Please confirm with the Exhibition and Education Programs Department at least 2 days before the activity date.
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Usapang Sining
Panayam sa Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan ( see poster )
Lecture fee: (Undergraduate student - Php250 , Guests - Php500)
G. Eduardo Mutuc
Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan (2005)
Sa pagtatapos ng Buwan ng Sining, inaanyayahan ng Metropolitan Museum of Manila ang lahat sa USAPANG SINING, isang pakikipanayam kay G. Eduardo Mutuc, na tumanggap ng pagkilala ng GAWAD SA MANLILIKHA NG BAYAN noong 2005.
Ang kanyang husay sa larangan ng gawang-metal o metalworks ay nagpapakita ng pagkadalubhasa dala ng taon ng karanasan at ang patuloy na pagtuklas ng mga inobasyon sa kanyang sining.
Ang kanyang mga likha ay nagpapalamuti sa maraming simbahan sa buong bansa. Taglay ng kanyang mga likha ang mga relihiyosong representasyon at paglalarawan na siya naming tinutuklas ng eksibisyong IKON, Iconography na kasalukuyang nakatanghal sa Museo.
Ito ay eksibisyong tumutuklas sa mga simbolo at iba pang banal na paglalarawan na makikita sa mga Russian Icons mula sa koleksiyon ng PCGG at mula sa mga piling relihiyosong pinta mula sa ika-18 at ika-19 na siglo mula naman sa koleksiyon ng Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
Ilalahad ni G. Mutuc ang kanyang karanasan bilang isang manlilikhang-sining kasabay ng pagpapakita ng mga pangunahing pamamaraan sa pagbuo ng isang likhang sining sa metal.
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December 10, 2011 - 2:00pm
Etched by Acid x 100
Lecture-Demo on Printmaking
Entrance fee: Php100
Ambie Abaño talks on the art of printmaking with particular focus on international practice, using Picasso's Suite Vollard as an example. Ambie will explain the intaglio technique used by Picasso in the creation of the collection.
The lecture will be followed by a demonstration of the process to be conducted by Benjamin Torrado Cabrera and Angelo Magno.
Ms. Ambie Abaño
President - Philippine Association of Printmakers Inc.
Faculty - University of the Philippines - College of Fine Arts
As an Architect, Ambie Abaño abandoned the practice in favor of being a visual artist which, to her, is an inherent responsiveness to what she considers a calling. From being a painter, her shifting to printmaking brought her to a passionate encounter with and exploration of the medium which led to the creation of portraits and figures in sculptures, mixed media works and installations, always originating from traditional printmaking techniques. Rather than holding an expression captive, her portraits insists upon the phenomena on which the moment the person comes forth as an individual. (Siddharta Perez)
Among her achievements include the Grand Prize in the Painting Category in the Art Association of the Philippines Open Art Competition in 1987 and the Grand Prize in the Philippine Art Awards in 2006. She is the first recipient of the Alliance Française de Manille - Philippine Artist Residency Program which brought her to Paris for a three-month residency for further training in color viscosity and various intaglio techniques at Atelier La Taille Douce.. She is also a grantee of the Asian Cultural Council for a six-month artist's residency in New York where she will train in lithography at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in 2012.
Abaño is presently President of the Philippine Association of Printmakers, Inc. and a faculty member at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts where she is pursuing her Masters in Fine Arts Degree. She constantly conduct printmaking workshops along with her colleagues in PAP and is actively involved in organizing art related projects, particularly projects that that advocate the promotion of printmaking in the Philippines.
Museum admission fee includes participation to the lecture-demo. To reserve a slot please contact 708-7829 or 708-7827.
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December 03, 2011 - 2:00pm
Meet Spanish Photographer Txema Salvans
A Mini-Workshop on Photography
Admission is Free
Considered as one of the leading contemporary Spanish photographers, Txema Salvans (Barcelona, 1971) will give a mini-workshop on photography wherein he will showcase his own photographs and the ideas behind him. Salvans received the Best Spanish Photography Book Award for Nice To Meet You during the 2005 PhotoEspana Awards, a volume filled with snapshots of his travels along the Mediterranean coast. Documenting Spanish popular culture: the summer holidays, urban speculation, consumerism and the new ways of leisure.
Txema Salvans is one of the 15 photographers featured in the exhibit Photo By Photo - A Portrait of Spain.
The exhibit will run until January 15, 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila.
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August 19, 2011 - 9:00am
JAPAN (Kingdom of Characters) Lecture Series Part 3
History and Context of Characters
Entrance fee: Php100
While the exhibit focuses of the emergence of characters in modern Japanese history, this talk will attempt to trace the history of how Japanese people became interested in characters. Furthermore, the lecture will elaborate on the historical contexts of Japanese people's attraction to said characters.
Dr. Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua
Acting Director
Japanese Studies Program
Ateneo de Manila University
He is a graduate of A.B. Interdisciplinary Studies (Psychology/History track) from the Ateneo de Manila University. He finished his Masters in Japanese Studies from the National University of Singapore with a thesis on Komik Strips during the Japanese Occupation Period in the Philippines. He took his Doctorate in Social Science from Hitotsubashi University last 2010 with his dissertation on How Foreigners are represented in Children's Magazines during Showa period Japan (1930's - 1950's). He is currently an Assistant Professor of the History Department and Acting Director of the Japanese Studies Program of the Ateneo de Manila University.
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August 12, 2011 - 2:00pm
JAPAN (Kingdom of Characters) Lecture Series Part 2
Visual Syntagma of Japan's Manga
Entrance fee: Php100
This talk will be a discussion on the visual structure of Japanese Manga and attempts to discuss it's visual narrative construct in visual semantics, syntax and pragmatics. History, characters, themes and narrative patterns are also examined.
Prof. Romanlito S. Austria
College of Fine Arts
University of the Philippines
Prof. Austria is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Visual Communication and Design at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts where he also finished Fine Arts major in Visual Communication. He received scholarship grants from the Japanese Government Monbusho Ministry of Education; as a research student at the Faculty of Visual Communication and Design in 1996 and as a delegate to the Intensive Japanese Language Course for International Students in 1995 at the Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. He was also a participant of TENRANKAI, an art exhibition of former Filipino Japanese Monbusho scholars held at the GSIS museum. In 2009 he was granted the Ignacio Villamor Professorial Chair.
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July 29, 2011 - 2:00pm
JAPAN (Kingdom of Characters) Lecture Series Part 1
Monuments & Mascots: The Aesthetics of Kawaiisa (Cuteness) in Japanese Culture
Entrance fee: Php100
This lecture attempts to surface the cultural, economic and political roots of the Japanese interest and obsession with objects perceived as "cute". It will also discuss the presence of manga and anime characters as an indication of Japan being composed of cultures rather than culture.
Prof. Tito Genova Valiente
Japanese Studies
Ateneo de Manila University
Prof. Valiente is a faculty member of the Ateneo de Manila University teaching Japanese Cinema and Japanese Arts under the Japanese Studies Program. He was the recipient of the Sumitomo Foundation Research Grant for his research entitled Transnationalization, Acculturation and Negotiation: A Review of the Histories of Collaboration Between Japanese and Filipino Artists and the Creation of Art and Cultural Spaces From 2003-2008. He was co-editor for the book Transnationalizing Culture of Japan in Asia. Dramas, Musics , Arts and Agencies launched in 2009 for the Second International Conference of the Japanese Studies Association in Southeast Asia. He co-authored the study Beyond Geographies: Okinawan Culture and Identities in the Japanese State and Other Spaces and is presently working with Japanese anthropologist Dr. Hiroko Nagai as co-editor for the book Memories, Monuments and Media: Representations of Conflicts and Creation of Histories in Asia.
Prof. Valiente is also the resident Art and Media Critic of Business Mirror.
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