Tag: Ruben Defeo

  • Mario VA Parial: Beyond Reality

    Mario VA Parial: Beyond Reality

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    Jamila Hilboy

    Over a hundred works of Mario VA Parial comprise the artist’s retrospective exhibition at the Bulwagan ng Dangal in UP Diliman, Quezon City, from February 17 to March 31, 2015. Organized by the University Theater Complex in celebration of UP Diliman Month and National Arts Month, the retrospective is entitled Mario VA Parial: Beyond Reality.…

  • New Acquisitions

    New Acquisitions

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    Aidrielle Raymundo

    The French philosopher and art critic Denis Diderot states: “Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.” This statement is most true and palpable in this exhibition. All the artists included in this collection have generously given more than a fair share of what they do best: their art. In turn, the University…

  • Archi[types/text]: Architecture in Philippine Life

    Archi[types/text]: Architecture in Philippine Life

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    Aidrielle Raymundo

    This project is about forms and figures. Architecture is grasped as a mode or manner, a blueprint of practice. It is also reckoned as a consciousness, a perspective through which space is sensed and lived out. These two aspects converge in eight exhibitions on landscape and urban planning, painting and photography, cinema and post cards.…

  • Monochromed Memories: UP Landmarks Exhibition

    Monochromed Memories: UP Landmarks Exhibition

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    Aidrielle Raymundo

    The University of the Philippines (UP) turned a century old in 2008. To mark the milestone, the Philippine Republic gifted the University, by way of amendment of the very charter that created the institution in 1908, the status of being the national university in the Philippines for its trailblazing role in advancing the cause of higher…

  • Re-viewing Rodriguez

    Re-viewing Rodriguez

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    Aidrielle Raymundo

    The fine art of print re-emerged as a form of artistic expression in the Philippines in 1962 with the return of artistic avatar Manuel Rodriguez Sr. (b. Cebu City, 1 January 1912) from a Rockefeller Foundation grant in the United States. The grant provided Rodriguez the opportunity to work with South American printmaker and woodcut…