Art Events in Manila and Beyond

SLab (Silverlens Lab) is proud to announce the opening of Bukod Tanging Pag-Ibig: A Don Fernando Register by Jose Tence “Bogie” Ruiz on February 18, Wednesday at 6pm. A contemporary response to National Artist Fernando Amorsolo, the show is comprised of Ruiz's paintings and sculpture. Ruiz studied painting in the 1970's when the Amorsolo method was a template both learned yet resisted, as Ruiz struggled to carve his own idiom in the decades of nascent postmodernism. Ruiz elaborates, “We hold to differing contexts, and my homage/deconstructi ons of the Master will bear this out. As with the solitary joy of painting. Amorsolo could not have been better named. In poetic Filipino, his name might be recast as ‘Bukod-Tanging Pag-Ibig,’ descriptive of the irreplaceable satisfaction that painting, and now the multi-media facture of visuals, allows its devotees.“

For over 30 years, Jose Tence Ruiz has been involved in multi-media visual activities such as set design, publication design, book illustration, media presentations, teaching, editorial illustration, painting, art for advocacy, sculpture, installation and performance art. He is an ARAW ng Maynila Awardee for New Media (2003), and one of the few Five Time AAP Award Winners (1979–2005). He currently works as a multi- media artist and an independent writer/consultant/ curator for such institutions as the Cultural Center of the Philippines, The National Commission for Culture and the Arts, The Pasig City Arts Museum, Neo-Angono Artists Collective and The Ateneo Art Gallery.

Bukod Tanging Pag-ibig: A Don Fernando Register by Jose Tence Ruiz runs from February 18-March 21, 2009 at SLab (Silverlens Lab). There will be two Saturday talks by Ruiz, both from 3-5pm. The talk on March 7 will be “Krokis na Tumatalab (The Efficascent Sketch),” and on March 21 “Mga Talinhagang Misteryoso’t Mababangis (Mysterious and Brutish Tropes). Bukod Tanging Pag-ibig will be shown along with The Passing of Light 2: Book of Illumination by Emmanuel Santos at Silverlens Gallery and Metallurgy of Desire by Conrado Velasco at 20Square.

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