Pian O Fort E

Objects + Painting + Installations by Alwin Reamillo

22 June – 15 July 2019

Altro Mondo Creative Space
1159 Chino Roces Ave., Brgy. San Antonio, Makati City, Philippines

Pian o Fort e is perhaps Alwin Reamillo’s biggest solo show in many years, this time taking advantage of Altro Mondo’s large space for an almost comprehensive display of his more recent concerns. Reamillo makes use of the gallery’s Monteverdi room for a piano installation surrounded by bricolage “wing” pieces and other objects, perhaps the softer (piano) part of the show, and then the gallery’s ground floor for an assembly of pianos, both functional and deconstructed, that may be deemed as the forte (loud) part of the exhibition. The latter is functional in the sense that it also activates a stage , with two recently modified upright pianos to be played on for a gathering of people or community through music during the show’s opening. – Jojo Soria de Veyra

Alwin Reamillo’s installation and bricolage art has always been about the loudest issues of our land but approached through a display of a myriad of popular and academic (sometimes esoteric, even personal) symbols as reflections of a people’s social and political culture.