens Artist
Henri Lamy | April 14, 2019
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Scratches
Julius Redillas | April 14, 2019 Making Mark Julius Claveria Redillas is notable for his unique foray into the genre of portraiture in that the depicted figures—sometimes with missing facial features, sometimes swaddled by a cloud of flaming red hair—are not based on actual people. Composites of different facial traits, they are hybrid identities, real… Read more
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Res Judicata
Joy “JFR2” Rojas II | April 14, 2019 Habitations in Space and Time In legal parlance, res judicata (which, from Latin, means “a matter [already] judged”), which lends the title to the exhibition, refers to a case that has already been closed because of a final judgment and is no longer subject to appeal. Such a conclusive… Read more
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Bombardscapes
Oddin Sena | March 24, 2019 All Eyes on Us The theory of the spectacle, which warns against how reality will be mediated by a surfeit and surplus of imagery, has never been more true in human history, what with the 24-7 connectivity, the omnipresence of screens (LED monitors, computers, cellphones) in almost all areas… Read more
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Ihip
Jerson Samson | March 24, 2019 Where the Wind Flows Elemental, invisible, and omnipresent, the wind is visualized in this solo exhibition, Ihip, by Jerson Samson as both the literal and symbolic presence that charges his sculptural figures. Their skin trailing like ribbons in the air, they convey the illusion of movement, momentum, and metamorphosis. The wind… Read more
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The Hacienda Must Burn
Carlo Angelo Saavedra | March 24, 2019 Spontaneous Combustions of Space In The Hacienda Must Burn by Carlo Angelo Saavedra, his remarkable expressionistic style which found early anchor in portraiture locates new coordinates in the genre of landscape. For the last couple of years, the artist has been painting his unique interpretations of the natural world, hectic… Read more
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Bangkas
Jurg Casserini | March 24, 2019