Start:	Jul 4, '08 2:00p
Location:	Kanlungan ng Sining, Kilometer 0, Rizal Park

Figure sketching at the Kanlungan ng Sining ( most probably nude )
No collection of fee. Members will just be asked to contribute 1 piece of sketch as their contribution for the expenses incurred ( models fee and simple snack) See you there and rub elbows with established and up and coming artists members of the AAP.

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:	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.