The Island is Calling
Oneness is made up of many different things. It is pure and simple. Yet the simplicity of its wholeness refracts in society’s prism of separatedness; diminishing it into specificities, shrunken into types, classes and other such boundaries, equated only by words like ‘all’ or ‘everything,’ neither which ever
sufficing to capture the majesty of its meaning.
Reflecting de Brucyekere
Video documentation of the process of creating Charlie Co’s artwork, “Reflecting de Brucyekere”
A Farmer’s Scream
A collaboration by sculptor Rafael Paderna and artist Charlie Co is the second of the BAO series created by Paderna for the Angelica Berrie Foundation. It is Paderna’s contribution to the various public art installations at the Art District in time for the 30th year celebration of the VIVA Excon this 8th of November 2020…
Personal Unconscious
Personal Unconscious, a solo exhibit by Faye Abantao, ponders on the indivisible wholeness of beings. As synthesized by psychoanalyst Carl Jung, the personal unconscious is “everything of which I know, but of which I am not at the moment thinking.” Abantao explores the binding power of context over the mind; not the thinking/feeling process itself, but the awareness behind them…
UNREFINING SUGARLANDIA EXHIBITION
Over 20 contemporary Negrense artists—including noted senior artists Nunelucio Alvarado, Rafael Paderna, Charlie Co, and Dennis Ascalon—join creative forces on September 1 (Saturday) in “UNREFINING SUGARLANDIA,” the first contemporary art exhibit to be held at the recently renovated second floor of the “new” Negros Museum.