In four weeks
IN THE past three years, the best thing that happened in the local art scene is the establishment of the Alternative Contemporary Art Studio (Acas) within the sacred grounds of the Sacred Heart Parish.
That is because the gallery is making focus in the exhibition of contemporary art...
Imagine, imahen, imagine
AMONG those that are initiated in the complexities of art, it is not difficult to imagine that two seemingly different cultures can be harmoniously developed as one.
Jojo bagged it
SINCE local art competitions happen only as annual events, artists wait too long to join them. But an artist can now take part in as many art contests as his heart fancies.
Carcar’s portrait
FOR this year’s annual painting competition in Carcar, new guidelines were implemented that included specific painting style that conforms to the Martino Abellana’s school of thought, a much larger canvas size and the prize significantly increased.
Transported
A SELECT representation of contemporary Cebuano art was crated and transported to Manila as Cebu’s participation to the “CEB-MNL: An Exhibition.” It was an art project of the Ateneo de Manila University Fine Arts Program and senior students majoring in arts management.
Mixing and matching
CANDY colors and letters—can they find wedded bliss in a painting?
Here’s an artist who admittedly claims that she’s more exposed to words, but not because she is a writer. It helps that she’s also a painter.
Night life and Lucidity
THIS season is blessed with a bountiful harvest of fresh and new talents, particularly in the field of painting.
Graduating fine arts students are all out in the open doing solo exhibits in various locations around the city in order to show to the metro their output and to encourage the...
Turn on the headlights
THERE was this art group that just had to hibernate. But actually, it was more like taking an extended vacation to recharge their cells. Turn on the headlights—and see what’s new on the road.
Now the art group Tuslob Buwa is back. And there’s no other better way to tell the world that...
Symbolisms
AS THE month of March trudges on to reveal what is in store for us, we almost immediately hear of graduations and the congratulatory celebrations that come after fresh graduates step out of the academe.
Art tourism cometh
THERE’S medical tourism, eco-tourism, and now art tourism.
Finally, after the tourism industry underwent so much repackaging to attract the taste of every traveler who visits our country, art has found another purpose.
New year art blast
THE Cebu Artists Incorporated (CAI)—a local organization of visual artists whose members include professional painters, sculptors and photographers—opened the new year with a big bang.
CAI did not just came up with the usual run of the mill show of artworks that happens all year round....
The Good Wood
LONG before art cafes and establishments serving as artist’s havens and the cafe culture became a fad there was Kukuk’s Nest.
For decades, the renowned hangout for artists was located along Gorordo Ave. near the Escario St. intersection.
Sweet travails
YOU wouldn’t think that a parish art gallery can effect a change, would you?
Art projects that were conceived at the Sacred Heart Parish Alternative Art Gallery (SHPAAG) have changed the artistic landscape of the city significantly because the gallery’s main direction is to present...
Child wonder
A LOT of things go on in Cebu while the city anticipates the celebration of the Feast of the Sto. Nino, and the vibrant and colorful pageantry of the Sinulog.
Samboan Museum
LATELY the Province of Cebu has been experiencing a widespread cultural phenomenon.
We’ve been seeing a wave of consciousness that has inspired people to be more aware of such things like town heritage, local history, folk tradition and native artistry.
A landscapist’s landscapist
A NUMBER of Cebuano visual artists have training in architecture. And because of their rigid background in the field, they tend to be more precise in rendering pictorial imagery.
A garden of early delights
EVERY year, the Bantawan Sugbu, home of the Cebu Performing Company, stages original stage plays from its resident playwright Crispin Ramos.
Form bender
JUST when everyone thinks that contemporary art forms are found, made and exhibited only in big metropolitan cities, think again.
Small town art isn’t lacking in the modern flair because there sure are artists creating modern art and who find contentment in the quiet and laid-back...
Modern Renaissance: Man of God
THE Monsignor Virgilio Yap can be credited for the propagation of abstract art in Cebu because he taught and introduced it to a great number of people at a time when local art was focused on conservative and traditional, realistic painting.
His dedication to visual arts has made him the...
From Russia with art
RUSSIA has heady selection of art—from icon paintings, to decorative folk creations and abstract works, to monumental architecture like the Saint Basil’s Cathedral, and Smolny Cathedral in St. Petersburg. It is a country of great artistic wealth and rich history.
Cebu recently had a visit...
Life-giving elements
ART has the malleability of its media. It can conform to the direction of the hand that leads it, so to say. There is sometimes an element of surprise.
The value of a clear eye
A STREAM of continuous consciousness flows during his art making process. He is basically a figurative artist, and a realist artist by nature. His art revolves around the objective and representational narratives of Filipino genre painting. The latter is like freezing a moment and slices of...
A festival of hope
GLOBALISM can be showcased through multi-cultural participation in community events.
Conclave of the brush
SINCE the very start of Cebu’s written history, its people have always been open to its neighbors and the outside world.
Today, nothing much has changed. The Cebuanos are still known to be most welcoming, accommodating and hospitable. These traits are valued and secured to last for a...
Artist as adventure
LIVING proof that the Philippines has long been a rich and fertile ground to spawn art is the presence of outsiders.
