Celebrating A Decade of Artistic Excellence
October 17-21, 2018
SMX Convention Center
SM Aura, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines
Galerie CMG
Catch Jean “Govinda” Marquesto, a Finalist of the International Artist Grand Prize Competition in Tapei, Taiwan with one of his arts “The Grip” (Inspired by Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss).
Galerie 6,21 presents Veiled iconography, a solo exhibition
Galerie Anna proudly presents “AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH” featuring works by eight of the Philippine’s most sought-after figurative visual artists to date –
RICKY AMBAGAN | CEZAR ARRO | ROBERT BESANA | FERDINAND CACNIO | TOTI CERDA | DE JURAS | GERRY JOQUICO, JR. | OTTO NERI
#BoothA5
Galerie Raphael is proud to present renowned Glass Sculptor, Ramon Orlina, as he expresses his visual imagery through glass culets and crystal blocks in “Apex”, debuting at ManilArt 2018. A multi-awarded glass sculptor, Orlina’s reputation extends to art circles and patrons in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, U.S.A. and the Czech Republic.
Kambal Gallery Hong Kong will be exhibiting the amazing works of Jan Calleja, Salvador ‘Buddy” Ching, Demet dela Cruz, Irish Glori Galon, Julius Legaspi, Saverio Lucci, Sue Perks and Eman Sia. #BoothE5
vMeme opens POSTPRINT Group Exhibit for MANILART’s 10th Year
vMeme Contemporary Art Gallery shares another curated show in Manilart 2018. This time gathering contemporary artists and artworks to articulate materiality vis-à-vis content, form and periods, vMeme opens POSTPRINT Exhibit from October 17-21 at booths E7 and E8 at SM Aura Premiere’s Convention Center. Participating are Brave Singh, Jaime Gubaton, Jay Harold Hidalgo, Laura Abejo, Jinsol Lee, Ian Castañeda, Oliver Abe Ramos, Alfred Martirez, Jonathan Rondina and Avie Felix, with sculptures of FM Verano.
Artists incorporate unconventional materials or visually depict objects to present a commentary on the relationship of objects and human life. They also explore the material perimeter of what is contemporary art nowadays, or respond to the challenge of the nature of contemporary art as being paradoxically “limitless”.
Jay Hidalgo’s assemblages profile the working class with both predictable and unpredictable objects. Brave Singh’s paintings surfaces the internal facets of unpacking metaphorical objects, or “baggage”, both in thoughts and visions. Korean artist Jinsol Lee opens up her suitcases of possessions in both literal and cerebral visualizations through vibrant paintings. Jaime Gubaton illustrates parallelisms of the actual home to a romantic home and the home of thoughts and memory. Laura Abejo takes on a reversal of sort in a journey to depict objects abandoned by loved ones who passed away. Alfred Martirez paints montages of objects that represent longings and belongingness, aspirations and accomplishments, losses and gains. Oliver Ramos, true to his social realist practice, takes an ethnographic process to depict contemporary Filipino life through visual documentaries of the bicycle-riding class. Ian Castañeda paints reiterations of crumpled paper in random forms as utterances of objects reflecting our truths. Avie Felix chronicles a woman’s sojourn to freedom through the objects she keeps. Jonathan Rondina assembles an interpolation of hoarding and how it affects the way we live our lives. Verano’s bamboo sculptures, representative of his most valued works, highlights how a medium so intricately and effectively explains a culture, a geography and a nation.
“This exhibit is a collective scrutiny of form and medium, revolving around how these affect people and art. At one level, the collection surfaces how objects around us affect our lives and vice versa. At another, it discusses how objects-of-art become evidence of a period, or a movement, or a phenomenon. Some pieces are to explore how objects or “stuffs” define us or hold us captive. Another trajectory is to showcase objects as allegories of struggles in the contemporary moment. Sometimes philosophical, at times allegorical, yet also unmistakably literal, even masochistic at times, more-so resistant while being obsessive, the exhibit wishes to flip the boundaries of what art is especially in this period of multiple directions and countless resonances.”, shares Avie Felix.
