Soul | Body | Mind

Art Fair Philippines
6 – 15 May 2021

Galerie Roberto
Unit 4, Molito Lifestyle Extension Bldg., Madrigal Ave. corner Commerce Ave., Alabang, Muntinlupa City

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Art Elaan
2nd Floor, Filipino Village, Ayala Malls Manila Bay, Diosdado Macapagal Blvd, cor Aseana Ave, Parañaque, Philippines

Galerie Roberto and Art Elaan proudly presents, three-group exhibition for the Art Fair Philippines 2021 entitled “𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙡/𝘽𝙤𝙙𝙮/𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙”” curated by Riel Hilario.

“𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙡/𝘽𝙤𝙙𝙮/𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙” is an artistic survey of tripartite structure of an individual, identified since the dawn of time by religion and philosophy as the basic elements of human existence. This three part exhibition, designed and curated by Riel Hilario for Art Fair Philippines 2021, celebrates the complexity and mystery of humanity through the works of selected contemporary Filipino artists.

Soul navigates the creative and mythic movements of the Artist, his or her sense of animation (Latin for soul is Anima) and direction. The show explores narratives of myths, expressions of the divine within and the explosions of feeling and passion which drives the people to change, grow and blossom.

Works by:

Arturo Sanchez
Froilan Calayag
Jep Dizon
Jerson Samson
Pat Frades
Renato Balute
Rene Cuvos
Riel Hilario

Body investigates the Artists sense of corpus, of being a creature of the senses: visuals, auditory signals, touch and taste within a physical world but unfettered by its constraints. This show foregrounds what Jean-Paul Sartre calls the “lived through experience” of the sentient body, as the vessel and instrument of the mind and soul.

Works by:

Bullet Dematera
Ferdinand Cacnio
Maria Francesca
Andrianne Juarez
Orley Ypon
Ricky Ambagan
Robert Besana
Romeo Ballada
Salvador Banares

Mind explores the abstract, the conceptual, the possible. Non-objective configurations of the visceral world, distilled further into fundamental elements of design, forms of aesthetic function and phenomenal presence of architectonic bodies. Art is presented as an equation of colors, shapes and design – as statements of fact and seemingness. The perceptual prowess of projection.

Works by:

Andre Baldovino
Benjie Cabangis
Binong Javier
Dennis Morante
Fitz Herrera
Jan Sunday
Jay Ragma
Kat Grow
Niccolo Jose
Sal Ponce Enrile
Sam Penaso

About the curator

Riel Hilario is a Cultural Center of the Philippines 13 Artist Awardee. With over 25 years of curatorial experience with programming galleries such as Boston Gallery and Pinto Art Gallery Hilario is also an accomplished sculptor, painter, cultural historian and art educator. He studied curatorial work under Bobi Valenzuela of Hiraya Gallery and Sonia P Ner of Ayala Museum in the 1990s. He was also part of the Asian Museum Directors Forum in Beijing in 2006 and was one of the curators of the Multifaceted Curator workshop in Bandung and Jakarta in 2005. He studied global art market through the Node Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin in 2019. He has written numerous articles on Philippine art published both here and abroad and has curated shows in Brunei, Singapore, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and Seoul. He is the editor/author of Without Walls (2000) and the Pinto Art Museum book (2018). He lives and works in Lucban, Quezon and Antipolo City, Rizal.

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