Manila Art

July 16, 2009

6 pm, NBC Tent, Bonifacio Global City

Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines

“MY CORE PRINCIPLE IN CREATING ART IS TO CATAPULT THE MESSAGE, TO LIBERATE THE MEDIUM, AND TO TRANSCEND THE SELF.”  

Creating art is akin to a journey, adventure, or expedition, in which I embark on a personal exploration of the uncharted territories in my life. When I create, my senses are heightened, sensitive and highly reactive to any stimuli. Obstacles, be it physical, mental, or spiritual, present itself in the process, and to overcome such, it gives me a sense of accomplishment, an understanding of life and my self, and personal fulfillment. In this regard, art serves as my vehicle to transcend oneself...Alexander de Moscoso

Past Exhibits

To view the videos of some of our past exhibits, click on the above link.

Camille's Chalice of Evolution, Revolution: From impressionism to surrealism

Her complete departure from landscapes and gardens, those who are considered the natural, the beautiful is quite impressive.

Ms. Camille Jean Verdelaire D. De la Rosa is now trying to swim into the ocean of the surreal, the morbid, the mechanical, the unknown and her cruising can be said, quite smoothly; as if the 26-year old artist had already mastered how to pilot her boat without the compass, only looking at the constellations and the moon and the planets, as her guide.

She said, she just put parts of the human body, the beasts on the ground and underwater, birds flying on the air, and other elements of the “not-so-beautiful” on the immaculate white canvass, and the philosophical pieces of artworks are born.

Eugene Cubillo

Yue Minjun

  The Grassland Series

Yue Minjun is not only unquestionably one of the most recognized and influential Chinese contemporary artists but considered among the leading artists in the international scene today. Born in 1962 in the Northeast of China, Yue Minjun moved to Beijing in 1989 after graduating from the painting department of Hebei Normal University. His iconic self portraits with their almost painfully exaggerated grins have become the consummate symbol of the “cynical realist” style that grew out of the mounting political pressures and social contradictions in the post–Tienanmen period of the early to mid-1990s. 

Yue Minjun, produced a series of eight new and striking images, titled the “Grassland Series” – four images have been created as screen prints with Pace Print’s master printers at Wantanabe Studios and four as multiple-block wood cut prints produced at Yue Minjun’s studio in Beijing. Each is singular in their detail and rendered in highly contrasting shades of grey with very subtle casts of muted color - a notable departure from the artist’s usual palette.

Each print has been produced in an edition of eighty signed and numbered by Yue Minjun. These editions are available individually or in limited sets. 

Kulay-Diwa  is a venue for Philippines and Southeast Asian Contemporary Art. Inaugurated on February 7, 1987, Kulay-Diwa, is strategically located within a cluster of communities South of Manila.  It has five independent exhibition areas able to accommodate large-scale works and a garden ideal for programs, performances and sculpture installations.  The goals of the gallery are to discover and promote the works of young, talented but deserving Filipino Artists and to foster cultural interaction and exchanges with the local regions and other countries.

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Diwa  (Spirit, Thought)

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