CCP and Visual Pond present for End Frame Video Art Project 3: A READING OF BRIGHTNESS, DARK CLOUDS SURROUNDING, an exhibition by Yason Banal

Cultural Center of the Philippines and Visual Pond

present for END FRAME VIDEO ART PROJECT 3

A READING OF BRIGHTNESS,

DARK CLOUDS SURROUNDING

an exhibition by Yason Banal

Opening on 15 February 2013, Friday, 6-9 PM.

Artist and Curator talk on 15 March 2013, Friday, 5-7 PM. Exhibition runs until 12 April 2013. 

CCP Main Theater Building, Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo (Small Gallery), Pasilyo Victorio Edades (4F Hallway Gallery) and 4F Atrium

A Reading of Brightness, Dark Clouds Surrounding, an exhibition by Yason Banal, forms the final part of End Frame Video Art Project 3, the 2011-2013 video art festival featuring solo exhibitions of Philippine artists presenting new video work. Presented by the Cultural Center of the Philippines and Visual Pond, the exhibition opens at the Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo (Small Gallery), Pasilyo Victorio Edades (4F Hallway Gallery) and 4F Atrium, Main Theater Building, CCP, on 15 February 2013, Friday, at 6 PM. An artist and curator talk will be held on 15 March 2013, Friday, from 5-7 PM at the MKP Hall on the same floor.

A Reading of Brightness, Dark Clouds Surrounding in part takes inspiration from the former Senate Hall at the National Museum, the Thirteen Artists Awards at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and the Claudio Bravo exhibition and Fundraising Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. The exhibit reflexively ties this in with the recent boom in Philippine contemporary art and how such a growing interest is somehow linked to institutions, patronage and cultural heritage, as much as lifestyle, identity, and notions of value, power and taste.

The work of Yason Banal moves between installation, photography, video, performance, text, curating and pedagogy, taking myriad forms and conceptual strategies in order to explore, perhaps even trigger, suppressed associations and links. He has been exhibited locally and internationally, including the Tate, Frieze Art Fair, IFA Berlin, The Courtauld, Sotheby’s, Guangzhou Triennale, Singapore Biennale and most recently at The Queens Museum of Art, Shanghai Biennale and www.artworld.biz.

The banner project of Visual Pond, End Frame 3 is curated by Clarissa Chikiamco. The theme of the third edition, Present, refers to the project’s focus on the current video art practices of selected Philippine contemporary artists. Other artists who have presented for End Frame 3 are Tad Ermitaño, Manny Montelibano, Claro Ramirez, Kiri Dalena, Kaloy Olavides and Maria Taniguchi.


A Reading of Brightness, Dark Clouds Surrounding has patronage from House Speaker Hon. Feliciano Belmonte Jr., Congressman Sonny Angara, Honorary Consul Amelia Ablaza and Canon Philippines with special thanks to Geiser-Maclang and Josiah’s Catering. The exhibition runs until 12 April 2013 with gallery viewing hours from Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm. For more information, visit www.culturalcenter.gov.ph or call the CCP Visual Arts and Museum Division at (632) 832-1125 loc 1504/1505 or 832-3702. 


Acknowledgments:The 13 Most Artists, Buen Calubayan, Antonni Cuesta, Marvin Javier, Rica Estrada, Victoria Herrera, Amor Maclang, Sara Alvarez, Josiah's, Mikai Rodrigo, Ice Idanan, Joy Aquino, Meera Krishnan, Yael Buencamino-Borromeo, Inigo Elizalde, Jose Campos III, Jeremy Guiab, Kevin Garlitos, Joaquin Valdes, Crossfit Insurrecto, Sandra Palomar-Quan, Dindin Araneta, Erwin Romulo, Clara Balaguer, Reggie Yuson, Jun Jarme, Noeny Gatarin, Judy Roxas and the artist's and curator's families

Last few days: Maria Taniguchi's "Untitled (Celestial Motors)"

Last few days! Catch the ongoing exhibition until 14 April, Saturday.

END FRAME VIDEO ART PROJECT 3

UNTITLED (CELESTIAL MOTORS)

a solo exhibition of Maria Taniguchi

 

It's the last few days to catch Maria Taniguchi's solo exhibition, Untitled (Celestial Motors), ongoing at Silverlens 20Square. Regular exhibition hours resume tomorrow and the exhibit runs until this 14 April 2012, Saturday.  The exhibition is presented by End Frame Video Art Project 3: Present, the 2011-2012 Philippine video art festival, together with Silverlens 20Square.

Untitled (Celestial Motors) features Taniguchi’s video of the Philippine jeepney, using one from the Celestial Motors factory in San Pablo. Focusing on an unadorned unpainted jeepney of stainless steel shot against a white backdrop, the video bares the jeepney as an object of study. Through simple, crisp and startling takes showing the jeepney stripped into its basic form, the video distances from any specific context and instead acts as framework in accommodating the full weight of this iconic vehicle.

Taniguchi’s Untitled (Celestial Motors) is the sixth offering of End Frame Video Art Project 3, a project of the non-profit organization Visual Pond. Throughout the Philippine video art festival, artists stage a solo show presenting new video work in various venues from 2011 to 2012. Curated by Clarissa Chikiamco, the theme of the third edition, Present, refers to the project’s focus on the current video art practices of selected Philippine contemporary artists. Taniguchi’s exhibition follows the End Frame 3 shows of Tad Ermitaño, Manny Montelibano, Chitz Ramirez, Kiri Dalena and Kaloy Olavides. End Frame 3 caps with an exhibition by Yason Banal later this year.

Untitled (Celestial Motors) is made possible through the support of the LUX Associate Artists Program/Leverhulme Fund, London, UK. The show will be viewable on weekdays from 10 am to 7 pm, and Saturday, 1 to 6 pm. Silverlens 20Square is located on 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Yupangco Building 2, Makati City 1231. Call (632) 816.0044 or visit http://slab.silverlensphoto.com. For inquiries on Visual Pond projects and End Frame 3, visit http://www.visualpond.org or email visualpond@gmail.com.

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In other news, we'd like to endorse the international conference LOCUS REDUX: Speaking Across Contexts, Learnings and Negotiations in Writing and Teaching on Art, which will happen from 19-21 May 2012 at Yuchengco Museum in Makati. It is organized by Pananaw ng Sining Bayan, Inc, in partnership with Japan Foundation Manila Office, the Lopez Memorial Museum, the Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation, the Yuchengco Museum, Vargas Museum and Pinto Museum. Conference fee is Php 2,000.00 and registration has been extended until tomorrow. For more information, you may read about it here or contact Fanny San Pedro/Mary Ann Pernia of the Lopez Museum at (632) 631.2417 or via email through lmmpasig@gmail.com.

 

End Frame Video Art Project 3 with Silverlens 20Square presents UNTITLED (CELESTIAL MOTORS), a solo exhibition of Maria Taniguchi

END FRAME VIDEO ART PROJECT 3, the Philippine Video Art Festival,

together with Silverlens 20Square, presents

UNTITLED (CELESTIAL MOTORS)

a solo exhibition of Maria Taniguchi

Opening on Thurs, 15 March 2012, 6 pm.

Exhibition runs until 14 April 2012. Conversations with the artist TBA.

End Frame Video Art Project 3: Present, the 2011-2012 Philippine video art festival, together with Silverlens 20Square, presents Maria Taniguchi’s solo exhibition, Untitled (Celestial Motors). The show opens at Silverlens 20Square on 15 March 2012, Thursday, at 6 pm and runs until 14 April. 

Untitled (Celestial Motors) features Taniguchi’s video of the Philippine jeepney, using one from the Celestial Motors factory in San Pablo. Focusing on an unadorned unpainted jeepney of stainless steel shot against a white backdrop, the video bares the jeepney as an object of study. Through simple, crisp and startling takes showing the jeepney stripped into its basic form, the video distances from any specific context and instead acts as framework in accommodating the full weight of this iconic vehicle.

Maria Taniguchi studied sculpture at the University of the Philippines and graduated with an MFA in Art Practice from Goldsmiths, London. She took part in the LUX Associate Artists Program and recently won the 2011 Ateneo Art Awards. Her practice considers information, juxtaposition and relationships of her subjects of study.  She lives and works between London and Manila and will soon do a residency at Artspace Auckland in New Zealand.

Taniguchi’s Untitled (Celestial Motors) is also the sixth offering of End Frame Video Art Project 3, a project of the non-profit organization Visual Pond. Throughout the Philippine video art festival, artists stage a solo show presenting new video work in various venues from 2011 to 2012. Curated by Clarissa Chikiamco, the theme of the third edition, Present, refers to the project’s focus on the current video art practices of selected Philippine contemporary artists. Taniguchi’s exhibition follows the End Frame 3 shows of Tad Ermitaño, Manny Montelibano, Chitz Ramirez, Kiri Dalena and Kaloy Olavides. End Frame 3 caps with an exhibition by Yason Banal later this year.

          Untitled (Celestial Motors) is made possible through the support of the LUX Associate Artists Program/Leverhulme Fund, London, UK. The show will be viewable throughout its run between Monday to Friday, 10 am to 7 pm, and Saturday, 1 to 6 pm. Silverlens 20Square is located on 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati. Call (632) 816.0044 or visit http://slab.silverlens.org. For inquiries on Visual Pond projects and End Frame 3, visit http://www.visualpond.org or email visualpond@gmail.com.

THE IMAGE OF SOUND artist talk 3 March 2012, Sat, 2 pm

END FRAME VIDEO ART PROJECT 3

THE IMAGE OF SOUND

a solo exhibition of Kaloy Olavides 

ongoing at West Gallery till 5 March

Artist talk, Saturday, 3 March 2012, 2 pm

Please join us on 3 March 2012, Saturday, at 2 pm for the artist talk of THE IMAGE OF SOUND, the solo exhibition of Kaloy Olavides, ongoing at West Gallery. Olavides will be discussing his current exhibition and selected past works with the audience andEnd Frame 3 curator Clarissa Chikiamco. THE IMAGE OF SOUND is a project under End Frame Video Art Project 3: Present, a series of solo exhibitions of artists presenting new video work from 2011 to 2012. The theme of the third edition, ‘Present’, refers to the current project’s focus on the video art practices of selected Philippine contemporary artists.

West Gallery, located at 48 West Avenue, Quezon City, Metro Manila, is open Monday to Saturday from 9 am to 6 pm. The exhibition screening hours run from 1 to 6 pm and upon request. The show runs until 5 March 2012. Contact West Gallery at (632) 411.0336. For inquiries on Visual Pond projects and End Frame 3, call Rica Estrada at +63917.8170198 or email visualpond@gmail.com with 'End Frame 3' as the subject line. 

End Frame Video Art Project 3 with West Gallery presents THE IMAGE OF SOUND, a solo exhibition of Kaloy Olavides

Visual Pond's End Frame Video Art Project 3, the Philippine Video Art Festival, with West Gallery presents
THE IMAGE OF SOUND
a solo exhibition of Kaloy Olavides
Opening on 16 February 2012, 6 pm.
Artist talk on 3 March 2012, 2 pm. Exhibition runs until 5 March 2012.

Visual Pond’s End Frame Video Art Project 3: Present, the 2011-2012 Philippine video art festival, together with West Gallery, presents The Image of Sound, the solo exhibition of Kaloy Olavides. The show opens at Gallery 2 of West Gallery on 16 February 2012, Thursday, at 6 pm and runs until 5 March. An artist talk will be held at 2 pm on 3 March, Saturday.

The Image of Sound focuses on the significance of sound to video, which, as a moving image, has been more dominantly associated with visuals and the act of looking, seeing and watching. Yet, examining another sensory quality, Olavides’ exhibition centers on the medium’s aural experience, done through documentation of simple performative techniques. While forcing the audience to concentrate on sound, the show seemingly negates the importance of images. Yet, in its austerity, The Image of Sound points to the vitality and potency of both these elements in the recognition of how one informs the other.

A year 2000 fine arts graduate from the University of the Philippines, Kaloy Olavides practices with painting, collage, performance and sound and video installation. His works’ themes are inclined to absurdity, irony, anxiety, deception and redirection. His artistic practice is informed by his work in production and sound design for films, music videos, commercials and audiovisual presentations. Olavides is also currently a member of the experimental sound collective Elemento.

Olavides’s The Image of Sound is also the fifth offering of End Frame Video Art Project 3, a project of the non-profit organization Visual Pond. Throughout the Philippine video art festival, artists stage a solo show presenting new video work in various venues from 2011 to 2012. Curated by Clarissa Chikiamco, the theme of the third edition, Present, refers to the current project’s focus on the video art practices of selected Philippine contemporary artists. Last year’s End Frame 3 shows included presentations by Tad Ermitaño, Manny Montelibano, Chitz Ramirez and Kiri Dalena. End Frame 3 continues into 2012 with exhibitions by Olavides, Maria Taniguchi and Yason Banal.

             The show will be viewable throughout its run between Monday-Saturday, 1 pm to 6 pm, and also upon request. West Gallery is located on 48 West Avenue, Quezon City, telephone number (632) 411-0336 with website at http://www.westgallery.org. For inquiries on Visual Pond projects and End Frame 3, visit http://www.visualpond.org or call Rica Estrada at +63917-8170198 or email visualpond@gmail.com.

Kiri Dalena and Clarissa Chikiamco on Illuminati television show

From left to right: Kiri Dalena, Clarissa Chikiamco, Trix Syjuco and Krip Yuson

Thanks to Trix Syjuco and Krip Yuson for having artist Kiri Dalena and curator Clarissa Chikiamco on their television show, Illuminati, last December 6 at 7:10 pm, on channel GNN. They talked about their exhibition Time and Place of Incident. Catch it today and until tomorrow, December 10, Saturday, at University of the Philippines' Vargas Museum, from 9 am to 5 pm.

TIME AND PLACE OF INCIDENT artist talk on 1 Dec, Thurs, 230-430 pm

END FRAME VIDEO ART PROJECT 3

TIME AND PLACE OF INCIDENT

solo exhibition of Kiri Dalena

ongoing at the basement of Vargas Museum until 10 December 2011

Artist talk 1 December 2011, Thursday, 2.30-4.30 pm

 

 

Please join us on 1 December 2011, Thursday, 2.30-4.30 pm, for the artist talk of TIME AND PLACE OF INCIDENT, the solo exhibition of Kiri Dalena at the Basement of Vargas Museum. The talk will include a presentation by Dalena in discussion with the curator, Clarissa Chikiamco, and Rowena Paraan, Secretary-General of the show's co-presentor, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines. 

TIME AND PLACE OF INCIDENT concentrates on the killings of media journalists in the Philippines, with the country being considered as one of the world’s most dangerous places for journalists. Dalena’s show involves documentation footage taken by her and volunteers at the grave sites of these journalists as well as shots showing selected places of their assassination.The exhibition runs until 10 December 2011 at Vargas Museum, Roxas Avenue, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Quezon City, open Tuesday to Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm (closed 30 November). There is a short waiting period to view the show. For directions to Vargas Museum, click here: http://vargasmuseum.wordpress.com/visiting-the-museum/where-we-are/

Dalena’s exhibition is also the fourth offering of End Frame Video Art Project 3, a project of the non-profit organization Visual Pond. Throughout the Philippine video art festival, artists stage a solo show presenting new video work in various venues from 2011 to 2012. For more information, visit http://www.visualpond.org and for further inquiries, email visualpond@gmail.com or call +63.917.5357955.

The talk is sponsored by the GeiserMaclang marketing communication company with refreshments from Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. The show is made possible by Visual Pond and Vargas Museum and the exhibition’s co-presenters: the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, the University of the Philippines’ College of Mass Communications and Department of Art Studies, the Ateneo Art Gallery, GeiserMaclang and the individuals Carlo Gabuco and Gym Lumbera.