Mac Andre Arboleda's second solo exhibit "The Face of a Marcos Apologist" opens on July 21, 2018, Saturday, 6:00 p.m. at Nomina Nuda, Los Baños, Laguna. The project, first released as a black-and-white zine under Asshulz, now presents itself in an exhibition setting with music by 帰宅します, Amado. About The Face of a Marcos Apologist…
Mac Andre Arboleda's first solo exhibit runs until May 17 at Cafe Berde, Los Baños, Laguna. The exhibition, which features 15 photographs, opened last April 26, with a short program with guest reactors Om Velasco and Sarah Koo. In his exhibition, Arboleda shows offbeat images of mundane objects from his bedroom: electric fan, calendars, clothes…
The UPLB INFOCUS Multimedia Guild, a university-based student organization catering to multimedia arts, will be holding IMG Week from April 23 to 26, 2018, at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. With the theme Connections, the four-day event aims to showcase the organization’s talent in the field of digital and traditional arts and to…
Text by Kimmy Baraoidan Photos by Chris Quintana and Kimmy Baraoidan A Tibetan landscape in the tropics. A post-apocalyptic desert wasteland. A dead tree's leafless branches reaching out to the sky, as if in a last desperate attempt to stay alive. The last thing that these would conjure up is a dam. But this is the reality…
Text by: Kimmy Baraoidan Photos by: Chris Quintana and Kimmy Baraoidan “Para sa iyo, kasama kong naliligaw sa ulan (For you, who is lost with me in the rain),” wrote Manuel 'Manix' Abrera on the second page of “14.” The words were printed in long-form cursive text, punctuated with a smiley face. I closed the…
Filipino comics artist Manix Abrera will have his one-man exhibit opening at the UP Vargas Museum in Diliman, Quezon City on August 5, 2015, Wednesday, 4:00 p.m. The exhibit will feature his 'silent comics' where the protagonists are various Philippine mythological characters. His work will be on display until August 19.
Text by Kimmy Baraoidan “Art should be unconventional and [should disturb] people,” said visual artist Mideo Cruz in one of his social media accounts earlier this month. His art—mostly made from found materials, from toys, to knickknacks from thrift stores, to other everyday things—is unorthodox and agitates the minds, stirs the emotions, and grates on…
Text by: Chris Quintana Inside the white room, framed square iron sheets hang, bearing in tangible perpetuity the artist's attempt to make sense of the world—faces and shapes from the shadows inked in black surface from the bare white void. Photographer Veejay Villafranca opened his latest exhibition "IRONIC" on July 15, 2015 at Pineapple Lab,…