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THE Silangan Foundation for the
Arts, Culture and Ecology together with the Pinto Art Galery and the
Boston Gallery present a group art exhibition featuring the works of
artists Salvador Alonday, Elmer Borlongan, Emmanuel Garibay, Mark
Justiniani, Antonio Leano and Jose Santos 3rd at the Art Center, SM
Megamall until March 11, 2007.
The exhibition
brings together for the first time the works of these six
contemporary Filipino artists, each having attained renown in their
fields both in the country and abroad. Alonday is former member of
the Hulo group and an erstwhile professor at the Institute of Fine
Arts of the Philippine Women’s University. Borlongan, Garibay,
Justiniani, Leano and Santos were members of the artist collective
Salingpusa in the 1990s.
A sculptor
Alonday’s figurative works in resin and cement reflect his
pervasive interest in mystic subjects as metaphors of the body-soul
and the struggles of life in its various stages of growth and
enlightenment. Borlongan’s large oils on canvas works are
commentaries on the resilience of the Filipino despite misfortune
that besets their lives and bodies. Garibay works with a more robust
brushwork to reveal and expose the complex relations of church,
state and people in an ideological struggle for hearts and minds.
Justiniani’s
poetic paintings tackle themes such as solitude and memory. Leano
presents an installation that extends his current philosophy of
artistic work. Finally Santos shows his recent series of large-scale
canvases. His labyrinthine compositions touch base with everyday
realities expressed in unworldly imagery.
The event also
serves as the launching activity for the recently incorporated
foundation, a nonstock, nonprofit organization involved in the
humanistic study, preservation and promotion of Philippine
contemporary art. Proceeds from the show will be used for the
establishment of the Silangan Philippine Contemporary Art Museum in
Antipolo City.
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