Established artists from the Philippines whose practices investigate how their work, lifestyles and realities make up a complex society are featured in The Drawing Room, a gallery founded in Manila by director Cesar Villalon Jr. in 1998. The gallery features Philippine Contemporary Art icons such as Kiko Escora, and Kawayan de Guía along with Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, and Jose Legaspi who are critically acclaimed internationally. The Drawing Room supports interdisciplinary art processes, presents works at international art fairs, and also collaborates with public art institutions in Manila and the region to exhibit and acquire Filipino contemporary art.
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m/b LOCOMATE is a voyage of memory. New works in the exhibition enrich the metaphors Diokno Pasilan explores in his art practice about people and communities. Particularly informed by the motions of an islander people from the Philippines – a community where the artist grew up in – m/b Locomote constructs portraits from rust and into rice containers colloquial to the community.
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KAWAYAN DE GUIA
Self And the Other 1 (2012)
RIEL HILARIO
A Conversation Between Worlds (2012)
ALVIN GREGORIO
Jeepney or Tales of Love, War and the American Dream (2012)
This event surveys most of the artists exhibiting with The Drawing Room, and gathers major works that represent dynamic inquiries into artistic formats and practices that happen within the mingling of cosmopolitan and arcane cultures in Manila. The artists' critical and experientially-grounded methods portray a specific Philippines in constant flux.
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