Twelve artists, mostly from the later decades of the 20th century, are featured in this exhibit, which combines older work with more recent pieces representing the progression of Philippine art. Informative as it is important, Alice Guillermo looks at the importance of art not just for beauty's sake but art as a chronicle of the social ferment of recent decades.
Most striking to me are Neil Doloricon's rubber cuts and wood cuts, Edgar Talusan Fernandez's Martsa ng Bayan Para sa Kalayaan, Jose Tence Ruiz's Mga Alamat ng Manananggal. His Kompromiso: Mona and Kompromiso: Lisa are in woefully delicate physical condition for works just 15 years old.
The museum itself as an exhibition space is ideal as a gallery: climate-controlled and in no way cramped. It also houses the Wili and Doreen Fernandez Art Collection, 416 pieces which ought to be Ateneo's. Wouldn't the Fernandezes be similarly biased if they were alive?
until August 22
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