Tuesday, December 22, 2009

2009 PHILIPPINE ART TREK


The Philippine Embassy in Singapore would like to inform you that the annual Philippine Art Trek in Singapore will open in November with the anchor exhibit In the Eye of Modernity: Philippine Neo-Realist Masterworks from the Ateneo Art Gallery at the Singapore Art Museum, from 14 November 2009 to 14 March 2010. Co-organized by the Philippine Embassy in Singapore, Manila-based Ateneo Art Gallery, and the Singapore Art Museum, this major exhibit showcases the seminal paintings and sculptures from the 1950s to the ‘60s that helped revolutionize Philippine visual arts.

The month-long Art Trek will feature six exhibitions organized by six galleries in what has become the largest annual exhibitions on Philippine art overseas. Philippine art specialists Artesan+Studio, Galerie Joaquin Singapore, Sunjin, Utterly Art, Valentine Willie Fine Art galleries and the Ateneo Art Gallery will take visitors on a dazzling visual journey, as they unveil in six separate but related exhibits, new and iconic artworks by Filipino masters and emerging artists.

The Chinoy Connection, organized by Utterly Art, presents the works of young contemporary Filipino artists J. de Juras, J. Vicente. J. Mangobang Jr., M. Bonayog, R. Ambagan, R. Adeva Jr. 4-15 November 2009 at Utterly Art gallery.

Valentine Willie Fine Art showcases the new works of young artists Constantino Zicarelli, Dex Fernandez, Electrolychee, Ferdz Valencia, John Torres, Maria Jeona, Mark Salvatus, Martha Atienza, Mica Cabildo, MM Yu, and Tatong Recheta Torres in the exhibit Forever and Ever and Ever and Ever. 6-29 November 2009 at ARTSPACE@Helutrans.

Sunjin Galleries will feature the works of Clairelynn Uy in the exhibit System Revisited. 7-21 November 2009 at Sunjin Galleries.

Artesan Gallery + Studio features Nessun Dorma (None Shall Sleep), new paintings by Lyra Garcellano. 20 November - 2 December 2009 at Artesan.

Celebration is Galerie Joaquin Singapore’s salute to the Filipino Neo-Realist and contemporary masters. 25 November-9 December 2009 at the BMW Perfomance Motors Showroom Event Hall.

For more information about Art Trek and the exhibits, please do not hesitate to call Ms. Pearl Camento, Cultural Assistant of the Philippine Embassy, at 6737 –3977, local 101 or email to php@pacific.ner.sg.

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