Cesare & The Electric Underground Collective @ Mag:net Cafe

CESARE @ MAG: NET CAFE BONIFACIO HIGH STREET

"Cesare & The Electric Underground Collective" performs live for the first time at Mag:net Cafe Bonifacio High Street on Monday, October 29 at 8.00 P.M.

Headlined by 2007 Araw Ng Maynila Awardee Cesare A.X. Syjuco -- along with his equally celebrated daughters Maxine and Trix Syjuco -- the collective is comprised of progressive poets, musicians and performance artists rarely seen on the local café and club circuit, but who have nevertheless reaped much attention and critical acclaim for their innovative work with spoken word and performed poetry. http://www.cesaresyjuco.com

Along with the famed Syjucos, performers for the evening will include Alfred Yuson, Eghai Roxas, Mannet Villariba, Bob Balingit, Yanna Acosta and Project Ganymede, Danny Sillada, Frank Rivera, Mitch Garcia & Ian Madrigal, Ria Munoz, Nina Beltran, Mat, J.P., Bleeding Boy Noise Orchestra with Troll del Castillo, Lirio Salvador and Elemento, Parking in Mogadishu , and The Blame, among others.

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Cesare A.X. Syjuco | The Sound of 2 Feet Clapping Exhibit | F*ART Gallery

You are invited to
an opening exhibit of
Cesare A.X. Syjuco
"The sound of 2 feet clapping"
on Saturday, August 25, 8 pm
at Fashion Art (F*ART) gallery
24 K-D cor. K-1st, Kamuning, Quezon City

About the Artist:
Cesare A.X. Syjuco is undoubtedly the most acclaimed Filipino multi-media artist of our time, and is likewise a prizewinning painter, poet, composer and art critic of international stature. Once widely regarded as "the Golden Boy of Philippine Art", his remarkably varied distinctions have included the prestigious TOYM (Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines) Award for Art & Culture Advancement; the Gerry Roxas Foundation Presidential Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts; the Gawad CCP Sa Sining Biswal from the Cultural Center of the Philippines; the AAP Grand Prize and Gold Medal for Painting from the Art Association of the Philippines; the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature in English Poetry; the UNESCO Paris Gold Medals for Photography and Design; the CMMA Outstanding Filipino Communicator Citation from The Catholic Mass Media Awards; and the first Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Award for Art Criticism, among many others - all before the age of 40.
Cesare’s sudden and mysterious disappearance in 1992 – at the height of his tumultuous and often controversial art career – transformed him, in the words of one writer, “from the country’s most visible art renegade.. into something even larger than life.. a cult figure of legend among his peers”. But it is largely for his groundbreaking experimental works in “visual-literary transmedia” that his reputation as a world-class Filipino artist endures to this day.

(Text: Eliseo “Spike” Madriaga)

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Homonyms of Recent History @ Ricco-Renzo Galleries

"Homonyms of Recent History"
Cesare A.X. Syjuco
Ricco-Renzo Galleries (LRI Business Plaza)
March 22, 2007 to April 30, 2007

Arts Iconoclast Cesare A.X. Syjuco recently opened his latest exhibition. Curated by Jean Marie Syjuco, with late-evening poetry performances.

Cesare A.X. Syjuco, a recipient of the TOYM, has won praises for his new experimental hybrid works which fuse literature and the visual arts. Alfred Yuson has called him the Radical Renaissance Man.

In a recent review, Angelo V. Suarez noted that Cesare A.X. Syjuco accomplishes this difficult juggling of disciplines. Viewers cannot escape the ensuing delectation. They are struck between the eyes, as it were. And this is a characteristic of Cesare's avant-gardism. He disposes with your neutrality, luring you to make a stand where otherwise you would be just an observer. Cesare A.X. Syjuco's picture-words are meant to disarm you, to jar you into the realization that there is much more than the usual literalness that resides in them.

Cesare A.X. Syjuco's "Homonyms of Recent History" is currently on view at the Ricco-Renzo Galleries (LRI Business Plaza).

For more details on "Homonyms of Recent History" by Cesare A.X. Syjuco at the
Ricco-Renzo Galleries, please call 898-2542.

Ricco-Renzo Galleries is located at LRI Business Plaza Ground Level, 210 Nicanor Garcia Street (Reposo), Bel-Air II, Makati City.

"Homonyms of Recent History" runs from March 22, 2007 to April 30, 2007.

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