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An artist’s path to their creative career usually begins in art school, but Aaron Virata Mempin’s journey started differently. It began in the boardroom.

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He burned, smashed, even soaked his art in a pool. Businessman-turned-"firestarter" artist Marco Santos’ “Man-hole” is raw and raging.

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Lit only in certain areas and suffused with resonant silence interrupted by the occasional hammering, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila was still thick in the preparation of “BenCab: The Filipino Artist,” which opens to the public today when I arrived.

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An artist’s path to their creative career usually begins in art school, but Aaron Virata Mempin’s journey started differently. It began in the boardroom.

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He burned, smashed, even soaked his art in a pool. Businessman-turned-"firestarter" artist Marco Santos’ “Man-hole” is raw and raging.

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Lit only in certain areas and suffused with resonant silence interrupted by the occasional hammering, the Metropolitan Museum of Manila was still thick in the preparation of “BenCab: The Filipino Artist,” which opens to the public today when I arrived.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-04 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135778 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1213342 [AuthorName] => Carlomar Arcangel Daoana [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
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