Foundation News

With Prof Eliane C. Karp de Toledo
March 27, Tuesday, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Fee: FREE

The National Museum and Museum Foundation of the Philippines invites you to attend a very special lecture by anthropologist and former First Lady of Peru, Madam Eliane C. Karp de Toledo at the Ablaza Hall of the National Museum on March 27, 2:00 - 5:00 pm.

Mrs. Toledo is presently teaching as a visiting lecturer at Stanford University in California . As an anthropologist, she teaches courses related to indigenous peoples and their social inclusion to democracy in Latin American countries. As a diplomat, she practices what she preaches, presiding over various philanthropic entities, one of which is the Administrative Council of the Pacha Foundation for Change. This Foundation places special emphasis on the design of sustainable development projects based on traditional and communal organizations and the development of productive skills to promote the comparative economic advantages of the Peruvian biodiversity and its rich potential for ecotourism.

In relation to her areas of expertise, Mrs. Toldeo will discuss biodiversity, cultural heritage and the creation of alternatives sources of income such as eco-tourism managed by the indigenous communities.

The Museum of the Filipino People is found along Finance Road just off Padre Burgos. For information and reservation, please call Ms. Elvie Magpayo or Ms, Patricia Limon at 404 -2685 of Ms. Flor Cortez at 722-9073.

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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In Conversation: Anino Entertainment and Dr. Raul Pertierra
November 18 2006, 2-4 pm
The challenge to create games, virtual reality and 3D graphics is to come up with one which is technologically sophisticated or at the very least, updated, and at the same time visually appealing. To discuss the challenges and solutions as well as their implications on Philippine culture are Mr. Elson Niel Dagondon of Anino Entertainment and Dr. Raul Pertierra of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Ateneo de Manila University.

Artist’s Talk: Kidlat Tahimik
January 20 2007, 2-4 pm
Art and technology, new and old practices incompatible? How would one use one to sustain the other? Filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik talks about his experience in teaching a community to document its practices, some of which are fast disappearing. The techniques may be adapted for use in documenting the practices of your own community.

Do You See What I See: Optics and Its Implication on Display and Documentation of Art
Dr. Maricor Soriano
February 17 2007, 2-4 pm
Dr. Maricor Soriano of the National Institute of Physics of UP Diliman will talk about studies in optics, in particular as it impacts on perception of texture, light and color. One’s perception, especially of paintings are affected by the amount of light in the space, the angle of reflection, etc. The possibility of enhancing viewer’s enjoyment of the art and proper documentation of paintings are opened up by the study.

Preserving Digital Files and Digital Art
March 10 2007, 2-4 pm
As more and more information comes in digital form, the traditional methods of preserving these information have to be re-thought. In the same way, because of the presence of technology, art has been re-thought. The talk will explore the world of digital files and digital art and the means of preserving these.

All lectures are held at the Lopez Memorial Museum. Fee of Php 120.00 per lecture. If one reserves for all four lectures two (2) weeks in advance, one will pay only a total of Php400.00. A certificate of attendance will be given to those who attended all four lectures. For more information, call 6312417.

Galleria Duemila invites you to

Artist Talk

by
Maria Cruz
9 November 2006, 2 - 4 PM

Maria Cruz is a leading Filipino-Australian contemporary visual artist; she completed Fine Arts degree at the University of Sto Tomas then moved to Australia where she pursued further studies in painting at East Sydney Tech and Sydney College of the Arts. She also attended the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf, Germany.

She has been exhibited widely that includes in the Word Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and participated in the Biennale of Sydney Satellite exhibition. Her numerous awards and residencies, includes the PS1 International Studio Program in New York (2000-01), Karl Hoffer Gesselschaft, International Studio in Berlin, 2005. She currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia.

Maria is in the country and one of the exhibiting artists at Galleria Duemila this month. She is giving a talk about her art practice and her current exhibition “Coins” an installation of coin imprints and word paintings and drawings.

For seat reservation call Mimi Santos (632) 8339815 or 831-9990 or email us at duemila@mydestiny.net; Galleria Duemila is located at 210 Loring Street, Pasay City.

PRESS RELEASE
Stories About Preserving Cultural Heritage
The Albums of Jose Honorato Lozano with Ms Sonia Ner

Date: October 14, 2006 Saturday 2—4pm
Fee: Php 50.00 for Museum Foundation members
Php 100.00 for non-members
Contact: Ms Fanny San Pedro/Ms Joy Victoria at 6312417
Ms Elvie Magpayo at 4042685

The Lopez Memorial Museum, in cooperation with Museum Foundation of the Philippines, presents the ninth in the series Stories About Preserving Cultural Heritage on October 14, 2006, 2—4pm at the Lopez Library. The focus is on Jose Honorato Lozano (1821-1885), the foremost visual chronicler of 19th century Philippines and his albums. Albums are sheets of paper with drawings in graphite or pen-and-ink sketches or watercolors bound together and serving as souvenirs or catalogs or illustrations to reports. Among the albums are the Ayala Album, the Nyssens-Flebus album and the Broken album. There is also the Gervasio Gironella Album in the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. Some distinctive features of the albums include architectural and landscape details and images of the natural riches of the Philippines.

The association of Lozano with letras y figuras as well as the distinctions and nuances which earlier studies have failed to see have resulted in the misattribution of the albums. To discuss this and other issues that cropped up the course of the albums’ discovery – attribution or authentication, repatriation, dividing the albums, etc. is Ms Sonia Ner, former academician, art manager, director of Ayala Museum and executive director of Asia Society Philippines who has conceptualized and edited Jose Honorato Lozano, Filipinas 1847 and co-authored Album de las Islas Filipinas which featured two of Lozano’s albums.

The Lopez Memorial Museum is at the ground floor, Benpres Building, Exchange Road corner Meralco Avenue, Pasig City. Museum days and hours are Mondays—Saturdays, 8am—5pm, except holidays. Email: pezseum@kyinet.net for details.

The Museum Foundation of the Philippines is a non-stock, non-profit, membership and volunteer organization dedicated to developing greater awareness and appreciation of our country’s rich artistic and cultural heritage in partnership with the National Museum and its network. We raise awareness and appreciation by:

• Conducting lectures on art, history and culture
• Organizing cultural study tours
• Creating training programs on how to use the museum as a tool of instruction
• Providing minor financial assistance for activities related to education, exhibition, publications and collection management
• Forming partnerships with organizations with similar missions

For more information and reservations, please contact Patricia Limon or Elvie Magpayo at the Museum Foundation office at 404.2685 or Ms Fanny San Pedro/Ms Joy Victoria at 6312417.