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RAUL AGNER'S ESSAYS on Adamson University and other topics, ARTWORKS - drawings and paintings and PHOTOS both historical and current. (Below: "Bubbleman 2: Off Course," Adamson U. Collection)
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Monday, November 14, 2011
HANG-AW 2
Group Show of the Kasikasi Art Association of Tacloban
November 9 – December 10, 2011
Adamson University Art Gallery
The Kasikasi Art Association of Tacloban reprises its show last year, this time through small works done in a variety of art media that bear images, scenes and issues in their culture and community or broadly explore themes that inspire pure creative expression. “Hang-aw” in Waray means to peer from a window, the equivalent of the Tagalog “dungaw.” The exhibit is thus a way of giving the Manila audience a sampling of artworks coming from the province, in this case Leyte. Often overlooked in comparison to their Manila counterparts, province-based artists are nevertheless productive and committed to art and artmaking. They in fact offer something that can be described as more community-specific or local-inspired in contrast to urban artists who generally deal with themes that are more national or universal in scope, outlook and style.
But to make “hang-aw” is a two-way process. While you are the one being viewed, you also view in return, which makes it possible to learn or be influenced in one way or another by what you see.
The exhibiting artists thus hope to enrich their artmaking by selecting the most valuable of what they get from their foray into our country’s most urban environment, Metropolitan Manila.
The participating artists, all members of the KasiKasi Art Association of Tacloban, are:
Rico Palacio Dante Enage Archie Prisno
Crispin Asensi Raul Agner Bebot Flandez
Billy Pomida Ernie Ybañez Jasmine Diaz
The group regularly exhibits in Tacloban and is considered the most active art group in that part of the Visayas. Individually and as a group, the artists have also joined shows in Calbayog, Ormoc, Cebu, Boracay, Iloilo, Bohol, Malaysia, and Japan. -rda
“HULAG”
“HULAG” Group Show of the Kasikasi Art Association of Tacloban
4-18 November 2011
PhilamLife Building Lobby, U.N. Ave., Ermita, Manila
Artists from the provinces remain largely unheard of even if they are just as productive, hardworking and talented as their Manila counterparts. “Hulag,” a Waray word that describes a fish’s splashing movement up to the water surface to take in air, is a modest attempt by a group of Tacloban/Leyte-based artists to make its artmaking efforts felt in the big city. In this show, the artists present works in different media that bear images, scenes and issues in their culture and community or broadly explore themes that inspire pure creative expression.
Surely this exhibit may not produce a big splash in the urban art landscape but it may succeed in issuing a firm statement that art is alive and vibrant even in places far removed from the glare of publicity and big sponsors usually concentrated in urban centers. In those localities – in this particular case Leyte - artists continue to toil, as this show demonstrates, despite the daunting challenges that come with their chosen passion. More than anything else, the pursuit of art has become its own reward. The occasional foray to the big city – their second – is both a chance to share what they have made and a moment to inhale fresh ideas and inspirations from a different environment and heartening encouragement from a metropolitan audience.
The participating artists, all members of the KasiKasi Art Association of Tacloban, are:
Rico Palacio
Dante Enage
Archie Prisno
Crispin Asensi
Raul Agner
Bebot Flandez
Billy Pomida
Ernie Ybañez
Jasmine Diaz
The group regularly exhibits in Tacloban and is considered the most active art group in that part of the Visayas. Individually and as a group, the artists have also joined shows in Calbayog, Ormoc, Cebu, Boracay, Iloilo, Bohol, Malaysia, and Japan. -rda
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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