FROILAN
Calayag’s Signs of Life exhibition is ongoing until September 9, 2018 at the Pasilyo
Guillermo Tolentino (3F Hallway Gallery) of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
The exhibition is presented by CCP with support from West Gallery.
Signs of
Life is an exhibition that offers a threefold manifest.
The first
is the fictional account of a boy who finds a large rock. Upon closer
inspection, it becomes a head, and forms a figure. Moving even closer, it
transforms into a planet carrying life. The rocks become the frames of the
story of these life-forms that contain heroes, villains and adventures.
The second
is the narrative of the man who pursued the field of art, but has been
decidedly missing from the center of it. He persists, same as before, and yet
does not often come out to the surface. Froilan Calayag is but one of many
painters that first made a mark in the student art competition circuit, and
then in commercial galleries in the first two decades of the millennium. Signs
of Life is his twelfth solo exhibition in eleven years.
The third
is the idea of painting within the confusing and multifaceted context of
Philippine contemporary art.
In the end,
the manifest, whatever can be read from it, is merely an accounting of the
adventures taken on the ship. History will tell us which of these stories will
find importance to those in the future.
Exhibit
viewing hours are from Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm (and until 10pm on days
with evening performances at the CCP Main Theater). For more information,
contact the CCP Visual Arts and Museum Division at (632) 832-1125 local
1504/1505 and 832-3702, mobile 0917-6033809, email (ccp.exhibits@gmail.com), or
visit www.culturalcenter.gov.ph.
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