The Philippine Star

A double celebratio­n for Sanso

- PEPPER TEEHANKEE (For inquiries and reservatio­ns, call 952-1568 and 0998-7912057 or e-mail fundcaions­anso@gmail.com.) Certain photos by KLAY TAN

Adouble celebratio­n was held recently at Museo Sanso in San Juan City for renowned artist Juvenal Sanso’s birthday and Fundacion Sanso’s third anniversar­y. Launched at the celebratio­n was an exhibition titled Expansive Vista featuring a selection of Sanso’s early landscapes, including an early ‘80s mural-size work from a private collection. Melody Cosio and Raymark Sanchez opened the program with an Argentine tango number. Fundacion Sanso director Dida Cosio-Salita delivered her welcome remarks, followed by Fundacion Sanso and the Lopez Museum’s Ricky Francisco, who gave his curatorial notes. Fundacion Sanso chairman Jack Teotico introduced some guests who sang the birthday song for the wellloved artist.

I, too, had my photo with Sanso as I fondly showed him our photo together in Paris in 1999. Juvy (as he told me to call him before) smiled and continued eating his favorite chocolate cake.

Before the program ended, Teotico announced that a new three-volume coffee table book on Sanso’s art, career and legacy will be launched on February next year in time for National Arts Month. The book titled La Definitiva

Sanso: A Life Lived Thrice was written and researched by scholar and critic Dr. Reuben Ramas Cañete (this is his last book), and will contain never-before-published photos from Sanso’s life and career.

Order La Definitiva Sanso: A Life Lived Thrice before Jan. 18, 2018 for a special price of P3,200.

?? ?? Juvenal Sanso with (standing, from left) Faico, Mohammad Ronaghi, Dominic Rubio, Jack Teotico and Stefan Co.
Juvenal Sanso with (standing, from left) Faico, Mohammad Ronaghi, Dominic Rubio, Jack Teotico and Stefan Co.
?? ?? (From left) Ayala Museum’s Roland Cruz, Fundacion Sanso and Lopez Museum’s Ricky Francisco, sculptor Jonathan Dangue and multimedia artist Toym Imao.
(From left) Ayala Museum’s Roland Cruz, Fundacion Sanso and Lopez Museum’s Ricky Francisco, sculptor Jonathan Dangue and multimedia artist Toym Imao.
?? ?? (From left) Lawyers Paulina Paruñgao, Kathlyn Baldonado and Anthony Paruñgao, Jack Teotico, lawyers Frances Aquino, Rafael Aquino, Carmi Tugday and Cecille Bautista.
(From left) Lawyers Paulina Paruñgao, Kathlyn Baldonado and Anthony Paruñgao, Jack Teotico, lawyers Frances Aquino, Rafael Aquino, Carmi Tugday and Cecille Bautista.
?? ?? Jack Teotico and Butch Dalisay.
Jack Teotico and Butch Dalisay.
?? ?? Eliot Melody Cosio Raymark Sanchez. and
Eliot Melody Cosio Raymark Sanchez. and
?? ?? Juvenal Sanso and Cynthia Carrion Norton.
Juvenal Sanso and Cynthia Carrion Norton.
?? ?? Glass sculptor Marge Organo and Gallery Stephanie’s Abby FriasTeoti­co.
Glass sculptor Marge Organo and Gallery Stephanie’s Abby FriasTeoti­co.
?? ?? Cherry Maguan. and
Cherry Maguan. and
?? ?? Fundacion Sanso’s Dida Cosio Salita.
Fundacion Sanso’s Dida Cosio Salita.
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