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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ALFREDO AND ISABEL AQUILIZAN
Last Flight, 2009
ALFREDO AND ISABEL AQUILIZAN
Wing, 2012
ALFREDO AND ISABEL AQUILIZAN
Transportables (After In-habit Project Another Country), 2012
ALFREDO AND ISABEL AQUILIZAN
Passages (After Project Another Country), 2012
This exhibition presents the Aquilizans’ tendencies towards scale and materiality of objects habitually associated with transportation and mobility. The language that structures their new sculptures are based on the organic, germinating process of informal urban settlers in the Philippines superimposed with constructivist formalism. The series in this exhibition will also refer to the overarching body of work such as Project: Another Country.
This is a new project by artist-collaborative of husband and wife Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Australia-based Filipino artists who are widely respected and engaged in the global artistic community. Their works address current modes of thought in cultural issues of migration and diaspora, the human need to belong and to make sense of being displaced.
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