It’s Art Fair season again! Time to view art and be like flies on the wall, catching the best quotes from the fairgoers [READ: Overheard at Art Fair 2020: “I want to either go home or get drunk here.”]. It’s practically the local art industry’s flagship event, with the Philippine art scene concentrated into five floors of The Link carpark for four days.
Here are the most eye-catching and buzz-worthy works we saw at the trade show.
Jellyfish Kisses’ Sewing Club
Kristoffer Ardeña’s Basahan
Sol Lewitt
Giatay
As we mentioned previously, one of most exciting newcomers to Art Fair are Visayan collectives. One of these is Giatay, a group exhibit by an all-Bisaya team of artists curated by Kaloy Olivades, Jun Sabayton and Jan Sunday. Giatay, if you didn’t know, is an expletive used much in the same way Tagalog people use “putangina,” that literally translates to “to be livered.”
Gabriel Barredo’s Opera – Screaming Faces
Silverlens is exhibiting the late Gabriel Barredo’s yellow resin work, “Opera-Screaming Faces.” Barredo, who passed away last month, was known for his kinetic sculptures, and “Opera” features a multitude of faces endlessly screaming. A mood.
Istorya conTEXT: Amon Ni
SEX
Tin-aw Art Gallery is holding a group exhibition with Julie Lluch, Faye Abantao, Leo Abaya, Leeroy New among others, on sex. “We asked 15 artists featured in the Tin-aw show to add to the phrase “Sex is…” Some answers were coy, some profound, all were interesting.” Notable pieces include Ambie Abano’s vulva-shaped wooden wall clock framed with copper nails.
Taiyo Kimura’s “untitled (stool for guard)”
Works by Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan
Living Things artists from our December 2019 Southern Living issue Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan are being presented by Singaporean Yavuz Gallery. The works shown include their signature cardboard houses and boats, as well as wings made out of scythes.
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