"My Country" Exhibit Opens @ Ateneo Art Gallery

"MY COUNTRY: ABSTRACT INTERPRETATIONS OF THE
AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE"
OPENS AT THE ATENEO ART GALLERY
THIS JUNE

"My Country: Abstract Interpretations of the
Australian Landscape," a visiting exhibition from the
collection of the La Trobe University Art Museum in
Melbourne, Australia, opens at the Ateneo Art Gallery
with a reception on 19 June 2007, Tuesday, at 5:30 pm.
The exhibition forms part of the 2006-09 Ateneo-La
Trobe Art Linkage, and is part of the Ateneo Art
Gallery's Engage program where works of significant
artists from overseas are shown in the museum.

"My Country" at the Ateneo Art Gallery
shows alternatives to typical landscape
painting by bringing together artists who aim to
capture the essence of the Australian landscape and
respond to their environment through abstraction. The
exhibition, arguably the most important collection of
Australian visual art to be shown in the Philippines
to date, includes the work of Australian modernist
master Fred Williams, and more contemporary
practitioners such as Judy Holding, as well as leading
Indigenous artists like Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula. The
exhibition offers a concise overview of a continuing
genre central to Australian art, and furthermore,
presents uniquely different views, interpretations and
processes towards landscape painting.

Preceding the reception on 19 June is an ArtSpeak
lecture at 4:00 pm by "My Country" exhibition curator
and Managing Curator of La Trobe University Art
Museum, Vince Alessi. Another ArtSpeak lecture on
understanding abstract art will be held on 18 July
2007 at 4:30 pm.

"My Country" runs at the Ateneo Art Gallery from 13
June to 21 July 2007. The exhibition is supported by
the Australian Commonwealth through the
Cultural Relations Discretionary Grant Program of the
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

The Ateneo Art Gallery is open Mondays to Fridays,
8:00 am to 12:00 pm and 1:00 to 5:00 pm, and
Saturdays, 8:00 am to 12:00 pm. Admission is free.
For further inquiries on the "My Country" exhibition
at the Ateneo Art Gallery, please contact Joel de Leon,
at 426-6488 or at jdeleon@ateneo. edu or
visit http://gallery. ateneo.edu.

Clarissa Chikiamco
Project Coordinator
Ateneo Art Gallery
Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights, Quezon City 1108
Tel (+632) 426-6001 ext. 4160
DL (+632) 426-6488
Fax (+632) 426-6488