VERA Files
An exhibit titled Litanya: 1972-1922 shows the works of Jose Tence Ruiz at the Ateneo Art Gallery until September 2, 2023. It marks the artists’s 50 years “from inception and attraction” to art at age 16.
Perry Sevidal Ballet on its 29th Year presents: A Day of Dance on July 1, 2023, 11 a.m. at Dancing Queen Studio in Makati Cinema Square, Makati City.
Steps is Jon Pettyjohn’s third solo ceramics exhibition at the Silverlens Galleries, running until 8 July 2023. In this exhibit, the artist’s pursuit of individual expression comes to the fore in the context of working with clay and its traditions for over 45 years.
Muntadas identified three traded objects or presentés —the mantón de Manila or Manila Shawl, medallions and coins, and ceramics —as his subjective interpretations of connecting with the past and the present of the Philippines.
New printmaking approaches have been created by the artists that include a textile print of a dilapidated house hanging like a giant lantern, using termite soil rubbings to wall print installations.
For the younger generation who have not experienced this dark period in Philippine history, the images “are attestations or historical narratives of atrocities committed to individual, families, and communities.”
Overall, Bose’s work expressed a strong sense of Filipino roots, particularly its indigeneity and folk sensibilities.
Among young Kalingas, the practice of having traditional tattoos has declined ages ago. In contrast, local and international visitors have made the remote village of Buscayan, Kalinga a hot spot for getting a tattoo from Whang-ud, considered as the last and the oldest mambatok in Kalinga.
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s chronicler, described Butuan as a place where “pieces of gold, of the size of walnuts or eggs” were found.
Through the EYG Resource Collection, Filipinos today can rediscover and establish a precious connection with the aesthetic and functional gaze of early Filipinos.