Established and emerging Filipino artists take centerstage in a week-long collaborative showcase between Art Anton and Art Elaan, opening this Friday at S Maison.
The joint event, titled Art in the Atrium, will occupy the Main Atrium of the Pasay City mall with a collection of solo shows and group exhibitions, featuring artists from the two galleries’ roster of talents. Art in the Atrium runs from July 16 to July 23.
Comprising Art Anton’s lineup are three solo exhibitions and one group show.
Part of the gallery’s one-artist presentations is Ardour, the latest exhibition of sculptor and jeweler Anita del Rosario. The artist began her artistic career as a comics illustrator for several publishing groups, before transitioning into the field of jewelry design, and then into sculpture. Del Rosario rose to fame with her imaginative iterations of the cross using a motley of materials. One of her featured works in the show is a twisting, zippy image of Christ, titled Redemeer Ver.2, made of resin, copper, mother of pearl and wood.
Another renowned sculptor featured in a solo show is Richard Buxani. In Kira Kira, the artist offers new products of his ever-evolving relationship with raw brass. Thor, for instance, is Buxani’s electric take on the famous Norse god of thunder and lightning, depicted in mid-swing of his mighty Mjolnir.
Rounding up the gallery’s solo show offerings is Khervin Gallandez’s Between Horizons. The self-taught painter comes through yet again with his textured landscapes, as is the case with his Sunset at Pangil Rock Formations, which evokes an intense feeling of longing.
Together with Art Anton’s solo shows for Art in the Atrium is a group show that gathers five artists. Collective Mindscape will feature the works of Louie Ignacio, Rico Lascano, Jay Ragma, Eddie Santillan and Aner Sebastian.
Meanwhile, Art Elaan will be mounting one group exhibition for the week-long event. The show, titled Empire, presents a plethora of different styles and mediums.
Sculptors Ferdinand Cacnio and Marge Organo offer new works that clash in terms of visual texture: Cacnio’s sharper and more rugged leaves and shoes in brass versus Organo’s softer and warmer blocks of optical glass.
Elsewhere in the show are the gentle portraits of women by prolific painters Ronnie Lim and Reynard Borillo. While a bashful geisha in Borillo’s Humble But Solitary shies away from the audience, turning her head down with her eyes covered by flowers, a woman blooms in confidence and shows off her accessory in Lim’s The Earring 1.
Also part of Art Elaan’s Empire are Mario de Rivera, Lorebert Maralita, Emil Alarcon, Bryan Apolinario, Nelson Ricahuerta and Ricky Natividad.
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