Art&Culture
Group show at AAG
LOST FRAMES is coming to the Ateneo Art Gallery on May 18, International Museum Day. The participating artists — Poklong Anading, Vic Balanon, Lena Cobangbang, Rico Entico, Cocoy Lumbao and Kaloy Olavides — will screen and discuss unfinished video works, abandoned projects and ideas that have yet to be made. Lost Frames is a community-based initiative for viewing artists’ moving images. It started with a small group of artists who took interest in showing each other’s works through an evening of presentation and discussion alongside a video projector. Since then, it has become an event that encourages other individuals to share their works and to talk about each other’s methods and ideas with regard to video as a medium of expression. It differs from other screening programs being a non-curatorial outfit, reaching out instead to other artists to share works that have, since their time of production, failed to sustain an audience. Moreover, the 2017 International Museum Day theme, “Museums and contested histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums,” encourages the acknowledgment and expression of multiple viewpoints in museums. The Ateneo Art Gallery is at the Rizal Library Special Collections Bldg., Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Ave., Loyola Heights, Quezon City.
Free admission
ON THURSDAY, May 18, the Yuchengco Museum will offer a day of free admission to all its exhibitions and galleries of the worldwide celebration of International Museum Day (IMD). Every May 18 since 1977, the International Council of Museums has organized IMD to highlight the importance of the role of museums as institutions that serve society and its development. Museums are hubs for promoting peaceful relationships between people, and their collections offer reflections of memories and representations of history. Currently on view at the museum is a retrospective of Burmese jewelry designer Wynn Wynn Ong, Ryan Arbilo’s photographs of overseas Filipino workers in France, and paintings by National Artists for Visual Arts from the museum collection. The museum is located at RCBC Plaza, corner Ayala and Sen. Gil J. Puyat Aves., Makati City.
3 at Vinyl on Vinyl
THREE exhibits will be opening at Vinyl on Vinyl gallery on May 11. These are: Tar Pits by Tokwa Peñaflorida, Frames of Mind by Ren Quinio, and Kalaban by Renz Bautista. The gallery is at 2135 Warehouse II Chino Roces Ave., Makati City.
Exhibit extended
DUE TO popular demand, the exhibit Mapping the Philippine Seas has been extended until May 31. The exhibit features a comprehensive collection of rare historical maps and charts of the Philippine archipelago and its surrounding seas from the early 16th century to the end of the 19th century. Among the significant maps on view are the scroll of the Treaty of Paris Map, a reproduction of The Selden Map courtesy of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the first maps where the name “Filipina” and “Las Philippinas” first appeared. Another important highlight of the exhibit is the Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas, a map produced in 1734 by Padre Pedro Murillo Velarde. Two tracks for the Manila Galleon are shown, and the chart is the first to use the name “Panacot” for the reef now better-known as the Scarborough Shoal. The exhibition is co-organized with the Philippine Map Collectors Society. The museum is at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Complex, Roxas Blvd., Malate, Manila, and is open Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Castrillo at Ayala Museum
CURRENTLY on view at the Ayala Museum is Eduardo Castrillo: A Prism of Art & Friendships, an exhibition on the late Filipino sculptor Eduardo Castrillo (1942 – 2016) with guest curator Jeannie E. Javelosa. The exhibit is the third of series that serves to honor Castrillo’s artistic legacy, as well as the friendships he developed through the years. Lent by the artist’s friends, the objects on display embody facets of the sculptor’s life and were chosen to give a representation of the various styles and forms he created in his lifetime. Javelosa mentioned in her curator’s speech at the opening that Prism is the “bookend” of a series of exhibitions commemorating what would have been Castrillo’s 50th anniversary as an artist. The first was the Yuchengco Museum presentation Eduardo Castrillo @ 50: Moving the Legacy Forward which focused on his public works, followed by The Legacy Begins: Eduardo Castrillo @ 50 at the Provenance Art Gallery, which showcased the artist’s family’s private collection. Eduardo Castrillo: Prism of Art &
Friendships is on view from until June 4 at the Ground Floor Gallery of Ayala Museum, Makati Ave. corner De La Rosa St., Greenbelt Park, Makati City.