The Ateneo Art Gallery is now accepting nominations to the “Ateneo Art Awards 2011”.
Nominated visual artist must be a Filipino citizen, below 36 years old on May 31, 2011. Artworks submitted for nominations must have appeared in a solo or group show within the 12 months preceding May 2, 2011.
Visual art is defined, for the purpose of the Ateneo Art Awards, as paintings, drawings, original fine prints, photographs, sculptures, assemblages, installations, performances, new media (film, video, computer, other technologies).
All nomination forms must be accompanied by visual documentation. Nominations must be received before 5 p.m. of May 31, 2011 at this address: Ateneo Art Gallery, 2nd level Rizal Library Special Collections Building, Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City 1108.
The hub for the Ateneo Art Awards here in the Visayas region is Casa Gorordo Museum. Nomination forms may be obtained from and submitted through: Casa Gorordo, 35 Lopez Jaena St., Cebu City.
For the initial round of judging, the jury will be basing its decisions solely on the visual documentation submitted by the nominator. High resolution images are encouraged. Submissions must be in the following formats: digital images (.jpg or .tiff); digital videos (.mov or .wmv or DVD copies); links to video documentation online.
Digital files are preferred over hard copies. In the event that the nominator is unable to provide soft copies, 5R photographs will be accepted. Documentation of still artworks in video is limited to a maximum of two minutes. While there is no time limit for time-based/video artworks or of video documentation of performance, nominators are advised to send the video one to two weeks before the deadline to allow jurors enough time to view the work.
Sending originals, however, is discouraged as the Ateneo Art Gallery will not be held responsible for the return or any damage of visual documentation provided.
All images of artworks submitted for consideration should be properly labeled as follows: Name of artist, title of artwork, year completed, medium, dimensions (in cm. or hours/mins/secs for time-based works).
Each nominated exhibition may be represented by up to six images (one to two images per nominated artwork with a maximum of four works for each nomination) plus a maximum of four installation shots if the nominator feels that the installation was crucial to the show. In case of a series nominated as one work, documentation for each piece in the series will be accepted.
All decisions made by the jury with regard to the qualification of the nominated visual artist, the artworks submitted for consideration, the 2011 Ateneo Art Awards Short List, the 2011 Ateneo Art Awards Winners, and the 2011 Ateneo Art Gallery International Studio Residency Grants are final.
Jurors would be Ramon Lerma, director/chief curator, Ateneo Art Gallery; Benedicto Cabrera, national artist for visual arts/director, Bencab Museum; Rene Javellana SJ, associate professor, Fine Arts Program of ADMU; Geraldine Javier, visual artist and 2004 Ateneo Art Awards winner; Raymond Lee, screenwriter, film producer, teacher, and former gallery owner; Sandra Palomar, visual artist; Mary Ann Pernia, education consultant, Lopez Memorial Museum; Erwin Romulo, editor in chief, Esquire Philippines; and Alan Whittaker, associate professor in Ceramics, head of Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Liverpool Hope University.
Established in 2004 to honor the memory of its founding benefactor Fernando Zobel de Ayala (1924-1984), whose support of young Filipino visual artists left an indelible mark in Philippine art history, the Ateneo Art Awards are given to Filipino visual artists below the age of 36 for outstanding works in an exhibition between May 2 of the previous year and May 1 of the current year.
On its eighth year, the Ateneo Art Awards takes the theme “Anatomy of Autonomy,” dissecting and surveying artistic thought in the contemporary Philippine art scene. Unbound by any cultural, social, academic or even aesthetic dogma, the creative spirit of young Filipino visual artists is duly recognized.
From the 12 shortlisted exhibitions/artworks, three are chosen as winners. The winners are then invited to apply for international residency grants funded by the Ateneo Art Gallery and its partner institutions: Common Room Networks Foundation in Bandung, Indonesia; La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre in Bendigo, Australia; Artesan Gallery in Singapore, Art Omi in New York, USA and Liverpool Hope University in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Nomination forms may also be obtained from Ian Carlo Jaucian, exhibitions coordinator of the Ateneo Art Gallery through ijaucian@ateneo.edu. Visit http://gallery.ateneo.edu to know and learn more.
“Balete” by contemporary artist Leeroy New from General Santos City, past winner of the Ateneo Art Awards, will be featured in the next issues of this section as a means of encouraging fellow artists to open their minds to other media of artistic expression.
New recreates the awe and terror that the “balete” (banyan tree) or “dakit” in the Cebuano language inspires, using bright orange flexible conduits for electric cables as probing roots that attach to and choke architectural structures and other trees.
“Balete” is part of the ongoing “Next Wave” (Exhibitions in response to the International Studio residency grants of the 2009 Ateneo Art Awards) at the Casa Gorordo Museum from April 29 to July 10, 2011.