Exhibitions

This coming week's exhibition, the initial exhibit of the month long "Strokes and Silhouettes" project at Power Plant, starts on Monday, 7 August 2017. The exhibition features a trio of the country's best contemporary artists - Vincent de Pio, Anton Del Castillo, and Ram Mallari - in an exhibition entitled "Mimic" at the North Court. "Mimic" takes its name from mimesis, a theoretical concept that states that art should strive to mimic the real world. The three artists in the exhibition use mimetic theory as a platform to explore their own individual practices.

An artist known for using feelings of nostalgia, childhood, and lost innocence in his work, Anton Del Castillo was trained at the College of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines before embarking in a practice that includes painting and sculpture. He has exhibited extensively throughout Asia and the US, and has garnered multiple awards for his practice, including the 2014 Schoeni Prize of the Sovereign Asian Art Competition in Hong Kong, and the 2014 Jurors Choice Award and Philippines Arts Award. Also a product of UP, Vincent de Pio is known for his figurations of the female form, and his new series of unique paintings of Japanese historical scenes juxtaposed with images from J-Pop culture on large folded origami paper. He has exhibited extensively around Asia and North America, and has recently garnered acclaim for his participation at Galerie Stephanie's booth at Art Fair Philippines 2017 in February. Ram Mallari, on the other hand, is a sculptor of pop cultural imagery, mainly drawn from science fiction, film, and comics. Mallari was recently on the cover of Hong Kong-based World Sculpture News Magazine.

These three artists will exhibit representational art at the North Court, while a selection of some of the best new abstractionists in the country will exhibit at the Concourse, in an exhibition called Emerging Abstraction. These new artists demonstrate the continued relevance of abstraction in visual art as a fantastic counterpoint to the Mimic exhibition in the North Court.