Opening reception 29 June 2019, 6:00 PM
Exhibit runs until 2 August 2019
3/F Galleries Jorge B. Vargas Museum and
Filipiniana Research Center
University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City
Presented by:
Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana
Research Center
and Project Space Pilipinas
Studio Studies by Fr. Jason Dy, SJ
responds to the question, “What is the function of the studio?,” raised by the French
conceptual artist, Daniel Buren.
In the
exhibition, the Jesuit priest and contemporary artist examines not
just the function of the studio in relation to his
situational and participatory art projects since 2009 when he founded the
Alternative Contemporary Art Studio (ACAS) in the garage of Sacred Heart Parish
administration building, Cebu City.
He is mainly
interested in understanding the concept and praxis of a studio as a scaffolding
that mutually supports creative practices of artists; a laboratory that
simultaneously cares and controls the fragility of artworks; and a blueprint
that interactively relates to studied ideas, stored resources, and salvaged
materials. This studio exploration is an important aspect of his art practice
that investigates into “the community and studio-based responses to changing
religious and cultural circumstances, locations and events.”
The artworks
and objects presented in the exhibition range from video installations, found
objects, drawings, bottled ecospheres and terrariums, detrital exhibition
materials, annotated blueprints, archival documents to art collections of ACAS.
In the installation entitled “Supported
Scaffolding,” features the artworks of Cebuano artists, namely, KoloWn,
Nomar Miano, Jose Mari Picornell, Celso Pepito, Ritchie Landis Doner Quijano, Jose
“Kimsoy” Yap, Jr., Gigi Ocampo, Estela Ocampo-Fernandez, Felix Catarata, Wyndelle
Remonde, Radel Paredes, Vidal Alcoseba, Jr., and Wenceslao “Tito” Cuevas, Jr.
on a propped-up white wall.
These presented
works are material manifestations of what is conceptualized and produced,
collected and stored, documented and archived as well as re-contextualized and
re-represented in multiple spaces that Dy inhabits from Cebu City to Liverpool
City and up to the present (Quezon City) as studio spaces. The multiplicity of
these spaces may be reflective of the itinerant situation of artists like Dy
or perhaps, may point to the reality of the studio as an in-between space of
the eternal placement/displacement of artworks.
Exhibit runs
until August 2. For more information, email vargasmuseum@up.edu.ph.
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Special thanks to Patrick Flores, Lea Marie
Diño, Gian Carlo Delgado, Glen Silarde, John-John, and Jorge B. Vargas Museum
and Filipiniana Research Center; Renan Laru-an, Leslie de Chavez, Dyan
Corachea, Jomar Galutera, Christopher Zamora, and Project Space Pilipinas, Fr.
Jose Quilongquilong, SJ, Fr. Ben Nebres, SJ, Fr. Patrick Falguera, SJ, Fr. Ro
Atilano, SJ, Fr. Rene Javellana, SJ, Gina de los Santos, and Ateneo Jesuit
Residence Community; Fr. Jose Ramon Villarin, SJ, Ma. Victoria Herrera, Yael
Buencamino, Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Joel de Leon, Martin Villanueva, Carlomar
Daoana, Hidde van der Waal, Roxanne Cuacoy, Franklin Llenaresas, Joy Fernandez,
Ateneo Art Gallery, Ateneo Fine Arts Department, Areté, and Ateneo Facilities
Management Office; participating artists: KoloWn, Nomar Miano, Jose Mari
Picornell, Celso Pepito, Ritchie Landis Doner Quijano, Jose “Kimsoy” Yap, Jr.,
Gigi Ocampo, Estela Ocampo-Fernandez, Felix Catarata, Wyndelle Remonde, Radel
Paredes, Vidal Alcoseba, Jr., and Wenceslao “Tito” Cuevas, Jr.; Tina Fernadez,
Ko Ki, and Art Informal; and art patrons: Atty. Sedfrey Santiago, Levino
Garcia, Lily Ngochua, Debbie Tan, Ramonchito Cruz, Manny de Castro, Lyndee Tan,
Annie Lim, Lily Choachuy, and Bang/Boydee Dizon.
