Edgar Talusan Fernandez
Manny Garibay
Alfredo Esquillo
Noel Soler Quizon
Karen O Flores
Jose Tence Ruiz
Boy Dominguez
Mideo Cruz, Mark Salvatus,
Buen Calubayan
Jay Pacena
Lav Diaz
Jim Libiran
Don Salubayba
Kirby Roxas
curated by Jose Tence Ruiz.
Ateneo Art Gallery
Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University,
Loyola Heights , Quezon City
26 February to 22 May 2008
Opening Cocktails 26 February 2008 6.30 pm
TuTOK Kargado:
February for Filipinos has, of recent, meant more than apartelle
valentines: February celebrates Art practice as well as people's
participation in change, as embodied by EDSA 1986. TuTOK KARGADO at
the Ateneo Art Gallery, which opens on February 26, partakes of all
these. It embraces a fervid romance for nation and identity, using
visual arts bent towards the populist as the engine of change,
self-recognition and self-acceptance. It joins an artistic project
with roots as deep as Tomas Pinpin, Damian Domingo and Juan Luna, and
includes those whose works in the 70s led to KAISAHAN's Social
Realism. Add to this artists from the nationalistic Hiraya Gallery,
Salingpusa, Sanggawa, Ugat Lahi, Anino Shadowplay Collective, New
World Disorder, Anting-Anting and even the Mandaya tribe of Davao
Oriental. It also showcases of fresh batch of 21st century players
addressing the anxious landscape of a millenium yet to unfold.
TuTOK KARGADO is an agitated dialogue between a post-modern
community and the high modern collection of the Ateneo Art Gallery.
KARGADO examines nationhood, modernism, critical self-recognition,
political complexity, and proposes that art practice comes with an
inseparable charge, a context, an implication that cannot be distilled
away into absolute form but has to be grafted and manifest by and in
such form to fully address the era it came from. The anxieties of
Y2k08 – homogenizing globalisation, climate change, hegemony and
extremism have prodded artists to either dissect contemporaneity or
provide perishable cocoons of indifference. TuTOK KARGADO chooses
dissection.
This dissection becomes engaging when shaped as visual discourse
between masters such as Arturo Luz, Vicente Manansala, J. Elizalde
Navarro, Roberto Chabet, Antonio Austria, Brenda Fajardo, Lazaro
Soriano, among others, and current practitioners such as Edgar Talusan
Fernandez, Manny Garibay, Alfredo Esquillo, Noel Soler Quizon, Karen O
Flores, Jose Tence Ruiz, Boy Dominguez, Mideo Cruz, Mark Salvatus,
Buen Calubayan, Jay Pacena, Lav Diaz, Jim Libiran, Don Salubayba and
Kirby Roxas. This discourse encompasses painting, installation and
video and is curated by Jose Tence Ruiz.
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