ART MADE PUBLIC 2018 AT SM AURA PREMIER

The launching of the 2018 Metrobank Art & Design Excellence (MADE) showcases effort to weave together an advocacy for the visual arts and cultural heritage through three interrelated components — Connections Made, Meet the Met in MADE, and Masjid, dahlings.

A joint partnership between the Metrobank Foundation, Inc. (MBFI) and SM, it features a series of art exhibits, lectures and workshops on art and cultural heritage, dahlings.

This year’s works exhib- ited at the Art MADE Public highlights Connections Made, showing how past winners relate to each other — mentorapprentice, young artists inspired by established and senior ones, artists related by blood, andcontemporarieswithinartist groups of different eras.

“The exhibit aims to present the diversity and richness of influences between and among past MADE winners. It is also about tackling their themes, messaging, and styles that have changed and emerged among contemporaries over time,” said MBFI president Aniceto Sobrepeña.

Meet the Met at MADE, on the other hand, highlights the ongoing restoration program for the Manila Metropolitan Theater through an exhibit of the different decorative art elements and colorful costumes worn by actors during their theater performances.

Completed in 1931, the Manila Metropolitan Theatre, where our country’s mega namedroppable members of society and the conglomerate world were present — also known as the Met — has witnessed several cycles of destruction and revival throughout its 85 years of existence. The edifice was declared a National Historical Landmark in 1973 and a National Cultural Treasure in 2010 because of its status as the only existing Art Deco building of its scale and integrity in Asia.

As a traveling exhibition, Art MADE Public will give us all a chance to visit the Mindanao region where it will display images of over 30 mosques, showcasing the anatomy of Islamic architecture and their aesthetic principles in Masjid.

Art Made Public, one of the exciting cultural events in SM, will then go to SM City Manila on March 13-21.

Yes, palanggas: leave it to SM to always brings us “the best of the best”!!

SM SVP for marketing Millie Dizon with Metrobank Foundation’s assistant executive director Irene Labitad and SM Aura Premier mall manager Margie de Leon (right) during the Art Made Public 2018 Exhibit launch at SM Aura Premier

SM SVP for marketing Millie Dizon (left) with Metrobank Foundation’s Lalaine Calicdan (center) and Jesthela Lizardo (right) admire the costumes from the Metropolitan Theater performance, including the magnificent orange outfit with a train from The...

Painter Jett Stanley Osian and his 2017 grand prize artwork “Tell Lie Vision”

Artist Emmanuel Garibay beside his masterpiece “Dasal Para sa Huling Taya.”

Metrobank’s Region 1 head Rey Liao.

Architect Philip Recto and wife Ester

Artists Thomas Daquioag, Herbert Pajarito and Ferdinand Doctolero came in full force to support the MADE Exhibit.

NHCP chairman Rene Escalante