patrolman bose

i went to a fab show in the manila contemporary a few weeks back and saw something i liked and thought you might like even more...

cool yes?

ateneo art awards

i missed you in this year's art awards, so i thought i'd document the exhibit for you :) these were the pieces i really liked (and think that you might have liked too). a warning though: none of my picks won this year - hehehe :)

Renato Barja Jr.

Nona Garcia

Sam Kiyoumarsi

Olivia D'Aboville (works made of plastic spoons and scrubs)

Maria Jeona Zoleta

from two of the winners (both of whom had works that had something to do with bombs....)

Bembol Dela Cruz

Kawayan De Guia

Oh and on the side, I bought myself a Romeo Lee today, which he made especially for me :)

i love it :D

whatchatink? :)

artbike

what a PERFECT way to spend a saturday morning - gallery hopping on bicycles! around 50 artbikers converged at MO's space and made their way to a total of 10 galleries, in a pleasant pace covering 15 kilometers in the BGC, Pasong Tamo, Makati areas:) the galleries welcomed the bikers warmly - we had pandesal, strawberry jam and coffee at the first gallery, bananas and water at another, brownies, cookies, puto, etc at the next ones :) some of the artists were there to meet the bikers, and there was a cool performance at one of the galleries :)

glad i got up early (and biked the extra kilometers all the way from the house and back).

our bike route :)

outside MO's where we all met on a cloudy saturday morning

at Pablo Gallery

inside Manila Contemporary

percussionist Jean Paul Zialcita at NOW gallery, with impromptu zip dancing by one of the bikers (nuk)

at silverlens

Romeo Lee at the Department of Avant-Garde Cliches...

his mural :)

at our last stop, the drawing room

next month will be at the Roxas Blvd galleries and museums! :)

art start

lately, we've been finding extra joy in looking at art for kids.

we caught the last day of the "we are not aimless" show at the manila contemporary art gallery.

it's a group show of illustrators. so cute.

(check out the whole show here.)

it didn't seem that well-supported, but we did manage to get a little sum'n sum'n... to be added to our small collection...

these ones from silverlens...

an original by pepper roxas...

yes, my fave siopao... by pepper too...

this one painted by a nephew when he was around 5... can you believe it???

pieces from the drawing room...

watchatink?

Orosman at Zafira

i met this guy the other day who was involved with this production.

it's a modern take of one of balagtas' stories... of course the only one we know is the then-tedious-but-probably-brilliant florante't laura.

written in the 1850's, the story is ahead of its time with undertones on religious tolerance and the empowerment of women.

here's a teaser:

it's a modern take on a filipino classic... so think style of leo and claire's romeo & juliet.

read more about it here.

let's watch!!!

pam

last sunday, i went to the opening of PAM, or the pinto art museum.

can you imagine pinto now looks like this???

it's a sprawling spread of galleries, open spaces and gardens...

some of the galleries...

the museum shop...

a pocket garden.... looove the leeroy scuplture. can you spot it?

watching the auction at the pinto gallery from above...

a few auction pieces...

thought you might like this one called "babaylan"...

let's go!!! it's totally worth the trip :)