Personal Mythology, Lost Memories + More Art Exhibits to Check Out This March
Experience art and exhibitions in various formats.
(SPOT.ph) If there’s anything that years of the pandemic taught us, it’s that art will continue to thrive no matter what. Art Fair Philippines, for one, came back this year with a live event, making us even more excited about exhibitions in various formats. Each show makes it more interesting for art enthusiasts to pay a visit to museums, galleries, and cultural centers. And there's no better time to visit these places than now.
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Check out these art exhibits in Metro Manila for the month of March:
Echo of a Site
Jill Paz’s solo presentation revolves around the palm tree as the central image and how it visually yet subtly transforms in the series of works. "Her work has always been about taking old images and revivifying them, making them new again. Her transformations are discreet, subtle but effective," states the exhibition notes.
Runs until March 19 at MO_Space Gallery, 3/F MOs Design, 9th Avenue, Bonifacio High Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City.
Mythology
The latest multimedia exhibition of Jed Gregorio, which includes art installations, videos, photos, and poetry, fills up the entire gallery of KalawakanSpaceTime. His artistic practice ranges from filmmaking to photography and performance in tackling themes about religion, masculinity, and narratives in a post-Internet setting.
Runs until March 24 at KalawakanSpaceTime Art Gallery, 2/F Casa Bella Building, 1046 Quezon Avenue corner Don A. Roces Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City.
The Wild Garden of Childhood
Modeka Art and art collective Empty Scholar collaborate in a group presentation of artists Miguel Puyat, Celline Mercado, Ian Anderson, Carzen Arpa Esprela, Chalk Zaldivar, and Kim Borja. The exhibition makes references to Pablo Neruda’s line “Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”
Runs until March 11 at Modeka, 20A La Fuerza I, 2241 Chino Roces Avenue, Makati City.
What Makes a Wave
In What Makes a Wave, Zoraya Lua explores the present technology and software-generated process of production in art. “The resulting composites do not intend to emphasize the duality between the natural and the artificial, but rather show the co-mingling of the two. So, what makes a wave?” states the exhibition text generated through AI.
Runs until March 11 at the Gravity Art Space Gallery, 1810 Mother Ignacia Avenue, Quezon City.
Glamorosa
Karen Castrillo-Villaseñor, daughter of renowned metal artist Ronald Castrillo, showcases her metal sculptures in Glamorosa. This show about women empowerment features metal and crystal pieces.
Runs until March 5 at the Grand Atrium and from March 9 to 19 at the East Atrium, Shangri-La Plaza, Shaw Boulevard, Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong City.
As Wild as We Come
In a homecoming exhibition, Wawi Navarozza narrates the personal transformations in her life as an artist and as a mother through a series of photographs. “[I] kind of like negotiating two sides of creativity. One creativity, making artworks, and [the] creativity of nurturing a child. Those are really loaded and this series kind of captures that transformative phase,” she says in an interview with SPOT.ph.
Runs until April 5 at Silverlens Galleries, 2263 Don Chino Roces Avenue Extension, Makati City.
Lost Years 3: Hourglass
Lost Years 3: Hourglass serves “as a platform for unrealized or lost ideas within an artist’s practice.” The group presentation features artists Gino Bueza, Zean Cabangis, Lec Cruz, JC Jacinto, and Alvin Zafra and their wall-bound works that encapsulate their idea about time.
Runs until March 23 at Artinformal, 277 Connecticut Street, Greenhills East, Mandaluyong City.
The memory of those lost paintings that disappeared with unrecognized view of life.
Maria Cruz goes beyond the familiar artistic process known to her and this time paints based on memory and the things she remembers. “Her current paintings shift into their art reminders: canvas, color, light, space, shape, distance, ideas, and so on.”
Runs until March 11 at The Drawing Room, G/F Building C, Karrivin Plaza, Chino Roces Avenue Extension, Makati City.
Caution! (eye protection required in this area)
Gabo Valenzuela's signature style of pop art with distorted characters and humor takes center stage in Caution! (eye protection required in this area). “Adding famous cartoon characters to my paintings is something I really enjoy and putting it all together I created my own style of pop art!” states Valenzuela in the caption of his poster.
Runs at Secret Fresh Gallery, G/F Ronac Art Center, Ortigas Avenue, Greenhills, San Juan City.
Out of the Dark Alley
Jobert Cruz, in an online presentation through Cartellino art shop, dives deep into different sequences and scenarios that take place when dreaming. Out of the Dark Alley makes sense of the instance of waking up from a dream with no recollection of what happened and yet this experience becomes embedded in one’s subconscious.
Runs online until March 10 through Cartellino's website.