Saturday, May 16
Anita Magsaysay-Ho Gallery
Casa San Miguel, Zambales
Friends! Opening of exhibit at May 16, 2015, 3pm, followed by Summer Camp Recital at 4pm.
PASILYO CAFE also opens for lunch and dinner. P100 gate entrance includes entrance to exhibit, recital and refreshments at the cafe.
RURAL: Zaniel Mariano
Ongoing art exhibit at Casa San Miguel celebrates the parochial and simple charms of rural life
“Growing up in the countryside, life is much simpler. Back then, human activities are very limited: limited access in entertainment and latest technology such as television, radio and comics. Due to such limitations, people were more focused on their farming activities as their primary resources for survival. These life experiences in the community are the beacon of these paintings: homage to the past and present.”
– Zaniel Mariano, 2014
Mariano’s body of works is a glimpse of a place and time we once knew. We are now living at a time where everything is moving so fast; where things rapidly take its form from one shift to the other – almost unnoticed because of Globalization and the rapid growth of Technology.
Mariano’s body of works focuses on the act of remembering life experiences with the intent to portray his idea of “slowing things down”…of self-evaluation…of unlearning and relearning the meaning of “progress” through pictures of what seemed to be a simpler life – a life in the countryside, Zambales.
His paintings aim to guide us to form the right questions that we eventually ask ourselves, about how we live our lives and make us reflect our own values and the things that truly make us feel alive.
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Zaniel Mariano holds “Rural” which is an on-going exhibit until July 16, 2015 at The Anita Magsaysay-Ho Gallery and Museum in CASA San Miguel.
Mariano who hails from San Antonio, Zambales is a self -taught artist and began his career in painting at the age of 16. He was one of the Top 10 Finalists in the Petron ART Competition and a Semi-finalist in the Metrobank Painting Competition.
Zaniel has since served as an art mentor to local children in San Miguel and San Antonio, teaching drawing every weekend, preparing young artists for entry into the Phil. High School for the Arts.
