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The Museum Foundation of the Phils. invites you to a luncheon lecture on March 24, 2007, Saturday at 11.30 am

No on can fill a table like the Filipinos do; it is a spectacle of colors, flavors, textures and smells. The combination of ingredients is a fusion of various cultures and the harvest of the season. How did our favorite dishes develop? What has shaped our manner of dining? What is the essence of a Filipino Meal? As food enthusiast Pia Lim-Castillo explains this, we shall delight in a feast prepared by celebrated chef Jessie Sincioco.

Join the Museum Foundation as we explore the delights of the Filipino Meal. Let us waft in the lessons that shaped our history and our foods and let us savor the local fare skillfully prepared by the Le Souffle Team.

Come, the Filipino Meal awaits.

Members: P950
Non-members: P1,100
The fee in inclusive of lunch and one drink.

You can download the reservation form in pdf or zip format.

For details or reservations, please call Elvie Magpayo/ Patricia Limon at 404-2685 or Flor Cortez at 722-9073.

About Us:
Pia Lim-Castillo is a confirmed food enthusiast going beyond cuisines, tastes and flavors. She does academic researches on food history, nutrition and food science. She regularly attends the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery and delivers papers on chosen topics pertaining to Philippine culinary culture.

Museum Foundation of the Philippines is an organization dedicated to developing greater awareness and appreciation in the Filipino people of our country’s rich artistic and cultural heritage in partnership with the National Museum.

Building Modernity: A Century of Architecture and Allied Arts traces the evolution of architecture and designed environment in the Philippines in the 20th century, structures that had been created within the framework of modernism. The exhibition is composed of archival photographs, paintings, vintage graphics, blueprints, building components and ornaments, and related artifacts. The exhibition underscores the larger stylistic tendencies, movements, ideologies, and technologies that have shaped the complex Filipino architectural culture of the last century; acknowledging the plural expressions of modernity.

The exhibition is a collaborated project of the Committee on Architecture and the Allied Arts of the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA), together with National Museum of the Philippines and the UP College of Architecture . Exhibition opens on February 7, 2007 , 5 pm at the Museum of the Filipino People (formerly Finance Building), National Museum Complex, Manila. It will be the main feature of the National Museum from February until May 2007.

For exhibit information you can download the exhibit notes in pdf format.

Museum Foundation of the Philippines and the Lopez Memorial Museum invite you to the third in the series Stories on Philippine Art: Uncovering the National Art Gallery. Curator Patrick D. Flores will give us a private viewing and on-site lecture of the National Art Gallery which was closed since 2001. We will see seven galleries, including:

“Vessels of Faith” which presents the various artifacts that discuss the different aspects of Philippine spirituality. Exhibited pieces include an 18th century altar, devotional images and granary statuaries.

The “Hall of Masters” exhibits two monumental masterpieces of the 19th century masters, namely Juan Luna and Feliz Resurrection Hidalgo. The recently restored Spolarium was a gold medal winner at the 1884 Madrid Exposition of Fine Arts and Hidalgo’s La Tragedia del Gobernador Fernando de Bustamante y Bustillos was declared a National Cultural Treasure in 1974. Complementing these paintings are 19th century works from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.

The “National Artists for the Visual Arts Hall” pays homage to the National Artists and traces their artistic contributions in the development of Philippine art. It features representative works of the fourteen artists who have been conferred the honor.

The National Art Gallery sustains the efforts of the National Museum to present to the Filipino people the wide array of expressive endeavors and artists that have come and continue to form the vibrant tradition of art and culture in the country. It instills a pride of place, a lineage of achievement, and an inspiration towards a creative future.

About the Lecturer:
Prof. Patrick D. Flores is a Professor and former Chairperson of the Department of Art Studies, U.P. Diliman, where he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Humanities, Art History and Philippine Studies. He was the Starr Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1999 and was awarded the Asian Pacific Intellectuals Fellowship of the Nippon Foundation in 2004.

Date and Venue:
Saturday, March 10, 2007
10:00 am to 12:00 nn
Meet at the Lobby of the
National Museum, Main Bldg
P. Burgos St., Manila

Fee:
P150.00 for Members
P300.00 for Non-Members

Maximum of 30 participants only

For information or reservations, please call 404-2685 or 0928.503.9392 and look for Elvie Magpayo/ Patricia Limon or call 6312417 and look for Fanny San Pedro/Joy Victoria

You can download the March 2007 reservervation for in pdf or zipped pdf.

Art Lecture @ Lopez Museum
Do You See What I See: Optics and Its Implication on Display and Documentation

The Lopez Memorial Museum and First Generation Corporation have invited renowned physicist Dr. Maricor Soriano on February 17, 2007 (Saturday) from 2 to 4pm. Dr. Soriano will discuss the phenomena behind the physical factors of vision and color appearance in a talk called “Do You See What I See: Optics and Its Implications on Display and Documentation.”

Dr. Soriano heads the Video and Image Processing Group in the Instrumentation Physics Lab since 2004 and was head of the Color Imaging Laboratory in the University of Oulu, Finland from 1998 -2000. She is an associate professor of physics at the National Institute of Physics.

The lecture complements the ongoing exhibit Fuzzy Logic: Art and Science which is the Lopez Memorial Museum’s contribution to Zero In 5, a collaborative project among Ateneo Art Gallery, Ayala Museum, Bahay Tsinoy, Lopez Memorial Museum and Museo Pambata. Zero In 5 marks the 5th year that this museum consortium has pooled its efforts to share and expand museum-going audiences and more pointedly focus on bridging formal and museum education modes.

Lopez Museum days and hours are Mondays-Saturdays, 8am-5pm, except Sundays and holidays. Lecture fee is P120. Pls call 631-2417 for details.

Why is it that a fair complexion is part of our country’s standard of beauty? One explanation posited in Sculpture in the Philippines: From Anito to Assemblage is that the flesh tones of the sculptures of holy personages which people saw fascinated them. This flesh tone is accomplished through the technique known as encarnacion. It involves priming wood so as to make it non-porous, application of paint and finishing. Traced to Spanish tradition in religious art, encarnacion flourished in the country. Of late, however, there are fewer and fewer practitioners.

Writer-editor Tats Manahan shares her knowledge on design techniques such as marbleizing and estofado. Taking off from the encarnacion process which is used in the Philippines to create flesh tones in religious sculptures, Ms Manahan will touch on both the Italian and American methods of using the processes to create decorative works.

Practices such as the encarnador technique are part of a country’s cultural heritage. This lecture and the upcoming workshops on the Encarnador are all part of the effort of the Museum Foundation of the Philippines and the Lopez Memorial Museum to preserve practices such as this.

Stories on Philippine Art: The Encarnador will be held on Saturday, January 13, 2007, from 10 am - 12 nn at the Tambunting-Villonco Hall of the Museum of the Filipino People, Valencia Circle, Rizal Park, Manila. The fee for Museum Foundation members is P50 and non-members P100.

For reservations please call 404.2685 or 0917.8170127 and look for Elvie Magpayo or Patricia Limon.

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Tats Rejante Manahan specialized in Stuco Marmorino, Lacca Venezia, Scagliola at Centro Europeo per Formazione degli Artigiami, in Venice, Italy, mentored by Prof Mario Fogliata. As a surface designer, she has done residential projects and public spaces in the Philippines, Los Angeles, Singapore and San Francisco. Her work was recently featured in Architectural Digest , September 2006. She was also part of the team that restored Gota de Leche, a project given honorable mention by UNESCO for Heritage Conservation in Asia.

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