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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Arte + Fe Caceres (Letter from our curator Ms. Maria Tarruella)

Dear Art+Faith Artists,

I´m happy to tell you that the opening this week of the Art+Faith exhibition in Caceres has been an amazing success!! we had so many people that they were crowding at the entrance! over 200 people came, and several politicians representing the City Council, governors and cultural attachés. As you can imagine the press also showed interest - I spoke in 5 radios that same day! I´m attaching beneath several links from newspapers and press agencies that covered the opening of the exhibition.



The Caceres cultural department did another catalogue of the show- which is good quality, but I must admit, I prefer the one done for the Madrid show... I will send you a catalogue as soon as I can, as I am now planning the next show in Trujillo and after that to the beautiful city of Merida! The city mayor of Merida, came to the opening as was very impressed with the works and has asked for Art+Faith to be taken there!

The show in Caceres, due to its success, is going to stay there longer, until the 17th of February and then on the 20th I will be hanging in Trujillo and the opening will be on the 22nd. I still don´t have the exact dates on how long it wil be in Trujillo before it is taken to Merida, but I´ll let you know as soon as I know.



I´m attaching a couple of pictures on how the show looks so that get an idea of the wonderful space and how the works breeth so freely! if you can´t see your work let me know and I´ll send you another image where you can appreciate it. I managed to hang ALL the works!! Also, there was a dark room where David Lopez did an incredible installation, which was like a floating basin in space filled with water and a projection of his Bath piece over it, representing baptism; smoke and light emerged from beneath, like a space-ship launched to God. It is spectacular! and we were also very lucky to have him come to Caceres, directly from Rome, and give a conference on the meaning art and Faith; on being a contemporany artist who is also a committed christian. It was breath-taking... Thank you David!



I thank the Lord for your work and how it´s acting on its own proclaiming His name, touching hearts and transforming souls as instruments of His Love. Thank you for your support and lets keep this project in prayer so that Art+Faith moves according to His will, advancing and growing for His sake, so that our art may be a bridge to Faith, to Love and to Trust in the Lord.

May God continue to bless your path!

yours in prayer

Maria



http://www.avuelapluma.es/noticia/sala-brocense-acoge-muestra-arte-contemporaneo-internacional

http://www.que.es/caceres/201201242048-sala-brocense-acoge-exposicion-transmite-epi.html


http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=1077944

http://www.agenciasic.es/2012/01/18/arte-fe-la-exposicion-en-caceres-que-une-a-todos-los-cristianos/

http://www.dip-caceres.es/actualidad/_detalles.html?uid=f2e5cb2c-45c7-11e1-83d7-d7e2fcb9b10d

http://www.extremadura.com/turismo/llega_a_la_sala_de_arte_el_brocense_arte_fe_una_muestra_de_arte_contemporaneo_internacional

http://www.europapress.es/cultura/noticia-sala-brocense-acoge-exposicion-transmite-fe-siempre-idioma-hoy-20120124204847.html

http://www.gentedigital.es/caceres/noticia/763144/la-sala-el-brocense-acoge-una-exposicion-que-transmite-la-fe-de-siempre-pero-con-el-idioma-de-hoy/

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Friday, December 02, 2011

Of Course, I Could Be Wrong...: TIME IN A BOTTLE

Of Course, I Could Be Wrong...: TIME IN A BOTTLE

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Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Testimony of What Remains

AM+DG
X-Tray Film on Light Box, Dried Flowers coated with Polyresin in Empty Bottles
Size: Variable, 2011

This installation, which is mainly composed of X-tray film of the flower arrangement and dried flowers coated with polyresin in empty bottles explores the idea of mortality and questions what truly remains immortally.


Testimony of What Remains, Installation View


Testimony of What Remains, Detail View 1



Testimony of What Remains, Detail View 2



Testimony of What Remains, Detail View 4


Testimony of What Remains, Detail View 5

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Weekend of art overload


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2:42 pm | Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

With the end of the semester-long Sinekultura film education series, a sampling of classic and contemporary art films screened regularly at the College of Architecture and Fine Arts theater of the University of San Carlos, comes another treat for Cebuano film buffs: the 14th Cineuropa Film Festival held since Friday and until tonight at the Ayala Center Onstage theater.

Cineuropa is one of the longest-running film festivals in the country today and we are lucky to have the Arts Council of Cebu and its corporate partners to bring the festival here every year. It is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. So expect a long queue near the theater entrance.

Other big cities like Davao and Cagayan de Oro have also started to host the Cineuropa. They also followed Cebu by starting to organize their own arts councils, which often end up as local government initiatives and thus not always having an independent character. With membership based on donations from individual and business entities not beholden to politicians, our own Arts Council of Cebu has been operating for decades as a corporate citizen promoting theater, classical music, ballet and cinema to the Cebuano public mostly for free.

In fact, Cineuropa is just one of the foreign film festivals that the Arts Council brings to Cebu almost yearly. Perhaps it is also the biggest, with member countries of the European Union, the main sponsor of this yearly event, participating through their embassies and consulate offices here by sending a sample of their contemporary cinema for the Filipino audience. This year’s Cineuropa features a total of 19 films.

Movies have long been the most effective way to educate a people about foreign culture. In fact, our so-called “colonial mentality” has largely been the result of years of monopoly by Hollywood of the Pinoy silver screen. The joke goes that our nation spent 300 years in the convent and 50 years in Hollywood.

But that has largely changed now as the Philippine independent cinema is starting to challenge not just Hollywood but the local big studios as well. And of course, there is the proliferation of foreign films and growing interest in them by the Filipino audience.

In fact, even young audiences who regularly watch Japanese anime or Korean telenovelas are starting to get used to reading subtitles. I heard a Korean film festival is also being held right now in one of those SM cinemas. So two film festivals simultaneously running on a weekend is a rare double treat for the Cebuano cinephile.

The foreign film festivals add to the many different ways we experience world culture today. Right at the food court near the theater, choices of foreign cuisine are already confusing to the starved moviegoer. Should we have ramen, lasagna or caramel macchiato to warm ourselves just before entering the freezing caverns of the theater? Of course, there’s American popcorn which may now be flavored with Mexican salsa, teriyaki, adobo or what have you.

Once inside, our cozy seats turn into airline recliners as we are brought to faraway places, with strange food, music, language, architecture, etc., in a virtual travel. The stories may be told in different ways, using plot lines, cuts, and shots not seen in local screen, yet there is always something that strikes a nerve, perhaps a common feeling arising from a universal predicament.

For example, in the Romanian film “Exchange,” featured last Friday night, we saw how a newly entrenched government worker tries to seek opportunities abroad with the last of his money only to be victimized by Romanian “budol-budol” gangs. Away from his family and frustrated by corrupt and inept local police, he ends up taking the law in his hands and becoming the same criminal who had victimized him and other innocent people in illegal currency exchange.

We saw the same moral contradiction being tackled in “Bicycle Thief” by the Italian neorealist Vittorio De Sica and in our own “Kapit sa Patalim” by Lino Brocka. It only goes to show that cinema best expresses that which makes us different from peoples of other countries and yet also the many things that we share in common.

The Cineuropa continues today with films from Spain (“Mataharis,” 10:30 a.m.), Slovakia (“Mosquito’s Tango,” 12:30 p.m.), Sweden (“Mammoth,” 2:45 p.m.), United Kingdom (“Never Let Me Go,” 5:00 p.m.), Switzerland (“How About Love,” 7 p.m.), and The Netherlands (“The Silent Army,” 9 p.m.).

Last day night also saw the opening of “Share Light: A Visual Insight,” an exhibit of paintings on the theme of light by the Cebu Artists Inc. (CAI) at the newly opened Cebu Museum (second floor of the Rizal Memorial Library). I was one of non-CAI member artists invited to participate in this exhibit. Other guest artists include Fr. Jason Dy, S.J.; the French painter Remy Rault; and Malaysian artists Janiz Chan and Queenie Chow. As in the globalization of our cinematic tastes, this show promises to be another cultural fusion.

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Monday, September 19, 2011

In Loving Memory at Arte + Fe Exhibition












In Loving Memory
by Jason Dy
A key part of this installation are empty bottles that can be filled by the visitors of the Arte+Faith exhibition at the current Catholic World Youth Days in Madrid (15-21 August, 2011) with memories of their beloved dead using any mementos they have brought with them. Paper and pen are provided to fill in: In loving memory of _____________.
Next to these bottles stand cast polyresin statues of angels molded from an old and worn-out statue of an angel with broken wings I salvaged from a demolished cemetery in the Philippines. Afterwards it was turned into a housing complex for the poor near our parish. Each statue will be covered with envelopes with intentions for the dead.
On a shelf on the wall I have put several bottles in loving memory of these following groups:
1. Those unknown to human beings but known to God
2. Victims of child abuse and exploitation
3. Victims of natural calamities (flood, tsunami, earthquake)
4. Victims of war and conflict
5. Victims of famine and sickness
6. Modern-day saints and heroes (John Paul II, Mother Teresa, et al.)
The installation finds its origin in the devotional practice of faithful Catholics to remember their departed loved ones, which takes place on November 2 on the feast of All Souls Day. As Catholic believers we believe in the communion of the living and the dead, which means that we pray for each other. For me as a Jesuit priest it indicates that I offer the mass to God as an act of devotion and prayer for both the living and the dead. For me as an artist the installation provided a venue to investigate how this form of art interacts with a Christian devotional practice. It also probed into the potential of employing art in ministry, whereby art does not only display a beautiful form but also becomes an image that opens a window for spiritual encounter and enrichment. I hope the bottled memories will provide people with an opportunity for catharsis, a venue for reliving memories and for keeping the legacy of the dead alive.
May we all be comforted by the words of the Irish funeral prayer ‘Longing for One More Day’: ‘When we lose someone we love it seems that time stands still. What moves through us is a silence... a quiet sadness... a longing for one more day... one more word... one more touch. We may not understand why you left this earth so soon or why you left before we were ready to say good-bye, but little by little, we begin to remember not just that you died, but that you lived. And that your life gave us memories too beautiful to forget. We will see you again some day, in a heavenly place where there is no parting. A place where there are no words that mean good-bye.’

taken from ArtWay.eu

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