Foundation News

Opening: Sundance by Kawayan de Guia, Neal Oshima, Julius Clar and Allan Razo, Silverlens Gallery, June 24, 2009, Wednesday, 6-9pm

Silverlens Gallery proudly presents Sundance, a collection of photograms by Kawayan de Guia, Neal Oshima, Allan Razo and Julius Clar. The artists take a back-to-basics approach and utilize alternative photographic processes—Platinum Prints, Cyanotypes, Kallitypes (Vandyke Prints) and Gum Bichromate Prints—that antedate the first silver gelatin photographs by more than a century.

Amid the digital age, of hyper-progression and technological advancement, de Guia, Oshima, Razo and Clar take a retro step to the most basic and organic of photographic processes using the sun as their ‘darkroom’. Each process is an arduous one, subject to uncontrollable variables that demand fastidious experimentation. Each uniquely imperfect print is a suggestive abstraction of its original subject, this artisanal nature contributes to its longevity.

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For inquiries, contact Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati, 816-0044, 0905-2650873, or manage@silverlensphoto.com. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7pm and Saturdays 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.

Image: Detail, Allan Razo, Shell 3, 2005 and Cactus, 2004

Family Spaces
Stella Kalaw
January 8 – February, 2009
Opening reception on January 8, Thursday, 6pm

Silverlens Gallery welcomes 2009 with a photography show by United States based artist Stella Kalaw. Over the last fifty years, the Filipino diaspora has altered the landscape of families and the relationships that bind. Kalaw, having left the Philippines over ten years ago, returns to show Family Spaces, a series of photographs of her immediate family members’ homes all over the world. Continents apart, each home is a glimpse of interconnectedness through objects of the everyday Filipino. Worn tsinelas on a stair landing, a tabo floating in a balde, the Sacred Heart of Jesus–all markers of Pinoy identity, they are umbilical cords to the familiar. The color photographs present cultural identity through markers that belong to one extended family, but stand in for any Filipino family anywhere in the world.

Stella Kalaw (b. 1969 in Manila) graduated with a degree in Professional Photography from the Brooks Institute of Photography in California, under a Fuji Scholarship and worked as an intern in Irving Penn’s Studio in New York City shortly after. Kalaw has been part of group shows in Washington, New York, California and at the Ayala Museum in Manila. Her works have garnered awards such as a Honorable Mention in the Polaroid International Awards and the Gold Prize in American Photo Magazine’s New Views Awards.

Family Spaces by Stella Kalaw opens at 6pm on January 8, Thursday and runs until February 7, 2009. There will be an Artist Talk by Stella Kalaw on January 10, Saturday, from 3-5pm. Family Spaces will be shown along with Library Bookworks by Renato Orara at SLab (Silverlens Lab).

Silverlens Gallery is at 2/F YMC Bldg. II, 2320 Pasong Tamo Ext., Makati, 816-0044, 0905-2650873, manage@silverlensphoto.com. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7pm and Saturdays 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.

Image:
Stella Kalaw
First Lamp at Somerville, 2007

Coalescence – Science and Art
Photographs by Dr. Gil Jacinto
13 November 2008 – 16 January 2009
The Edge Gallery
G/F, UP Vargas Museum

The UP Jorge B. Vargas Museum will open Coalescence – Science and Art on 13 November 2008, Thursday, 6:00 PM at the Edge Gallery, a photo exhibition by Dr. Gil Jacinto, Professor of Marine Science at the University of the Philippines – Diliman.

Coalescence, defined as a fusion that arises from the combination of distinct elements, is the term that Dr. Gil Jacinto associates himself. A chemical oceanographer and a photographer, the boundary between these two facets of his life disappears when he embarks on his work and travels. He takes and creates photographs as a hobby, a source of rejuvenation and inspiration, and as a venue for imagining and creating new perspectives of the world as he sees it.

This collection of photographs by Dr. Jacinto delves into the world of art through his use of prosumer digital cameras and an entry-level digital SLR. The images reflect not only science in art or art in science, but science and art – the disappearance of boundaries. The captivating colors of sunsets and sunrises, real and figurative reflections, the haunting face of an 88-year old woman camouflaged by the bark of a sampaloc tree, and the beauty of a backlit flower of a common bush all manifest the union of the scientific discipline and the aesthetics.

Coalescence will run until 16 January 2009. The museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. For more details, please contact the UP Vargas Museum at 928-1927 (Direct line), 981-8500 local 4024 (UP Trunkline), 928-1925 (Fax) or (0929) 8567909 (Mobile). You can also send your inquiries via e-mail to vargasmuseum@gmail.com.

The Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Inc. invites its members to a Fellowship activity on Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 6pm at Silverlens Gallery.

Isa Lorenzo of Silverlens talks on

Collecting Photography

On view at the gallery are the works of visual artist, Noelle Katigbak Tan.

Rene Barbier wines will be served.

Silverlens Gallery is at 2330 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City.

For inquiry and attendance, please call MFPI office at 404 2685 or 0928 503 9392 and look for Elvie.

The Charles Harbutt Workshop has been evolving for over thirty years. It was first given in France at the Arles Festival in 1974 and has had been given in England, Italy, Mexico, and all over the United States. For twenty years, it was a twice-yearly feature at the International Center of Photography in New York. It had been taught in a semester long version at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pratt Institute and for the past ten years it has been a required course at Parsons School of Design.

This workshop will use the examples by masters of Twentieth century photography to learn what they discovered about how cameras see, and about how to make that vision express something of themselves. Each day there will be a slide lecture which will show a different component of photographic vision – lens, shutter, film/paper, and discuss their impact on how photographs “look”. Field assignments will be given daily and will be reviewed in the next class.

Having taken photography apart, students will try to discover how they can put it back together in their own unique way, to be able to find their own “look” as photographers.

Prerequisites: Portfolio review. Portfolios will be accepted at silverlens gallery until 6pm on Dec. 12, Wed.
Registration Fee: P10,000 (exclusive of materials)
Required Materials: At least 10 rolls of film or a digital camera

15 Slots Available

Sessions:
Jan. 11, Fri. 5-9pm
Jan. 12, Sat. 9am-5pm
Jan. 18, Fri. 5-9pm
Jan. 19, Sat. 9am-5pm

About the Instructor
For the first twenty years of his photographic life, Charles Harbutt was a photojournalist, working mostly through MAGNUM PHOTOS (of which he was twice president) for magazines in Europe, Japan and the United States. Since 1980, Harbutt has increasingly pursued more personal interests in photography, especially the extension of documentary into the everyday. He is a full time faculty member of the PARSONS School of Design Photography Program and a teacher at the INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY in New York City, where he lives. Mr. Harbutt is also opening his first show in the Philippines at the silverlens gallery on Jan. 10, 2008 with a mini-retrospective “Charles Harbutt”.

To Register:
816-0044 (Look for Leonore or Rica)
manage@silverlensphoto.com

50% Reservation Fee required
Balance due on first day of classes

All classes are at silverlens gallery,
2320 Pasong Tamo Ext. Makati City

www.silverlensphoto.com