CCP exhibits highlight progressive youth for Rizal’s 150th birthday

YOUNG talents converge at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) today to coincide with the CCP’s celebration of the 150th birth anniversary of Jose Rizal. The CCP has chosen to observe the day by honoring deserving young leaders who epitomize the National Hero’s dedication and idealism. Also, CCP’s exhibit venues will be just as devoted to the musings and assertions of some of the most dynamic young visual artists today.

Prize-winning artist Ronald Jeresano presents his first solo exhibition Manhid at the Pasilyo Guillermo Tolentino (third floor hallway). The exhibit marks an important passage for Jeresano, notwithstanding the recognitions he has received. Manhid collects the artist’s detailed figuration in paintings that counter the grounded certainty of the pose with the fleeting ethereality of the bubble; thus shaping the threshold of what constitutes numbness, or else a suspension of feeling or emotion. One such work pays tribute to Rizal as a figure of fragile hope in a child’s future.