Foundation News

Date: October 13, 2007 (Saturday)
Time: 2:00 to 4:00 pm
Venue: Lopez Memorial Museum, G/F Benpres Bldg., Pasig
Fee: P50 (students); P100 (Museum Foundation members); P150 (non-members)

The Lopez Memorial Museum and the Museum Foundation of the Philippines will host a lecture by preeminent comic writer and artist Gerry Alanguilan on Philippine Komiks on October 13, 2007 (Saturday) from 2:00 - 4:00 pm. Komiks in the Philippines had its golden age in the 1950s to the early 1970s and is on a resurgence. The talk will provide an overview of the history of komiks the aesthetics as well as the artists and work involved in this collaborative art.

Alanguilan is a licensed architect who has become known for his work as an inker for Marvel, DC and Image, and on books like New X-men, Fantastic Four, X-Force, Wolverine, Batman: Danger Girl, Silent Dragon, and Superman: Birthright. Here in the Philippines, he has written and drawn comics since 1992 including Johnny Balbona. Siglo Anthology stories, Lastik-Man, Tales of the Big City, Timawa, Humanis Rex! and published Wasted, Crest Hut Butt Shop, Dead Heart Stories and currently Elmer through his own Komikero Publishing.

Alanguilan has not only inspired artists through his works and advice but is continually working to make more people appreciate the works of local comic artists from the 1950s to the 1970s.

The Stories on Philippine Art lecture series aims to create more awareness of various personalities, art forms and practices in the country. Fee is Php50 for students, Php100 for Museum Foundation members, Php150 for non-Museum Foundation members. Lectures will be held at the Lopez Memorial Museum, ground floor, Benpres Building, Exchange Road corner Meralco Avenue, Pasig City. For more info, call 631-2417 or 404-2685.

Selected works by Gerry Alanguilan:

For more information on Gerry Alanguilan you can visit his blog at http://gerry.alanguilan.com/.

An Intimate Portrait of Juan Luna
by Prof. Ambeth Ocampo
Saturday, September 15, 10am-12nn

Juan Luna celebrates his 150th birth anniversary this October. NCCA Chairman, author, and expert, Prof. Ambeth Ocampo, promises an interesting take on this National Hero. The talk will deal with Luna as an artist in the context of the emergence of the Filipino nation as well as his human side.

The painting shows the Spoliarium of the Roman Coliseum where the dead gladiators were taken from the arena above. The Spolarium belongs to the National Museum Collection.

Sept. 15, Sat – 10 am – 12 nn, Ablaza Hall, National Art Gallery. Fees are: P200 Museum Foundation members; P300 non-members; P75 for students (please bring your ID)

You can download the reservation form in pdf or zipped pdf formats.

The National Art Gallery is now open to the public. Entrance is free until August 18, 2007.

August 7 - September 1, 2007
Silverlens Gallery
Reception August 7, 2007, 6-9 pm

These are one of a kind collaged darkroom photographs of the old Malate, Manila house Isa Lorenzo grew up in.

“I got to thinking about my mother’s house, how it is a repository of installations: the height markings on the edge of a bedroom door, tableaus of decorative trinkets, walls and walls of photographs — and I thought to photograph these installations, these collections of objects left behind by the generations of the house’s occupants.”

“After a couple of times shooting, I realized that more than the objects, it was the house itself. The wooden floors in various patterns, the steps in the hallways, the grills on the windows and doors, the doorstops, the clocks and the banisters — these are most vivid.”

“So I shot those and I shot the installations and in the darkroom, started the process of laying down memories to print in a way not unlike remembering — In layers, selectively, with images that come forward and some that recede, depending on the memories and their meanings. I laid them out in my storyboard book, and made notations as to which should touch, overlap, or be far apart in the same sheet of paper. I printed according to densities, according to contrasts, and mostly, according to feel.”

Saturday Gallery Events, 3-5 pm, open to the public

• August 18, Architecture and Heritage Talk
• August 25, Isa Lorenzo Gallery Talk
• September 1, Manila Symphony Orchestra:

On the closing day of the show, members of the String Section of the Manila Symphony Orchestra will be performing the same pieces in solo at different parts of the gallery. The audience is invited to complete the performance by walking through the show and experiencing different soundscapes.

Gallery Hours are M-F 10-7pm, and Sat 1-6pm.
For inquiries: 816.0044 | manage@silverlensphoto.com

In cooperation with the National Museum, the Museum Foundation, and Holcim Philippines, Inc., the Green Architecture Movement (GAM) of the United Architects of the Philippines, a prime mover on Green Architecture in design and construction, is holding it’s fourth Green Forum on 16 June 2007, from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, at the 4 th floor of the Museum of the Filipino People, Tambunting Villonco Hall, Finance Road Manila.

True to its objective, GAM continues to seek ways and means to advocate green principles in any development. In line with the Building Modernity Exhibit, GAM’s forum entitled “Sustainable Design of Philippine Tourism”, aims to provide information on the current needs of grass-root entrepreneurship or small to medium scale developments in eco-tourism.

GAM feels that eco-tourism must be emphasized in the advance and use of potential tourist destinations without harming our fragile environment. Sustainability, implementation, management and optimum responsiveness to end-users’ are key requirements for green developments. This means minimal site disturbance and careful resource management by the community to preserve the local ecology. Thus, speakers in the forum will come from different design, engineering and implementing sectors.

Green architecture involves design that is environmentally sensitive, in harmony with the natural features of the site, energy efficient and utilizes materials that are produced by environmentally responsible companies, are indigenous and/or recyclable. GAM began as a committee in the year 2000, as a result of the continuing advocacy on environmental awareness brought about by the United Conference on Environment (UNCED) or the Earth Summit. The Committee on Green Architecture was later changed to what is now the Green Architecture Movement.

With the 4th Annual Green Forum, the movement hopes to provide significant insights to implementers of tourism projects such as government agencies, private developers, architects, engineers and other allied professions, in producing sustainable and responsive eco-tourism facilities.

For more information or for reservations, interested parties may please contact the UAP-GAM Headquarters or Marvin of the UAP Secretariat at telephone nos. 412-6374, 412-6364, or 412-6403.

You can download the programme in pdf or zip format.

Stories about Philippine Art Series
Philippine Muslim Art: Context, Aesthetics and Some Issues

The Lopez Memorial Museum and the Museum Foundation of the Philippines will host a talk by Dr. Abraham Sakili of the Department of Art Studies of University of the Philippines on Philippine Muslim Art: Context, Aesthetics and Some Issues on April 21, 2007 from 2 - 4 pm. The diverse visual art forms such as architecture, metal works and weaponry, textiles, woven mats and others will be shown and annotated. Lecture fee is PhP100 for members and PhP150 for non-members.

The contexts of history, Islamic culture and addat or indigenous tradition of the major Muslim groups in the Philippines such as the Tausug, Maranao, Maguindanao, Sama, Yakan and to some extent Badjao will be discussed along with important issues associated with the so-called Islamic prohibition of figurative art form, inter-ethnic “continuum” discerned through some art forms and the problem of “representation” as exteriorization of Muslim or Islamic art and culture.

This is fourth in the Stories about Philippine Art series which aims to create more awareness of the various personalities, art forms and practices in the Philippines. The Lopez Memorial Museum is at the ground floor, Benpres Building, Exchange Road corner Meralco Avenue, Pasig City. Museum days and hours are Monday-Saturday, 8am-5pm, except holidays.

For more information or reservations please call 404-2685/ 0928-503-9392 and look for Elvie or Patricia or call Flor at 722-9073; or call the Lopez Museum at call 6312417 or 4042685 or email pezseum@skyinet.net.