Alfredo A. Liongoren Retrospective Exhibition
September 19 to 30, 2023
Parola: UP Fine Arts Gallery | Bartlett Hall
Jacinto St., Diliman, Quezon City
In retrospect, artist Alfredo Aritcheta Liongoren imagined his past works and exhibitions to be layers of his self that he had to peel through. Through this gesture of making, he opens himself up and unveils his interiority. Each of these layers affords a unique glimpse to his personhood, without any one of them capable of explicating all that he is.
Attempting at such, this retrospective exhibition, which also serves as a homecoming, brings together artworks from six decades of the Liongoren’s practice: starting from his student years at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts in the early 1960s, to the succeeding decades—which have been typified by shifts between varying degrees of abstraction and figuration, and later, explorations with the overtly socio-critical and the performative.(Mark Louie Lugue)
About the artist
Alfredo Aritcheta Liongoren (b. 1944) is a painter and performance artist. Liongoren was admitted to the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (UP CFA), where he received scholarships from the Jose Joya Sr. Memorial Foundation and Purita Kalaw-Ledesma among others. In 1966, he was featured on The Asia Magazine and was recognized as an “Asian to Watch.” During his student years, he won recognitions from various institutions and competitions, such the Art Association of the Philippines annual exhibitions and the Shell National Students Art Competition. He was selected by the Cultural Center of the Philippines to be part of the Thirteen Artists in 1972. In 1981, he and wife Norma opened the Liongoren Gallery, whose doors were specifically open to works of social protest.
About the exhibit
Together with the Liongoren family, Tin-aw Art Projects presents Layers and Layers of the Self Peeled Through: Alfredo A. Liongoren Retrospective Exhibition at Parola: UP College of Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibit opens on 19 September and will be on view until 30 September in the UP Diliman campus in Quezon City, Philippines. To visit, please see the UP Fine Arts Gallery hours. For inquiries, please reach out to @tinawartph
