Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art is a privately owned venue for artistic expression. It is strategically located within a cluster of progressive communities South of Manila. It has an independent exhibition area able to accommodate large-scale works, and a spacious garden ideal for outdoor programs, performances and sculpture installations.
Goals of Kulay-Diwa:
To discover and promote the works of talented, young and deserving Filipino Artist;
To serve as a cultural outpost and make the arts more accessible to the fast-growing communities South of Manila; and
To foster cultural interaction and exchanges with the local regions,Southeast Asia and other countries.
Kulay (Color)
Diwa (Spirit, Thought)
Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art
25 Lopez Avenue, Lopez Village,Sucat
Paranaque City, Metro Manila 1700
Philippines
ph: Landline: (632)8260574
fax: Contact Person: Bobbit
alt: Wireless Landline: (632)4252647
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Ama+zonia
English
While men disagree concerning the measures required in order to preserve the environment, nature proceeds with its silent battle to remain alive. Evading responsibility, incapable of restraining a rhythm of development that is unfit for the preservation of the planet, politicians and authorities passively watch as time goes by.
The fast growing awareness of ever increasing numbers of citizens, all over the world, has not been sufficient to avoid climatic accidents that highlight the disastrous effects of mans actions on the environment. To insist on the subject continues to be the best way to encourage actions that will confront the problem.
This is the purpose of Fabians work. Contradicting the traditional vision of the forest, she proposes another perspective. Close, visceral and subjective. In transit between the exuberance of the flora, the fruits and the arid landscapes Fabian constructs her message without beating around the bush - with the freedom of the artist - and to this end adds to the images of the Amazon a few of the Atlantic Rain Forest.
Portughese
Enquanto os homens divergem sobre as medidas de preservao do meio ambiente, a Natureza segue sua luta silenciosa para manter-se viva. Fugindo responsabilidade, incapazes de reter um ritmo de desenvolvimento inadequado preservao do planeta, polticos e autoridades vo deixando o tempo passar. A conscientizao crescente de parcelas cada vez maiores de cidados, no mundo todo, no tem sido suficiente para evitar acidentes climticos que evidenciam a ao desastrosa do homem sobre o meio. Insistir na reflexo sobre o tema continua sendo o melhor caminho para incentivar aes que enfrentem o problema. O trabalho de Fabian tem esse propsito. Contrariando a concepo tradicional acerca da floresta, ela prope outro olhar. Prximo, visceral e subjetivo. Transitando entre a exuberncia de flores, frutos e as paisagens ridas, Fabian constri seu discurso sem rodeios, defendendo uma aproximao afetiva como forma de conter a destruio iminente. Para isso com a liberdade prpria dos artistas acrescenta s imagens da Amaznia algumas poucas da Mata Atlntica.
Italiano
Mentre gli uomini discutono sulle misure di preservazione dellambiente che ci circonda, la natura continua la sua silenziosa lotta per mantenersi viva. Fuggendo dalla responsabilit, incapaci di frenare un ritmo di sviluppo inadatto alla preservazione del pianeta, politici ed autorit lasciano passare il tempo.
La coscienza crescente di parti sempre pi numerose di cittadini, in tutto il mondo, non stata sufficiente ad evitare incidenti climatici che mettono in evidenza lazione disastrosa delluomo sullambiente. Insistere nella riflessione sul tema continua ad essere la migliore strada per incentivare azioni capaci di affrontare il problema.
Il lavoro di Fabian ha questa finalit. Andando contro la concezione tradizionale sulla foresta, lartista propone un altro punto di vista intimo, viscerale e soggettivo. Passando tra la esuberanza di fiori, frutti e paesaggi aridi, Fabian costruisce il suo discorso senza raggiri, difendendo una approssimazione affettiva come forma per impedire la distruzione imminente. Per questo, con la libert propria degli artisti, la fotografa affianca alle immagini della Amazzonia, anche alcune poche immagini della Foresta Atlantica.
Silent Music
The photographing of dance off of the stage is the underlying idea of the images created by Fabian and this decision made it necessary to approach the subject not so much as a show form, but rather as a way to perceive corporeity.
The professional dancer, like the athlete, must have a much deeper awareness of his own body than that of other individuals . This affirmation may seem a bit absurd, in that the essential condition of a human being consists in having a body with which to move, suffer, love and think. Yet, considering the question from a slightly different point of view we realize that, by simply living in our bodies, our daily perceptions of the same tend to be
more passive than active, and that we become directly aware of the bodys presence in only a few moments of our day and that, also in those moments we are not prepared to fully use the potential that it contains. The dancer, on the other hand, who expresses himself solely with the body and without his voice, must be able to pull forth from his body the maximum amount of its expressive capacity, he must be able to dominate its expressions to the point where it is an automatic process, just as breathing is automatic.
Thus, as for the subjects of her photographs, a dance movement is light and natural as breathing, Fabian has understood how to reveal the same in her images.
Beginning with a casual knowledge of dance, Fabian soon undertook a course of research into it, which led to her meeting diverse people and establishing an almost symbiotic relationship with them. The knowledge that the dancers possess of their bodies and the ability to move harmoniously has been perfectly captured and transferred to images that convey the visual form into the equivalent of musical rhythm.
Of a certainty the professionalism obtained through fashion photography, where the clothed body becomes the protagonist, supplied the necessary foundation to Fabian to comprehend the worth of corporeality. But these images could never have come into existence without the direct complicity of the dancers. The fundamental difference between this series of photographs and traditional images, taken at a theater during a performance, comes from the fact that this time the rapport of the photographer and the artist is immediate and the difference of their roles no longer separates the one from the other. Neither does the insurmountable barrier of the stage interpose itself between them. Each of them make use of the medium of space and the dancer does not interpret an audible theme, as in the theater, but follows an internal music known only to himself. In this situation there is no choice for the photographer but to renounce the documentation of dancing forms, and to render the body of the subject as the absolute vision, attempting to attune the secret rhythm to his movements, and to translate them into images which are each very different, just as artistic personalities, corporeal forms and performance locations are different.
Only by taking into account this condition is it possible to understand howbodies in motion, sometimes flickering like the flame of a candle blown by the wind, alternate with solid and immobile figures which are as powerful as classical sculptures. They are not and do not desire to be simple photographs of the carnal form, amounting to nude aestheticism, rather they are images of suspended animation. They are visual representations of the pause between one beat and the next in that silently shared musical which is alert to the tension that belongs together with the movement just concluded and that which is about to begin
The alternation of color and black and white images is another of the linguistic instruments used by Fabian in her work. And because color is conventionally perceived to be more adherent to realistic representation and black and white with the symbolic, she has in some cases destroyed these perceptive values by using the techniques of blurring or hazing, which slightly diminish the realistic quality of the image .
The aim of Fabians photographs is, indeed, to give visual form to an abstract concept, to the silently communicated harmony of a body in rhythmic motion.
Corpi all' infinito
English
Shows a will of abstraction tending to turn away the excessive realism, typical of the images that re-produce the everyday world, and it manifests the intention to conduct the observer in a different reality, closer to a dream and a fairy world.
Portughese
Corpi allinfinito mostra uma vontade de abstrao que tende a distanciar o excesso de realismo tpico das imagens detinadas a reproduzirem o mundo cotidiano e manifesta a inteno de conduzir o observador a uma realidade diferente, mais prxima do sonho e do mundo dos contos de fada.
Italian
Corpi allinfinito indica una volont di astrazione tesa ad allontanare leccesso di realismo proprio delle immagini destinate a riprodurre il mondo quotidiano e manifesta lintento di condurre losservatore entro una realt diversa, pi prossima al sogno e al mondo fiabesco.
Moto sospeso
English
The active elements of the process indicate the radiant expansion that vaporises the colour order into the purest light vibration. The reading communicates a trans-chromatism and, in the (e) for the scene, transforms the energy force that generates the fluctuating rhythm of abstract thought. Intra-spatial alterations can be made out in the atmosphere of a chromed support; a score sheet which generates and self-generates new means of expression for the orchestration and composition, gathering together the syntheis within the criteria of research which brings together the symbolic elements behind the event and the filmic sequence which in turn defines video-art.
As outlined before, photography is both a cornerstone and integral part of Fabians artistic project: it indicates a strategy that verifies the language of the physical body, stretching the expressive boundaries until they are transfigured. The moment of action itself takes on the obsessive evocation of perfection for the potential of the male body. The artist sculpts them- virtually speaking-, interacting with an artificial means which perceives a pre-established figure of space and time when, for example, eye of the camera is dragged like a brush. This technique is mostly favoured by American artists who are the masters of exploiting live filming with a video camera namely Mac Adams and Dual Michals.
Fabian thus returns to a phenomenological recognition which displays links with painting skills, owing to the decorative style harnessed on more than one occasion, and for the association, outlined in the procedure, convinced that it really is possible to create art with photography by disassociating it from mere aseptic documents. This does not occur owing to the natural evolution of the medium, but in the aesthetic language which takes on an identity and portrayal dignity of its own. This conception has promoted a climate that has put them on a level, combining the traditional perfectionism with the identity of the subject in itself.
The scenic presence sets apart the work and research of Fabian, who portrays exalted dream-like choreographies where, in the cuts of the zoomed-in image and the reorganisation of the photograph, the classical movements of the dancing body underscore the expressiveness of a Greco-Roman sculpture or an anatomical code reminiscent of Da Vinci, from which one gleans the tension of the muscles and swollen arteries. Nature and artifice overlap performing energy with creativity, outlining the idea of an artist who wants to keep photography firmly within the realm of contemporary art.
In the Nineties, many artists set up a dialogue between those that see photography as a simple visual event executed for the figural or environmental palimpsest, and those that interpret it as a framed model executed with criteria that dilate the vision of the composition into a number of elements: internal and external, human and architectural, without ever casting the imaginative, fantastical or dream-like surrealism evident in Fabians works to one side. One of the most important defining features is the maximum effect of the clarity, which guarantees the image flawless formal characteristics both on video and on paper. In this sense, it puts forward a choice that favours the technique of the photographic medium which, in this role, seems to compete with and even surpass painting rather than cast it aside as those that professed to support anti-painting would have done in the Fifties; it tends instead to demonstrate widespread sensitivity in recognition of todays need to speed up the production of images for fashion and advertising, irredeemably viewed in todays media-dominated global society. This domination tends to surpass the dogmatism of the history of art, and is swallowed up by the hyper-media visuals which, artistically speaking, the computer produces in graphic animations and design.
Portughese
Os elementos ativos do processo indicam a expanso radiante que vaporiza a ordem da cor na mais pura vibrao da luz. A leitura comunica o trans-cromatismo na cena; transforma a fora da energia que provoca o ritmo flutuante do pensamento abstrato. Alteraes intra-espaciais podem ser feitas na atmosfera de um suporte cromtico; um gabarito que gera e auto-gera novas formas de expresso para a orquestrao e composio; unindo a sntese dentro do critrio de pesquisa que complementa os elementos simblicos por trs do evento e da seqncia filmica que define o vdeo - arte.
Como denotado antes; a fotografia e ao mesmo tempo base fundamental e parte integral do projeto artstico de Fabian : Indica uma estratgia que verifica a linguagem do corpo fsico alongando os limites expressivos at serem transfigurados. O momento de ao adota a evocao obsessiva da perfeio para o potencial do corpo masculino. A artista os esculpefalando virtualmente-, interagindo com uma mdia artificial que v uma figura preestabelecida do espao e do tempo quando, por exemplo, o olho da cmera arrastado como uma escova ; esta tcnica usualmente preferida pelos artistas americanos que so os mestres na explorao da filmagem ao vivo com cmeras de vdeo nominalmente Mac Adams e Dual Michals.
Consequentemente Fabian retorna ao reconhecimento fenmeno-lgico que apresenta conexes com conhecimentos da pintura, devido ao estilo decorativo em prtica em mais de um momento e pela associao, exposta no procedimento, convencendo que realmente possvel criar arte com fotografia ;distanciando-se assim de meros documentos asspticos. Isto no devido a evoluo natural da mdia , mas sim pela linguagem esttica que toma uma identidade e dignidade representativa prpria. Esta concepo promove um clima que as coloca num plano, combinado o perfeccionismo tradicional com a identidade do sujeito.
A presena cnica separa o trabalho e a pesquisa de Fabian , que retrata coreografias parecidas com sonhos exaltados onde nos cortes da imagem aproximada e na reorganizao da fotografia. Os movimentos clssicos da dana corprea enfatizam a expresso da escultura greco-romana ou um cdigo anatmico remanescente do Da Vinci do qual podemos extrair a tenso dos msculos e o inchao das artrias. O natural e o artificial convergem mostrando vigor com criatividade; demonstrando a idia de uma artista que quer envolver a fotografia efetivamente dentro do campo da arte contempornea.
Nos anos noventa muitos artistas criaram um dialogo entre aqueles que vem a fotografia como um simples evento visual executado como um manuscrito figurativo ou ambiental; e aqueles que a interpretam como um modelo emoldurado executado com um critrio que dilata a viso da composio num nmero de elementos: interno e externo, humano e arquitetural sem nunca afastar o surrealismo imaginativo, fantstico e sonhador; evidente no trabalho de Fabian. Uma das mais importantes apresentaes o mximo efeito de claridade garantindo a perfeio da imagem caracterstica formal tanto em vdeo como em papel neste sentido coloca na frente uma escolha que favorece a tcnica da mdia fotogrfica que no seu papel parece competir e ainda ultrapassar o dogmatismo da historia da arte, engolida pelos visuais hiper mdia que artisticamente falando, o computador produz em animao grfica e design.
Italian
Gli elementi attivi del processo segnalano lespansione radiante che vaporizza la testura cromatica in pura vibrazione luminosa. La lettura comunica lipotesi che lartista estenda il suo occhio per raggiungere lideale bellezza proponendo un transcromatismo e svelare, nella (e) per la scena la forza energetica che genera il ritmo fluttuante del pensiero astratto. Alterazioni intraspaziali si ravvisano nellatmosfera di un cromolucido supporto; una partitura che genera e autogenera nuove possibililit espressive per la concertazione/composizione e raccoglie la sintesi, nei criteri di una ricerca che mette insieme gli elementi simbolici esplicitanti dellevento, e, la sequenza filmica propria della video-arte.
La fotografia, come abbiamo rilevato innanzi parte costitutiva e integrante del progetto artistico di Fabian: indicata una strategia che verifica il linguaggio del corpo fisico che forza i limiti espressivi fino alla trasfigurazione. Il momento dellazione assume in s levocazione ossessiva della perfezione per le potenzialit delle anatomie maschili. Lartista le scolpisce virtualmente - interagendo con una via artificiale che percepisce un prestabilito dato spazio-temporale quando, ad esempio, utilizza locchio della camera che trascina come un pennello: (privilegiata da artisti per lo pi gli americani, molto abili nello sfruttare in presa diretta la video camera - Mac Adams e Dual Michals).
Fabian, torna cos ad avviare una ricognizione fenomenologica che manifesta intrecci con la manualit pittorica, per quel gusto del decorativismo raccolto in modo non occasionale e per quella associazione, individuata nel procedimento, convinta che si possa veramente fare arte con la fotografia dissociandola dal mero documento Asettico. Ci, non si verifica per la naturale evoluzione del mezzo ma nel linguaggio estetico che assume una propria identit e dignit di rappresentanza. Questa concezione ha favorito un clima di assoluta parificazione che coniuga, il perfezionismo tradizionale e lidentit del soggetto in s.
La presenza scenica contraddistingue il lavoro e la ricerca di Fabian che ritrae sublimate oniriche coreografie che, nei tagli dellimmagine zoomata e nella ri-disposizione fotografica, il corpo, nei movimenti classici della danza evidenzia lespressivit di una scultura greco-romana o di un codice (anatomico) leonardesco, da cui si legge la tensione delle fasce muscolari e le arterie che rigonfiano. La natura e lartificio accavallano in sovrapposizione energia performativa e creativit: specificata lidea di unautrice che vuole tenere la fotografia dentro larte contemporanea.
Molti autori, negli anni Novanta hanno instaurato il dialogo fra coloro che intendono la fotografia come semplice evento visivo, condotto per il palinsesto figurale o ambientale, e coloro i quali intendono, un modello quadro eseguito con i criteri che dilatano la visione compositiva in pi elementi: interni ed esterni, umani ed architettonici, senza mai tralasciare il valore immaginale e fantastico e tantomeno, come del resto vediamo nei lavori di Fabian, lonirica surrealt. Fra i tratti caratterizzanti, il massimo effetto della nitidezza che garantisce allimmagine ineccepibili qualit formali sia del video che della stampa su carta; in questa direzione lavanzamento di una scelta che privilegia luso della tecnica
Text by: Dino Del Vecchio 2006
Eye
English
In these beautiful new images by Fabian, young, sinuous bodies full of graceful energy dance and release themselves against a crisp, clear, luminous sky, captured in a second eye. The eye of the photo lens and the ocolus of the aerial architecture of the bridge of Santiago Calatrava that stretches across the Motorway Autostrada del Sole to Reggio Emilia. This round opening was inspired by small Renaissance temples, giving us a glimpse of the lithe and weightless male and female dancers held in an embrace as tight as the chords of the bridge stays that stretch to the clouds, suspending the bridge between the earth and heavens. It is an enormous, pure-white harp resting in the air. In these images, sculpted by light and backlight, the cameras eye and the architectural eye are each a metaphor of the other; they play off each other with reflections and references in which, with incomparable formal elegance, Fabian captures moments of the bodys poetry and nature bound to the theme of dance. In this cycle of photographs, in addition to the bridge of Calatrava, the historic squares and streets of Reggio Emilia, the countryside and poplars of the area around the city that serve as a backdrop or more precisely, a stage for graceful movements and steps, captured in their deftness by the eye of an artist who has chosen her own land as a site for new visions.
Portughese
Nestas lindas novas imagens da Fabian, corpos jovens, sinuosos, flexveis e cheios de uma graciosa energia danam e se lanam ao encontro de um ntido e ondulado cu luminoso, capturados por um segundo olho. O olho da objetiva da mquina fotogrfica e o ocolus da arquitetura da ponte de Santiago Calatrava que se estende pela Autoestrada do Sol s portas da Reggio Emilia: uma abertura circular, inspirada naquelas dos tempos renascentistas, dentro das quais vemos danarinos e danarinas leves, sem qualquer peso, juntos em um abrao tensionado, to tesos quanto as cordas da ponte que se esticam at as nuvens suspendendo a ponte entre a terra e o cu. Uma imensa e branqussima harpa faz um adgio no cu. Nessas imagens esculpidas pela luz e pela contra-luz , o olho da cmera fotogrfica e o olho arquitetnico so ambos uma metfora um do outro: so um jogo de espelhos e de retornos nos quais Fabian enquadra, em incomparvel elegncia formal, momentos de poesia do corpo e da natureza ligados ao leit-motiv da dana. No somente a ponte, mas as praas histricas e ruas da Reggio Emilia, bem como os pastos e as choupanas dos Reggianos servem nesta seo de fotos como cenrio, ou melhor, como palco de passos e gestos harmoniosos, colhidos em sua felicidade pelo olho de um artista que escolheu a prpria terra como ponto de locao para novas vises.
Italian
In queste inedite bellissime immagini di Fabian corpi giovani, flessuosi, pieni di graziosa energia danzano e si librano contro un cielo nitido, terso, luminoso, racchiusi in un doppio "occhio". L'occhio dell'obiettivo fotografico e l'oculo dell'aerea architettura del ponte di Santiago Calatrava che scavalca l'Autostrada del Sole alle porte di Reggio Emilia: un'apertura tonda, ispirata a quelle dei tempietti rinascimentali, entro cui vediamo esibirsi danzatori e danzatrici lievi, senza peso, stretti in un abbraccio teso come tese sono le corde degli stralli che ascendono alle nuvole sospendendo il ponte fra terra e cielo. Un'immensa, bianchissima arpa adagiata nell'aria. In queste immagini scolpite dalla luce e dal controluce, l'occhio della fotocamera e l'occhio architettonico sono l'uno metafora dell'altro; sono un gioco di specchi e di rimandi entro i quali Fabian ferma, con impareggiabile eleganza formale, momenti di poesia del corpo e della natura legati al leit-motiv della danza. Non solo il ponte di Calatrava, ma anche le storiche piazze e le strade di Reggio Emilia, le campagne e i pioppeti del Reggiano fanno, in questo ciclo fotografico, da scenario o meglio da palcoscenico di passi e di gesti armoniosi, colti nella loro felicit dall'occhio di un'artista che ha scelto la propria terra come location di nuove visioni.
Text by: Domenico Montalto 2007
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Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art is a privately owned venue for artistic expression. It is strategically located within a cluster of progressive communities South of Manila. It has an independent exhibition area able to accommodate large-scale works, and a spacious garden ideal for outdoor programs, performances and sculpture installations.
Goals of Kulay-Diwa
To discover and promote the works of talented, young and deserving Filipino Artist;
To serve as a cultural outpost and make the arts more accessible to the fast-growing communities South of Manila; and
To foster cultural interaction and exchanges with the local regions, Southeast Asia, and other countries.
Kulay (Color)
Diwa (Spirit, Thought)
Copyright 2011 Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art. All rights reserved.
Managing Director: Roberto San Agustin Nolasco
Contact person: Bobbit
Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art
25 Lopez Avenue, Lopez Village,Sucat
Paranaque City, Metro Manila 1700
Philippines
ph: Landline: (632)8260574
fax: Contact Person: Bobbit
alt: Wireless Landline: (632)4252647
bobbit
