Ateneo Art Awards 2017 shortlist announced

Now in its 14th year, the Ateneo Art Awards continues to recognize the talent of emerging visual artists and art critics in the Philippines.

The 12 artists shortlisted for the Fernando Zobel Prizes for Visual Arts are: Catalina Africa – “Studies on the Movement of Water” (Finale Art File);

Charles Buenconsejo – “Name, Kind, Application, Date Last Opened, Date Added, Date Modified, Date Created, Size, Tags” (Artinformal); Gino Bueza - “Systems of Control (West Gallery); Zean

Cabangis – “Echoes” (Discoveries at Art Basel Hong Kong 2017); Cian Dayrit – “Expositon” (Group exhibition at Lopez Museum and Library); Gale

Encarnacion – “Blow Me” (UP Diliman College of Fine Arts, Thesis Show); Kitty Kaburo – “Lifejacket Under your Seat” (Group exhibition at Langgeng Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesa); Doktor Karayom – “Linya” (Cultural Center of the Philippines); Czar Kristoff – “Configurations” (West Gallery); Leonardo

Onia Jr. – “Microscopic Hysteria” (West Gallery); Nicole Tee – “Quiet Punctuations” (UP Diliman College of Fine Arts, Thesis Show); and Costantino

Zicarelli – “Prelude to a Billion Years” (Artinformal).

The six writers shortlisted for the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism are: Christian Benitez – “History is Form: On Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘The Serenity of Madness’” (held at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design); Carlo Pacolor Garcia – “Beaded Gestures” (on Karl Castro’s “Social Fabric” at Vargas Museum);

Arianna Mercado – “Dalena’s Curtain Call” (On “Last Full Show” at the Cultural Center of the Philippines); John

Kenneth Paranada – “Tie A String but Cut it Right in the Middle” (held at Vargas Museum); Chanon Kenji

Praepipatmongkol – “Equivocal Beliefs: Natee Utarit Ayala Museum” (On “Optimism is Ridiculous - The Altarpieces” at Ayala Museum); and Josephine V. Roque – “Transits of Meaning” (On “Almost There” at Vargas Museum)

The works of all the shortlisted artists and writers will be exhibited at Mid-Level 2/3, Shangri-La Plaza East Wing from until Sept. 4, and at the Ateneo Art Gallery from Oct. 1 to Dec. 2. The awarding ceremony will be held in the Ateneo de Manila University on Oct. 1.

The PhilippineS TAR is a media partner of the Ate neo Art Awards 2017.

Gino Bueza - “Systems of Control (West Gallery) Gale Encarnacion – “Blow Me” (UP Diliman College of Fine Arts, Thesis Show)

Charles Buenconsejo – “Name, Kind, Application, Date Last Opened, Date Added, Date Modified, Date

Kitty Kaburo – “Lifejacket Under your Seat” (Group exhibition at Langgeng Doktor Karayom – “Linya” Art Foundation, Yogyakarta, Indonesa) (Cultural Center of the Philippines)

Leonardo Onia Jr. – “Microscopic Hysteria” (West Gallery)

Catalina Africa – “Studies on the Movement of Water” (Finale Art File)

Czar Kristo – “Configurations” (West Gallery)

Nicole Tee – “Quiet Punctuations” (UP Diliman College of Fine Arts, Thesis Show)

Zean Cabangis – “Echoes” (Discoveries at Art Basel Hong Kong 2017)

Cian Dayrit – “Expositon” (Group exhibition at Lopez Museum and Library)

Costantino Zicarelli – “Prelude to a Billion Years” (Artinformal).