Manila (CNN Philippines Life) — This week, get your art fix by attending exhibit openings or going to the ones you might have missed out on in the last few weeks.
Opening this week
Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan’s “High Noon at Cagayan Garden” (August 15, Tuesday)
Catch husband and wife duo Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan’s new show at Bellas Artes Outpost (2/F The Alley at Karrivin, 2316 Chino Roces Ave., Makati City) tomorrow, August 15, at 7 p.m. “Cagayan Garden” looks back onto Alfredo’s childhood in Cagayan and marries this personal history with his and Isabel’s “artistic concerns with displacement, change, memory and community.” Following a residency at Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar in Bataan with their children, the Aquilizans have created a garden made from collected materials during their stay. The show is curated by Diana Campbell. For more information, check the Facebook event page.
Eric Zamuco’s “Almost Not” and Frank Callaghan’s “Search/Light” (August 17, Thursday)
Two new solo shows are opening at Silverlens Galleries on August 17, Thursday, at 6 p.m. Catch Eric Zamuco’s “Almost Not” — contemplations “on the thresholds of meaning reached through new associations between objects and their recontextualizations,” this time by way of military field gurney stretchers — and photographer Frank Callaghan’s “Search/Light,” an expansion of his oeuvre of “night shooting.”
Silverlens Galleries is located at 2263 Don Chino Roces Ave. Ext., Makati City. For more information, visit the Silverlens Facebook page.
Dissident Vicinities (August 18, Friday)
A timely and necessary exhibit, “Dissident Vicinities” is a response to “lived and archived moments of political struggle in the country, touching on how cultural work advances across zones of dissent.” Curated by Lisa Ito-Tapang (with the support of The Japan Foundation Asia Center, presented along “Living Spaces,” which is curated by Alice Sarmiento and opened on August 5 at Vetro), “Dissident Vicinities” features work by Bakwit School, Karl Castro, Nathalie Dagmang, Kiri Dalena, Leonilo Doloricon in collaboration with Tom Estrera, Boy Dominguez, Voltaire Guray, Renz Lee, Archie Oclos, Renan Ortiz, Henrielle Pagkaliwangan, Melvin Pollero, Portraits for Peace, Iggy Rodriguez, Pablo Baen Santos, Aldrein Silanga, and UGATLahi Artists Collective, as well as a public program of events.
“Dissident Vicinities” opens on Friday, August 18 at 4 p.m. at Bulwagan ng Dangal University Heritage Museum (G. Apacible cor. Roxas St., UP Diliman, Quezon City). For more information, visit the Facebook event page.
An artist talk called “Decades of Disquiet” will be held on August 22, Tuesday, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the same venue. Speakers include Leonilo Doloricon, Renz Lee, Pablo Baen Santos, UGATLahi Artist Collective, Bonifacio Ilagan, and First Quarter Storm Movement. There will be performances by Sinagbayan. For more information on the artist talk, visit the Facebook event page.
Renz Baluyot’s “By Sword and Fire”: An Artist Walk-through (August 18, Friday)
Following the opening of his solo show, Renz Baluyot will be conducting a walk-through of “By Sword and Fire” at the U.P. Vargas Museum (Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Roxas Ave., UP Diliman, Quezon City) on Friday, August 18. The walk-through begins at 11:30 a.m.
Admission is free. Pre-register before August 18 by sending contact details to vargasmuseum@gmail.com. For more information, check the Facebook event page. The exhibit will run until August 26, 2017.
