ArtHeals Fundraising
ArtHeals Fundraising is a community of artists with the aim to send help within fellow artists and with other sectors on the island a few weeks before the Pandemic Lockdown 2020.
Corazon del Artes
Megumi Miura, has always had a fascination with Christianity as an artistic concept especially Folk Catholicism; mainly in iconography and symbolism. Having been surrounded by relatives with different Christian beliefs has given her an eclectic view of the religion. She was always told to “just pray” and as an agnostic, the concept of prayer has often eluded her.
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.
Connecting the Islands: Featured Works from The Visayas Art Fair 2021
Written by Amanda Juico Dela CruzArticle published on Art+ Magazine To connect may mean to converse. In these conversations, similarities and differences surface. The similarities are rooted in collective unconscious, shared experience, and communal beliefs. On the other hand, the differences are due to limitations. These differences are conveyed, and must be discussed and evaluated […]
Faye Abantao on Putting Things Together
Faye Abantao is a Bacolod based visual artist known for hybrid works done in deconstructed archival prints, origami and digital collage. Her multifold process is an interplaying mixture of contents, patterns and images. The overlapping layers give Abantao’s distinct kafkaesque flamboyance which depict fragments of reality in mirage-like scenes or incomplete memories. To tear and fold; On preparing the origami […]
Nunelucio Alvarado film premieres in Viva Excon tribute to masters
Written by INDAY ESPINA-VARONAArticle published on Rappler BACOLOD, PHILIPPINES As a result of the artist’s outreach, communities around Alvarado’s base have walls, posts, and even roofs ablaze in a riot of colors. A feature-length documentary on famed Negrense painter Nunelucio Alvarado will have its world premiere on Saturday, September 11, at the Safe House theater […]