On July 12, 2008 at 6 in the afternoon, Habi Home Interiors Gallery, with its charming interior and intimate ambiance, proudly opens its door to the public as paintings in various media grace its vibrant-hued four walls.  Artists AARON BAUTISTA, RODEL FIDELIS, KATRINA PALLON, and MARNELLI PUYOT collaborate in a group exhibit entitled “In The Absence of a Common Ground.”

In this open-themed exhibit, the artists were given the freedom to indulge in his/her chosen subject and/or theme with a very distinct feeling and experience resonating from each collaborating artist’s collection.  Thus, in “In the Absence of a Common Ground,” one is treated to four unique voices communicated through the different perspectives of each collection.  It can, therefore, be said that this is not just a single exhibit but four simultaneous exhibits in unison.

AARON BAUTISTA is a professional painter and art teacher from Angono.  Working mostly with mixed media on canvas, he has established a style in abstractionism which currently comprises his body of works.  Aside from being a member of Angono Ateliers and Neo Angono Artists Collective Inc., as well as being part of numerous group exhibits, Bautista has had a total of 7 one-man shows to date.  Mounting a collection of his colourful canvasses, he once again adorns the walls of Habi Gallery with his vibrant palette of colors and lines, and layers of undulating paint.  With his easily perceivable forms, daringly-manipulated spaces, and exuberant play of colours that seemingly burst out of his stretched canvasses, Bautista, yet again, displays and allows the beholder to appreciate the non-objectivity of his brilliant abstractionism.

RODEL FIDELIS’ foray with the visual arts started out by being an assistant to master painter Mario Parial.  Keen in learning more about composition, lines, and color, Fidelis juggled his thoughts from making perfect stretchers and priming canvasses to working on actual paint – doing collages.  He also learned the fine art of framing.  After his stint with Parial, Fidelis moved on to work for the Heritage Gallery.  To date, Fidelis remains to be a framer by trade to many contemporary as well as up-and-coming artists.  In this exhibit, Fidelis showcases a series of mystical landscapes in oil on canvas.

KATRINA PALLON is a visual artist working with the medium of paint, photography, and masks.  She also works as a freelance graphic designer and writer, participates in spoken word events, and sings for an independent rock band.  Highly influenced by the intricacies of French art nouveau, Asian textile prints and patterns, Venetian masks, flora, circuses, and carnivals, Pallon’s artistic works attest to her love for elaborate designs and her knack for romanticizing even the simplest of subjects.  Her works are mostly about women, of dark and melancholic, sometimes mystical figures and tales, of the fleeting beauty of things, of masks and mystery  – oftentimes using warm, vivid tones to translate these images into paintings and/or photographs. In “In The Absence of a Common Ground,” Pallon fuses ornate Pan-Asian motifs, exquisite blooms, and female figures to present a collection of images and stories of women in acrylics, ink, and water colour.

MARNELLI NACION PUYOT once heard from a friend that humans choose to lead one of the two kinds of life: a life of meaning, constantly obsessing on the future and masturbating on the past, and; a life of happiness, which is concerned only with the present. Since then, she has asked herself everyday which life she would choose if ever the time for that should come. She is always conscious of the fact, perhaps even only on the personal level, that, rather intuitively, objects can be beautiful without having to have meaning, this quality itself is reason for their beauty. Ironically with this guiding principle her works explore ideas behind the nature of existence, and the capacity of the human intellect to hegemonize the world and everything contained in it.  Marnelli is a 3rd year Art History Major at the UP College of Fine Arts.  She is 21 years old and this is a first for her to exhibit her works. She also plays the oboe.

“In The Absence of a Common Ground” is scheduled to run until August 4, 2008.  In between the opening and closing dates, one may opt to visit Habi Gallery at any day of the week as it is open daily from 12 noon to 8 in the evening.  Habi Home Interiors Gallery is located at Unit C-235 Serendra, Fort Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines.  For inquiries and more information, you may call (632) 909.7050 or email artepinas@gmail.com.

Start:	May 30, '08 6:00p
End:	Jun 30, '08

The quiet and novel Galerie Hans Brumann opens its door on May 30, 2008 to the public with frenetic scenes of the mundane rubble of the Philippine public or wet markets painted on the colorful canvasses of NUNELUCIO ALVARADO, and the bucolic figures of fishermen and fish vendors and rice farmers positing their harvests as melded by FERDINAND CACNIO in the joint show entitled "Staples for Perpetuity."

As timely as the current global food crisis and the daily grind of the local news stories, the works on exhibition pose questions on the state of anarchy among the downtrodden sector of the local populace who are crammed in their makeshifts, or those who amble above the water towing their fish catch from bancas up to the foot worn wooden ramps. Do their heedless struggles to provide for the human consumption redound only to meager earnings that leave them only as frenzied sights of human squalor and as basins of Filipino communal life?

Start:	Apr 1, '08 6:00p
End:	Apr 22, '08
Location:	ARTASIA GALLERY,SM MEGAMALL.BLDG.A,4TH FLR.ARTWALK

Group show at ARTASIA by:BUDS COVOCAR,ANNA DELEON,CALOY GABUCO,MARTIN HONASAN,ROEL OBEMIO,CARLO ONGCHANGCO,FRED RAMIREZ,OMI REYES,ANER SEBASTIN,JOSEPH VILLAMAR,and MIGS VILLANUVA.

Hello dear friends,

due to problems with the venue, we are moving  Sojourn's opening date on

Monday, March 31 at 7pm.

The exhibit will  now be located at the Roof Deck of Torre Lorenzo, Taft avenue corner Pablo Ocampo street, Manila.

See you there!!! 

A bit of History, a bit of crystal ball gazing, a bit about painting, a bit about computer manipulation, a bit of a rant, a bit of a heart felt plea for the new.
Is It Photography?
In photographic terms is the computer just an enlarger with some more bells and whistles? Why is the pixel so important?
Artist/photographer Henry Bateman has been working with computers in an arts environment for 34 years, he has also been working without them and on balance he has found that not only do they make life easier they also make it a lot more fun.
Find out why when he talks about his experiences in "Is It Photography".
Saturday 29 March 4pm
One workshop gallery
G/F La Fuerza Paza II
2241 Don Chino Roces Ave (formerly Pasong Tamo)
Corner Sabio St
Makati City

Free Admission

This is our official yahoo group from now on. We encourage everyone to join this yahoo group so that you will be regularly updated on current ART events and activities. You may also use this yahoo group to announce your own art activities, exhibits, etc.etc. However we will still be using the AAP-Pinoy yahoo group so that we can reach a wider audience.

By Lito Zulueta
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:30:00 03/03/2008

MANILA, Philippines - Salvador Convocar combines figuration and abstraction with his characteristic bravura in “Characters, Creatures and Critters” March 3-14 at 1/of Gallery, Serendra, Bonifacio Global City (tel. 9013152).

The show exhibits once again Convocar’s singular mastery of mixed media. Influenced by Louise Nevelson, Convocar’s works are really mixed-media-on-canvas approximations of the Russian-American’s sculptures.

Grid-like and multilayered, with rich forms emerging and overlapping in what appears like a geometrical quilt, Nevelson’s works are intensely felt explorations of space and sites. They seem a miniature world with its complex of flora and fauna, widths and walls.

Convocar’s works expand the space and are less constricted in composition. His colors are an industrial wash and a metallic rust, midway between monochrome and polychrome. Nevelson’s works call attention to their structure, Convocar’s to their “made-up-ness.”

But instead of Nevelson’s seeming cold detachment, a mask for her intensity, Convocar is unflaggingly engaged, almost childlike. His canvases are filled with human figures that are part whimsical, part enigmatic, framed by color washes and archaic symbols and patterns.

In his new series, the figures have become cartoonish, the colors not so much industrial as pastoral.

The naturalist streak seems evident in the subjects: birds with their wings graphically sketched like metal parts and wires, horses with their flanks and hooves like metal braces.

It is easy to see that Convocar is trying to strike a balance between the natural and the mechanical. He appears to betray the artist’s inexorable bent toward the romantic.

The new tendency may be wishful thinking since even nature has to suffer from climate change and other excesses of manufacturing overdrive and industrial pollution. Can the artist’s romantic spirit save the day for nature?

Convocar in his works insists that the artist’s calling and mission remain valid. The artist will forever paint natural landscapes, even if such are already tainted by industrial fallout. The spirit of the artist lives on, come postmodern hell or high water.

Art Review by Lito Zulueta

Start:	Feb 9, '08 10:00a
End:	Feb 29, '08

The AAP will be having it's Anniversary celebration this coming February 16, 2008 Saturday.
Those who are interested to join the Anniversary Exhibit- you may submit 1 artwork only. You may choose from either 12 x 16 in. or 18 x 24 inches horizontal or vertical format. The Painting should be ready for hanging. If your painting is unframed it must be mounted on a stretcher and with clean or painted sidings(museum wrapped) and ready for hanging.
Paintings must be submitted at the Kanlungan ng Sining on or before February 9, 2008.
See you all & happy painting!

Start:	Jan 15, '08 10:00a
End:	Feb 15, '08
Location:	ARTASIA,SM Megamall.bldg.A,4th flr.

A collection of black and white nude paintings.

Start:	Dec 15, '07 5:00p
End:	Dec 30, '07
Location:	3rd Level Lobby, Shangri-La Mall, Mandaluyong

Book Launching of the coffee-table book " The Saturday Group Art Book " and Art Exhibit. Avail of a special discount of P500 during the launch night. The book is authored by Palanca awardee Migs Villanueva. Exquisitely designed with lavish art reproductions by the distinguished members of the Saturday Group.