Clusters

Virtual Exhibition

Opening
Sunday, July 5, 2020 | 6 PM

Galerie Anna

Galerie Anna proudly brings you “𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒”, a group exhibition featuring topnotch Filipino visual artists 𝘊𝘦𝘻𝘢𝘳 𝘈𝘳𝘳𝘰, 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘛𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘍𝘪𝘵𝘻 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘳𝘢, 𝘚𝘢𝘮 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘴𝘰, 𝘉𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘑𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘳, 𝘔𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘔.𝘋., 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘰, 𝘑𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘱 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘢𝘭, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘢, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘌𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦!

Catch the virtual exhibition of “𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒” on July 5, Sunday, at 6 p.m.

𝘚𝘛𝘈𝘠 𝘛𝘜𝘕𝘌𝘋!

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Clarence Eduarte is an award-winning contemporary visual artist based in Manila, Philippines. Eduarte got his formal training in Fine Arts at The Philippine Women’s University. Over the years, he received several awards including First Prize and Second Prize wins in Metrobank Foundation’s Metrobank Art and Design Excellence Painting Competition. He also attained an Honorable Mention award in the GSIS National Art Competition in 2013. In addition to this, Eduarte is a Hall of Famer in Gallery Genesis’ prestigious Kulay sa Tubig Art Competition.

In 2014, Clarence Eduarte represented the Philippines in Art Expo Malaysia, the longest-running international art fair in Southeast Asia.

Sam Penaso is a visual and performance artist from Guindulman, Bohol. He finished with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the Technological University of the Philippines.

To date, Sam Penaso has held over 28 solo exhibitions locally and internationally — seven of which were held in Japan, Thailand, Austria, Singapore, New York, Abu Dhabi, and most recently, in Berlin, Germany. Penaso is also a recipient of several art grants including Asian Cultural Council’s International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York, and the Thailand-Philippines Art Exchange Program in Bangkok.

He has garnered some major art awards here and abroad since 1996. Among them are First Prize wins in the 2014 and 2016 GSIS Art Competition, Finalist at the 2013 Winter Grand Salon Show in New York, First Prize in the 2012 AAP Annual Art Competition, Finalist in 2006 Beppu Asia Biennale of Contemporary Art in Japan, and Third Prize in 2001 Metrobank Young Painter’s Annual Art Competition to name a few.

As a multi-disciplinary artist, Penaso has also performed in several local and international events. Most notable are his “Stripewalker” series and Tupada International Action Art Events from 2002 up to present.

Marlon Magbanua is an Iloilo-born, Pasig City-based full-time artist. Though his artworks may be visible to the eye, their full essence to him is auditory.

For much of his career, he had been obsessed with the visual aspects of sound. Once a certain sound/music inspires him, the sound becomes amplified in his mind and ultimately finds its form in swaths of color. Magbanua hears the sound and feels the emotions from it. He later visualizes these emotions into art. Every emotion has a corresponding color, texture, and lines — bright or murky, rough or refined, thin or heavy. Although the concept he obsesses with follows a cerebral thread, his process of art making is pretty much instinctive.

Inspired by the notion that everything can be traced to a single source, which binds all living beings, Magbanua conceptualizes existence as a circular shape that perpetually moves and brings people together.

Josep Pascual is an artist who greatly revels in his repetitive process of art making. To him, he is able to fulfill his intentions on the canvas by doing it over and over again using intuitive and lyrical lines and shapes. His style may have evolved from a series of trial and error but he remains faithful to abstractions. For Josep Pascual, abstraction serves as his platform for freely expressing his personality and emotions.

Josep Pascual is a graduate of the Fine Arts degree program in the University of the East Caloocan. Pascual’s greatest influencers are John Hoyland, Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, Cy Thombly, Jackson Pollock, Jose Joya, and Bernardo Pacquing.

Christian Tamondong was born in Cavite City, Philippines. He took up painting at the Institute of Fine Arts and Design at the Philippine Women’s University. A first encounter with Tamondong’s works evokes a sense of enchantment for his intense colors at once beckon us to a world of playgrounds, the world of our childhood. Tamondong’s unique style appropriates the colors and forms of children’s art. His paintings are characterized by strong, vibrant colors applied in their purest intensity. Intimations of innocent spontaneity appear through freely applied streaks of crayons and oil sticks and through casually controlled acrylic drippings and washes. Tamondong’s child-like style serves a double entendre: while the forms appear naive, his themes are thoughtful meditations on the exhuberance of life. Christian, one of the rising stars of Philippine art is a multi-awarded painter and his artworks are sought after in the Philippines, Singapore and the United States.

“My works are stirred only by pleasant feelings — like a cosmic force so powerfully sublime, one can’t help but bow down to its might. To understand my work is to understand my present predisposition — tranquil yet vibrant, buoyant, and open — where things seem to flow naturally and seamlessly like a good music we all plea wouldn’t stop. I reveal these stirred emotions with my skillful exercise of art, and inventively reveal them in colors and motions, while exploiting all the improvisational and tentative ways of abstraction. With much delight, I express pleasurable urgency to go back each time to my canvas to relay the spontaneous overflow of excitement and my unrestrained inner spark. For me, all the positive vibes and accommodatingly unimpeded personal and creative space afforded me the fulfillment as an artist to pare things down in my visual language which I know best how to use and communicate with.”

“I was born and raised in Caloocan City. I had discovered my love for the arts at an early age which eventually made me pursue a degree in Fine Arts – major in Advertising. In the stretch of my life, I followed my interest in music, photography and computer graphics. The years I spent doing graphic designs abroad is a testament to the love I have for the arts.

My journey as a visual artist was not a straight line; it was more of a broken line, actually. As a matter of fact, I never made a conscious decision to switch my path into becoming an artist. It was an accident – or perhaps – a twist of fate. After a long vacation from work, I have rekindled my love for visual arts. I believe that it is a calling more than anything.

I have always felt that there is nothing more satisfying than doing something out of deep and abiding love, whether it is in visual arts, music, or other discipline — and in my case, it is the visual arts.”

Michael Pastorizo is a Filipino painter currently residing in Malabon, Metro Manila. He studied at Malabon Community College where he obtained his associate degree in Business Management. He has participated in numerous group shows both locally and internationally. According to the artist, he paints, first and foremost, because he loves art and considers it his primary passion.

Pastorizo conveys works about courage, products of his imagination, and the fruits of his persistence and discovery. “I started painting abstract themes, and with continued hard work, I have discovered my own style which some viewers call ‘dreamlike’.” the artist concludes. Michael Pastorizo strives to capture the primitive beauty within familiar forms, to interpret their underlying architecture and their place in time, and construct a bridge between those simple icons and complex ideas.

Inspired by the balance that is ingrained within the chaos of nature, the artist creates illustrative forms which are at once constant and dynamic, organic and industrial, ornate yet tranquil.

“Meneline Wong has a medical degree in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the University of Santo Tomas, and holds clinic at the Chinese General Hospital. She first dabbled into the arts in late 2017 by painting on paper. Soon after, she came across fluid art and tried her luck at the 2018 GSIS National Art Competition, where she won second place in the nonrepresentational category, becoming the first female artist to win a major award at the competition. She also joined the 2018 Robinsons Land National Art Competition and won the top prize in the same division.” Excerpt from JT Nisay’s Business Mirror article “The women in and of art at Altro Mondo”

Cezar Arro is an expressionism and modern realistic visual artist based in Iloilo. His paintings of facial expressions are non-deliberate and unexpected. It is in the spur of the moment that he generates his art without any basis from bound documentation and is part of his own imagination and concept. Most, if not all, of his works are based on experiences, his own existence — from the time of his early works as a struggling artist up to the moment of him experimenting unexpected and uncalled-for concepts.
Cezar Arro is one of the most dedicated visual artists of our time. He has been in the scene for over 21 years and has regularly been featured in local, national, and international publications like Sun Star, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Contemporary Art Magazine of the Philippines, Elite Magazine and Asian Arts News. He is a four-time finalist of the prestigious Philippine Art Awards. Aside from his regular exhibitions in the Philippines, Cezar Arro has also participated in international exhibitions including Art Apart in Singapore 2017 and Affordable Art Fair in Hong Kong from 2015 – 2019.