Gallery News
Roberto Chabet at West Gallery
MANILA, Philippines - Pioneering conceptual artist Roberto Chabet mounts “Alarm & Chaos,” which opens tomorrow, 6 p.m., at West Gallery, 48 West Ave., Quezon City. The show is on view until April 27.
In Chabet’s exhibition, the three rooms of the gallery are turned into apprehensive scenes using familiar objects — harmonicas and clipboards, embedded or attached to nondescript, monochrome paintings and neon texts that reference philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, poet Rainier Maria Rilke, and artist Alexander Rodchenko.
For information, call 411-0336 and 411-9221.
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Jovan Benito at Galerie Joaquin Podium
“Triduum (Humanizing Kristo),” a Lenten exhibit by Jovan Benito, opens on April 2 at Galerie Joaquin Podium, lower ground floor, The Podium, ADB Ave., Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong City. The show is on view until April 17.
The show features Benito’s reinterpretation of familiar religious imagery by some of the world’s most famous artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Roger van der Weyden.
For information, call 634-7954 and 723-9418, or visit www.galeriejoaquin.com.
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Melvin Culaba at Blanc Compound
Melvin Culaba presents his latest paintings in “Connections,” on view until April 3 at the Blanc Compound, 359 Shaw Blvd., Mandaluyong City. For information, call 752-0032, SMS 0920-9276436, e-mail info@blanc.ph, or visit www.blanc.ph and www.blancartspace.com.multiply.com.
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Justin Nuyda and Daniel de la Cruz at Galerie Hans Brumann
Justin Nuyda and Daniel de la Cruz mount “Nerves and Pulses,” which opens on April 2, 6 p.m., at Galerie Hans Brumann, third floor, Greenbelt 5, Legaspi St., Makati City.
The show features exuberant and incandescent images of cloud columns and ovoid-bodied goddesses entwined into musical instruments.
For information, call 728-2175, or visit ghb.hiraya.com.
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Manuel Baldemor at Ortigas Foundation
Manuel Baldemor holds his 150th solo exhibit titled “Travel Diary,” which opens tomorrow at the Ortigas Foundation Library’s Artists Nook, ninth floor, Ortigas Ave., Pasig City. The show is on view until April 22.
The exhibit features more than 60 paintings of some of the more than 50 countries he has traveled to throughout his storied career. Also on display are the actual travel sketchbooks where Baldemor draws studies for later rendering into full-size paintings.
A portion of the proceeds will go to the foundation’s programs for needy children.
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Bernardo Pacquing at Mag:net Ayala
Bernardo Pacquing “prepares for war” in “Untitled (mattresses)” on view until today at Mag:net Gallery Ayala Avenue, ground floor, The Columns Tower 1, Ayala Ave. corner Buendia, Makati City.
A crucial part of Pacquing’s creative process was the phrase “going to the mattresses (to prepare for war),” which has been famously used in The Godfather (the titles of the pieces reference the film. The war, the show suggests, is that which the self wages on itself.
For inquiries, call 929-3191, e-mail info@magnetgalleries.com or visit www.magnetgalleries.com.
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‘Walong Filipina’ at Liongoren Gallery and Sining Kamalig
In commemoration of National Women’s Month, Liongoren Gallery presents “Walong Filipina 2009” on view until April 4 at Liongoren Gallery, 111 New York St., Cubao, Quezon City, and is slated from April 5 to 6, at the Sining Kamalig, Gateway Mall, Cubao, Quezon City.
Participating artists are Plet Bolipata, Camille de la Rosa, Raquel de Loyola, Wawi Navarroza, Mervy Pueblo, Anna Varona, Lydia Velasco, and Liv Vinluan.
For information, call 912-4319 or e-mail nliongoren@yahoo.com.
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‘Prologue: The Garden of Society’ at Lunduyan Art Gallery
Dexter Fernandez, Eman Servito, Arthur Sanchez, Mark Villanueva, and Joey Resterio unmask the different faces dancing beneath the fissured glass existence of human society in “Prologue: The Garden of Society” on view until April 16 at Lunduyan Art Gallery, 88-B Kamuning Rd., Quezon City.
For details, call or SMS 0915-7896417.
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Allan Balisi at Hiraya Gallery
Allan Balisi turns the gallery that houses his canvases — from flowers to fathers, from household fixtures to the house itself — into a “Black Hole” on view until April 22 at Hiraya Gallery, 530 United Nations Ave., Ermita, Manila.
For inquiries, call 523-3331, e-mail Hiraya@info.com.ph, or visit www.hiraya.com.
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‘E.Y.A. (Emerging Young Artists)’ at Galerie Raphael
Amador Barquilla, Aljo Pingol, Jovan Benito, Armenium Aralar, Tresreyes, and Aldrino mount “E.Y.A. (Emerging Young Artists)” on view until April 13 at Galerie Raphael, Unit 2C-06, second floor, The Piazza, Serendra Mall, Fort Bonifacio Global City.
For more information, call 856-3034, or visit www.galeriejoaquin.com.
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‘Art Traction’ at Ricco Renzo Gallery
Gerardo Ingco, Renato Villanueva, Rico Lascano, and Cid Reyes create a common ground for the understanding of what terms Philippine art is “restated in the Modernist idiom of today” in “Art Traction” on view until April 13 at Ricco Renzo Gallery Restaurant, ground floor, LRI Plaza, 210 N. Garcia St., Bel Air II, Makati City.
For inquiries, call 898-2543 or visit www.riccorenzo.com.
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Art Bermido at Sigwada Gallery
Art Bermido depicts the country’s ugly socio-political troubles in “Czar Azar” on view until April 15 at Sigwada Gallery, 1921 Oroquieta St., Sta. Cruz, Manila.
The title depicts azar, a colloquial word for disgust. Czar, of course, alludes to President Arroyo’s designation of herself as the country’s illegal drug “czar.”
For inquiries, call 743-5873 or SMS 0917-8075659.
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Alex Aguilar at Mag:net Ayala
In Alex Aguilar’s latest show titled “Reflections of a Discarded Screw,” which opens on April 1 at Mag:net Gallery Ayala Avenue, the seeming disparate but not wholly unrelated elements are combined resulting in euphemistic pokes at metaphors that usually bespeak of the time-tested sentiments on mortality, faith and human existence.
The show is on view until May 4.
