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German Jazz | Deutscher Jazz is a travelling exhibition that chronicles the history of German Jazz from the Berlin jazz scene in the 1920s to the persecution of jazz musicians during the Nazi era; from postwar developments in East and West Germany to the musicians, labels and festivals of the twenty-first century. The rare photographs from private and public archives are complemented by CD samples of recordings from the last eighty years. Text panels trace the development of this music form within the social and political history of Germany. Museum viewers will also have the opportunity to listen to German Jazz music with MP3 players that supplement the exhibition. German Jazz:Deutscher Jazz is produced by the Goethe-Institut and Dr. Wolfram Knauer, director of the Darmstadt Jazz-Institute.The Berliner Jazz Band Hyperactive Kid performed at the opening reception. An unconventional trio, the band has a bassless setup that allows saxophone, guitar and drums to take other musical paths. Since 2003 Hyperactive Kid fuses different styles – jazz with rock, hiphop, free Music, drum and bass and modern/contemporary music. All the members contribute original compositions.

Ayala Museum hosts jam sessions on two consecutive Thursdays on 11 March and 18 March, organized with the Philippine International Jazz Festival . Sandra Viray, festival organizer, performs on Wednesday, 24 March. Jazz aficionados will enjoy music and Sommelier Selection wine.

This exhibition is done in partnership with the Goethe-Institut. It is Goethe-Institut’s first time to partner with Ayala Museum since it opened in the Philippines. Goethe-Institut’s Director Richard Künzel and Ayala Museum’s Director Guillermo Luz hit the right note on jazz and are on the road to a long-term cultural partnership.

The Goethe-Institut thanks KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Sommelier Selection and The Philippine International Jazz Festival for their sponsorship and support.

German Jazz will be available for viewing to the public at the Ground Floor Gallery of Ayala Museum from March 10 to April 4, 2010. For more information, please call Ayala Museum at telephone (632) 7577117 to 21 local 29.

Dear Sweet Filthy World by Patricia Eustaquio
March 17, 2010, Wednesday
6-9 pm

Patricia Eustaquio, continues her exploration of memory with Dear Sweet Filthy World, bridging Elvis Costello’s song of the same name with oil paintings, cardboard sculptures, and boats cut from felt and cast in epoxy resin. Through these objects, Eustaquio expresses memory as an idea, and memory as she made it.

Eustaquio describes memory as a puzzle that must be broken down to be put back together again; it is ideas taken from our surroundings that “become floating individual thoughts that we access and take separately” to make a whole. Dear Sweet Filthy World is Eustaquio’s ode to this conceptual process, so vulnerable and relative, and yet at the same time, it is her narrative “to convey the irony of our feeling towards reality, the realities in life, the world.”

Taking her cue from the song, Eustaquio composes the show as a letter, allowing sentimentality and nostalgia to play a part. Understanding how one’s recreation of the past is built on fragments, Eustaquio allows her own memory to express itself, however limited and isolated it may be. As a subtext to Dear Sweet Filthy World, Eustaquio writes an actual letter, where she takes on the persona of someone coming to grips with a terrible event she has not experienced. This mirrors her memory of the Typhoon Ondoy tragedy. Watching from Delft, where she was completing her art residency, Eustaquio’s memory, time and space interfering, had gaps to be filled.

In doing so, Eustaquio’s art and language took a turn towards reaction. Dear Sweet Filthy World accuses the world, and questions the sweet and the filthy in it. Eustaquio wonders: “is the world sweet because of nature, and filthy because of man; is it vice versa; or is it either-or?” However personal, Dear Sweet Filthy World is also a set of “puzzles that complete themselves in the viewer’s mind”. Taking various forms and meanings, Eustaquio’s work allows us all to voice our feelings to a world where man struggles to shape memory, and fights to make sense of the ironies of life.

As in her previous show, Death to the Major,Viva Minor, Eustaquio allows us to question “the beautiful and grotesque, lifting the veil and revealing the void that waits underneath”.*

Patricia Eustaquio was awarded the CCP Thirteen Artists Award and the Ateneo Art Award in 2009, and will be part of the Art Omi Residency in New York in June.

*From Cross my heart and hope to die by Donna Miranda in Patricia Eustaquio’s catalogue (Silverlens Gallery)

Words: Bea Davila, Image: Patricia Eustaquio, Dear Sweet Filthy World II, 2010

The National Museum opened in January 2010 an exhibition titled “Botong Francisco Coching: Telling Modern Time, now on display at the 5th floor of the Museum of the Filipino People, National Museum (old Finance Building), T. Valencia Circle/Finance Road, Rizal Park, Manila.

The exhibition, curated by Dr. Patrick Flores, runs until the end of March 2010 and showcases the works of two masters, National Artist Carlos V. Francisco with his selected paintings, displayed back to back with comics illustrations of Francisco Coching.

As a collateral activity of the exhibition, on March 12 and 19, 2010, at 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., there will be lectures about the two contemporary artists. Alice Guillermo will speak on the first date while Robert Paulino and Solidad Reyes on the second, with Patrick Flores to discuss the curatorial component on both occasions. Both lectures will be conducted at the 4th floor, Tambunting Hall of the Museum of the Filipino People.

We would like to invite your fine arts students and faculty members to participate in both lectures. For confirmation or inquiries, please get in touch with Mr. Mel Lagartija or Ms. Rizza Salterio of the Museum Education Division at telefax no. 5270278. Please see attached file for the poster.

We look forward to seeing you at both lectures. Thank you.

Museum Education Division, National Museum

MFPI Lecture Series “POLITICS: PINOY STYLE”
“The Crisis of Leadership and the Challenge of Modernity”

In his lecture, Prof. Randy David proposes a way of looking at the governance problems of our society by linking these to the challenge of modernity.  He will try to show that many, if not all, of these problems are normal manifestations of the difficult and often confusing transition to modernity that every society has to confront at one time or another – rather than the symptoms of an accursed condition for which there is no other cure but to find a messiah in our midst.

This lecture of Prof. Randy David, the last in the MFPI’s lecture series on “Politics: Pinoy Style”, will be held at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at the Silverlens Gallery located at 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati City. MFPI Fellowship will follow right after the lecture.

Fees
MFPI Members – P100.00
Non-members – P200.00
Students – P50.00

Please download and fill out reply form. Fax to 404-2685 / 722-9073/ 810-6912.
Email to inquiry@museumfoundationph.org
You may also text/call 0928-5039392 (Elvie) or 0927-8484680 (Mae) to reserve slots.

Art in the Park 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
2:00 to 10:00 pm
Jaime Velasquez Park
Salcedo Village, Makati City

Art In The Park Feb 2010 will exhibit pieces from:

Art groups and individual artists: CANVAS, Zone 5 Camera Club, Kulay, SC Tan, TutoK, Art Wednesday, Invisible, Putik, Joey Cobcobo, Ryan Rubio, Allain Hablo, Lester Almacio, Mac Valdezco, Philippine Association of Printmakers, Ral Arrogante, Sheer Joy, Ang INK, Provenance Fine Arts Brokers, and Tara Soriano.

Students, teachers, and established artists from art schools: L’Arc En Ciel, TUP, FEATI, and FEU.

Art groups and art spaces from outside Metro Manila: The Mighty Bhutens and their mosaics from Baguio, Nineveh Art Space of Laguna, Amarela Gallery of Bohol, Hugis Sining from Bulacan, Parokyano ng Malabon, Neo-Angono Artists Collective.

Established galleries: Blanc, Tin-Aw, Tala Art Gallery, Galerie Astra, Nova Gallery, Galeria de las Islas, Metro Gallery, Art Verite, Ricco Renzo, West Gallery, Artis Corpus, Avellana Art Gallery, Art Cabinet, and Gallery Genesis.

AIP 2010 will also showcase two extraordinary pieces: LEEROY NEW reprises pieces from his Odeon Universal Galaxy Show, and LEA LIM creates Silence, her site specific installation of 100 swings.

A special screening of Moccolo, a video by Romina Diaz starts in the playground area at 6:00 pm sponsored by Galleria Duemila.

Food and drinks will be provided by La Cuisine Francaise, Straits Wines, Pizza di Grazia, Rafik Shawarma, Windows Cafe, and Nic’s Bakeshop. A jazz quartet will serenade us throughout the day.

Art in the Park 2010 is organized by the Museum Foundation of the Philippines with the help of Bgy. Bel Air, Security Bank MasterCard, and Radio U92 for the benefit of the National Museum and its network.

No admission fee. See you all there!

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