Learn about Life-Like Figure Sculpting on June 23, 10 a.m., at the Fully Booked - Bonifacio High Street.

This workshop teaches the fundamentals on sculpting faces, hands, feets, and other details with the use of polymer clay.

It will be spearheaded by Nathan Andrew, who is a distiguished member of the Philippine Polymer Guild.

For reservations, email mixedmedia_art@hotmail.com or call (0933) 394-9771.

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Art Talk : June 20 @ 3-5pm
Entrance Fee allows access to the forum and ongoing exhibitions
The public is invited to come early to view Cahen’s video and listen to his sound works

The Metropolitan Museum of Manila in collaboration with the French Embassy in Manila organizes an open-forum with French video artist Robert Cahen. His videos have captured different landscapes over four continents in his 42-year long practice. It is the artist’s first visit to the country with a project of creating a new film. Contemporary Filipino artists from different practices will be invited to come together and discuss with him Concrete Music, how it has influenced art forms as diverse as video, installation, dance and poetry.

Cahen shared the environment of electro-acoustic research in the late 50s into the early 70s with Filipino avant-garde composer Dr. Jose Maceda.The Philippine Contemporary, a newly inaugurated permanent exhibition at the Met Museum featuring 20th century and contemporary art, represents Dr. Maceda’s work in the 70s and considers his composition Ugnayan an important oeuvre of that tumultuous yet highly fertile period of creation in the Philippine art scene (1965-1983).

Robert Cahen: Manila Junction will be an artists’ talk proposing to connect the confluent art practices in France and the Philippines from the 70s into the present.

Background on Robert Cahen:

Born 1945 in Valence, France.
Studied under Pierre Schaeffer at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris.
1969 -1971: received initial training in composition with the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), eventually becoming an active composer for the group. Whilst working as a composer, he was drawn towards visual images and video to which he applied the experimental techniques and language of the school of concrete music.

1972: Invitation to travel, first video work with manipulation of image
1983: Just enough time,
1992: Villa Medicis Hors les Murs award
1995: permanent video installation in Lille (EURALILLE, France)
1997: first exhibition of video installations in Alsace, France
2010: major retrospective of his films and videos at Le Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

The Metropolitan Museum of Manila
Bangko Sentraln ng Pilipinas Complex, Roxas Blvd. Malate-Manila
Open: Mondays thru Saturdays, 10AM till 5:30PM
Museum Entrance: 100 Php
Inquiries: info@metmuseum.ph or call 708-7829

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JUNE 20, 2013 / 6PM
(Free Entrance Before 9PM)

at the Pocket Universe Art Collective
2nd floor, saGuijo Cafe + Bar Events, 7612 Guijo St., San Antonio Village, Makati City

with Live Performances by
Turbo Goth | Nameless Heroes | Fherrond
A Series Of Fractions | Holding on

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This June 20 artist Francisco M. Verano unveils his latest abstract works on canvas along with older sculptures and paintings dating back to 1959. As the title overtly suggests, "Fragmentos" is a collection of pieces that serve as dynamic snippets of the artist's oeuvre thus far.

Francisco Verano has been ¬¬well known for his figurative landscape paintings and sculptures made of unconventional and indigenous materials (i.e. Bamboo Fugue Series now housed at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and at the National Commission on Culture and the Arts, House on Stilts Series of vMeme Contemporary Art Gallery Collection, et cetera). Verano’s abstract paintings, which mostly are yet to be seen in public, have been at large a ''major constant" in his progression of works as an artist and comprise a big portion of his body of work. A lot of his sculptures interestingly appear to have picked up from these creations or vice versa, which stand to prove how he is involved in exploring various artistic media against the ever changing social backdrops.

Expansive in its coverage, “Fragmentos” reveals trove of largely unseen and unexamined works which serves as a prelude to a more in-depth art historical catalogue of Verano's works as it continually evolves. The exhibit is also an invitation to take part in an ever evolving organic work in progress of cataloguing an expansive body of work as well as present contemporary works charged with years of practice in Philippine art. The exhibit unveils 30 paintings and 9 sculptures alongside his very first recognized sculpture entitled Stone Idol which won him Art Association of the Philippines’ First Prize in Sculpture in 1959. Stone Idol is the groundbreaking fragment that jumpstarts the art historical visual ensemble in "Fragmentos". The ensemble showcases his ingenious mastery of utilizing ordinary materials in the creation of artistic pieces where he is very much at the core of eliciting emotions using line, color, texture and space. Included also in the exhibit is a video that documents the artistic process and research work leading into the creation of the exhibit.

In his paintings, we could gloss over how Verano wields with the intensity of the blue palette moving on to the richness of warm colors from ochre to yellow and burnt sienna receding into monotone shades of brown and gray. The process of slowly discarding the intensity of hues can be likened to the movement of time, or seasons even, if one is to find the nuances of his landscape paintings transported into his abstractions. In one breath we are somewhat called to sense the coolness of the sky and water and then warmth of the earth and trees after which we are called into the vagueness and stillness of dawn or dusk. Quoting Kirk Varnedoe in ‘Pictures of Nothing’, "The less there is to look at, the more you have to look, the more you have to be in the picture.”

Francisco M. Verano (b. 1937) graduated with a degree in Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. A visual artist who has explored different media in painting and sculpture, Verano has exhibited extensively both locally and abroad. His works have become part of private and institutional collections. He has received several awards; among them: First Prize in Sculpture, given by the Art Association of the Philippines (1959) and Best Landscape Award in the 24th AAP Annual Art Competition (1971). He has also worked as an advertising professional since his graduation in 1962. He has helmed the Creative Arts/Marketing Communications department of several reputable companies, including Planter’s Products, Inc. (1977-1980); Mobil Awards for Philippine Art, Mobil Oil Philippines (1980-1981); and in 1991, he set-up his own advertising and public relations company. He has likewise received recognition in the field of advertising, winning the Award for Excellence in Advertising Art in the First Philippine Advertising Congress in 1969. He was President of the UP College of Fine Arts Alumni Foundation (1983-1991) and was President of the Saturday Group in 2003.

The exhibition is guest curated by Sheryll Torres and CreatingSPACE Inc. under its Relay Program. "Fragmentos" will run from June 20 - July 26, 2013 at vMeme Contemporary Art Gallery 2-C Second Floor CK Bldg. No. 61 Visayas Avenue Vasra, 1100 Quezon City, Philippines.

For inquiries please contact Avie Felix at 964-5951 / 975-0052 / 09175685939
www.vmemecontemporary.com
www.franciscoverano.com.

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