Jan 20, 2014
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Ernest Concepcion.
BEAT OPENS AT LOPEZ MUSEUM
Art aficionados, curators, academics, and media personalities graced the formal opening of Beat, the much anticipated new exhibit of the Lopez Memorial Museum. Well-wishers included Maria Ressa, Pinky Webb, Julius Babao, Tintin Bersola and actress-model Angel Aquino.
Curated by Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez with the artistic direction by Claro Ramirez Jr., Beat explores the wordplay that comes with the summoning of dual meanings. Beat can be interpreted as defeat or surrender, as shown in Danilo Dalena’s Talo, Jerry Elizalde Navarro’s Flying Machine for Icarus, or La Barca de Aqueronte by Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo. It can also indicate rhythm and movement as revealed in Juvenal Sanso’s Carnival, La Fete, Mardi Gras, and Joyride or through Pacita Abad’s Recluse.
Beat also occasions the commissioning of new work from two contemporary artists - Nikki Luna and Ernest Concepcion.
Luna’s installation Precious and Fertile is inspired by her concern for the farmers of Hacienda Luisita and the various issues of the indigenous people in their ancestral lands. For the installation, she hung a number of bone china pipes in different attitudes atop soil poured on the floor. Along with these elements, a portion of a documentary about the Hacienda Luisita is projected over the bone china installation. For the Azucera installation, she took sugar –the main harvest of the farmers in the hacienda –and mixed this into resin to shape these into diamonds to suggest the value of sugar as produce among farmers.
New York-based Concepcion’s Hidalgo, the super multi-dimensional time bandit features the caricatured head of Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo surrounded by artifacts of war and destruction. Concepcion's drawings spill out unto other parts of the museum including the main hallway and unto walls upon which hang objects from the permanent collection of the museum.
The exhibit will run until October 2012. The Lopez Memorial Museum is at the ground floor of Benpres Building, Exchange Road corner Meralco Avenue, Pasig City. Museum days and hours are Mondays to Saturdays, except holidays, 8am-5pm. For more information, call 631-2417.
FUTURE INVASIONS - 530pm - TODAY X FUTURE> beat Edsa TRaffic and come out earlier TODAY! #the early bird gets the worm #Early To bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and WISE!
Outerhope is playing at the NYC Popfest this May. Lots of awesome people in Manila and New York are helping out and making this happen. Like blanc gallery, which is hosting a one-night art show featuring works by Mariano Ching, Yasmin Sison, Ernest Concepcion, Zeus Bascon, Tof Zapanta, Zean Cabangis, Dex Fernandez, Lena Cobangbang, MM Yu, Luis Antonio Santos, and Carina Samantha Santos. That’s a pretty amazing line-up. So much love in Manila.
Previously:
Mariano Ching, Tof Zapanta, and Dex Fernandez alternate covers for the Number Line Records compilation/sampler vol. 1.
Luis Antonio Santos cover for vol. 2.