CCP-VAMD Calendar of Events: MARCH to APRIL 2017

EXHIBITIONS:

Last Full Show, exhibit view at the Bulwagang Juan Luna.

Until 5 March
Last Full Show
Danilo Dalena Retrospective
Visual arts, exhibit, painting, sculpture, installation, video
Last Full Show takes off from where the larger public was last served the broadest sweep of
Danilo Dalenas body of work in his 1990 survey exhibition also at the Cultural Center of the
Philippines. Fuelled by his virtual absence on the gallery circuit for over 25 years, the
perception that Dalena had hibernated from art all those years is dispelled as LFS reveals
suites of drawings and paintings only recently done even as the artist has been slowed by
several health crises. Characteristic of Dalenas signature affinity with the scatological and
repellant, what could be of particular interest is his yet unfinished series of images referencing
unseemly acts and antics in seedy movie houses. While loosely taking on the structure of
cinema with establishing sequences, transitions, freeze frames, and denouements, LFS is
posited as a grand unfolding rather than definitive account. Dalena himself insists that the
wordplay be taken in the spirit of the elaborately risqu closing numbers of his famed
Alibangbang (bar) series and the final all-star game of the now moribund Jai Alai where the
performance goes full throttle and the one-upmanship is cutthroat and in your face.
Closing reception: 4 March, 4pm
Bulwagang Juan Luna (Main Gallery), Pasilyo Guillermo Tolentino (3F Hallway Gallery),
Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo (Small Gallery), Pasilyo Victorio Edades (4F Hallway
Gallery) and 4F Atrium
FREE
ALBANO RAYMUNDO, Happy Birthday Suite 5, 1981, acrylic on paper mounted on wood, 123 x 106 cm.
Collection of the Cultural Center of the Philippines .

Until May 7
OF EMPTINESS AND OVER-ABUNDANCE OF PRESENCE
Selections from the CCP Visual Arts Collection
Curated by Arianna Z. Mercado
Visual arts, exhibit, painting
Of Emptiness and of Over-abundance of Presence is a survey of various gurative and
abstract works from the Visual Arts Collection of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. It is a
deconstruction of presence and absence, missing and found, ebb and owa ux of coming
and of going. This curated endeavor is meant to work as a dialogue between the works and the
viewer, to engage visitors to make inferences and connections on how each work is situated as
a part of a whole. The exhibit aims to help students and new museum visitors learn how to
look at and appreciate modernist, especially abstract works, by prompting questions to reect
upon while looking at the pieces as contextualized in a curated show.
Bulwagang Carlos V. Francisco (Little Theater Lobby)
Free
AUGGIE FONTANILLA, Asal aso, Ink on paper, 2015.

22 March to 23 April
Kristo Y Kristos
Auggie Fontanilla
Visual arts, exhibit, painting, illustration, collage, mixed media, installation
The central theme of the exhibit revolves around the concept of the image of Christ as
portrayed by the residents of Manila. The artist explores his concept by immersing in the
community of artisans, fanatics and devotees who themselves are enthralled in its symbolic
nature. Quiapo, Manila will be the focal point of the immersion due to its long and rich
history with the Black Nazarene. Residents of the area will be consulted in order to gain
insight on their beliefs and crafts. Fontanillas learning will be translated into works inspired
by the Christs of the streets (mga kristo ng lansangan). Furthering the idea, the exhibit
aims to illustrate the contrast between the different depictions of Christ in Manila, that that
despite having metaphorical similarity, their natures could not be more distant.
Opening reception: 22 March, 6pm
Artist talk: 7 April, 4pm
Pasilyo Victorio Edades (4F Hallway Gallery)
FREE
Image courtesy of Russ Ligtas.

28 March to 30 April
Another World
Russ Ligtas
Visual arts, exhibit, painting, sculpture, installation, video
A process that goes back to his formative years, the phantom insistence of assembling objects
that manifest an alternate reality has been consistently apparent in Russ Ligtas
practicefrom manipulating the three-dimensional platform that was ATCO, an imitation of
the more ubiquitous and expensive LEGO, to the manifestation of fantastical visions via the
two-dimensional drawing and painting, onward to the fashioning of devices that demonstrate
the atmospheres of his performance work, and finally, the present nostalgia towards the
familiar environs of toys and iconographythe construction of artifacts based on an
accumulated visual language of mythologies from his cultural and religious origins. Ligtas
performances, which have become the prime synthesizer of his creative energies now recede
to a level closer to his otherwise subdued channels in this exhibition format, giving time and
space for the more tangible and material creations, proofs of the world of ones isolation,
ironically inhabited by all.
Opening reception: 28 March, 6pm
Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo (Small Gallery) and 4th floor Atrium
FREE
CESAR LEGASPI, Games for Three, 1972, Oil on wood, 124 x 195.2 cm, Collection of the Cultural Center of the
Philippines.

2 April to 4 June
Roots, Routes, and Open Engagements
National Artist Cesar Legaspi Centennial Exhibition
Visual arts, exhibit, painting, installation, video
This launching exhibit of National Artist Cesar Legaspis birth centenary will be pegged on
the artists public art projects and state commissions including those from the collections of
the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the National Museum
of the Philippines, the Development Academy of the Philippines, and the kilometer markers
done for the Bataan Death March. With some works no longer being extant such as Legaspis
contribution to the Kulay Anyo ng Lahi mural project this exhibition will solicit the
interventions of younger generations of artists to possibly effect a conversation between those
who were caught up in the polarities of affinities between creative agents who either chose to
distantiate themselves, or were effectively positioned beyond the radar of art spaces activated
by the state during martial law.
Opening reception: 2 April, 6pm
Bulwagang Juan Luna (Main Gallery), Pasilyo Guillermo Tolentino (3F Hallway Gallery),
and Pasilyo Vicente Manansala (2F Hallway Gallery)
FREE

Artworks from the CCP Visual Arts Collection may also be viewed at the following
exhibitions:

Until March 2017

Philippine Contemporary Art: To Scale the Past and the Possible
Upper Galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Manila

Until May 2017

Reflections: the AAG in Review

Ateneo Art Gallery, Ateneo de Manila University

Until November 2017
Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast Asia, Europe and Beyond
Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery, National Gallery Singapore

Until August 2018

Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia Since the 19 th Century
UOB Southeast Asia Gallery, National Gallery Singapore