PRESS RELEASE
What
makes art or design distinctly Filipino? This question has always been
asked, posing a challenge to visual arts and national identity. A few
decades ago, this was not much of an issue but through the years, historical
buildings, churches, monuments, homes, iconic structures, architectural designs
have been devastated by earthquakes and other natural calamities or
intentionally torn down.
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| View of Luneta and Ermita District before 1920 |
TRILOGY is an exhibition
that brings the audience into the world of heritage: how it is created, how is
it nurtured, and how it is brought back to life. Is heritage the building? Is
it the city? Is it the memory of what was then? Or is it the person who is the
keeper of knowledge passed on from one generation to the next? Perhaps it is
all these, for heritage defines identity. It is who we are - when we learn to
accept it. Through the objects, buildings, and environments that were created
throughout our people's history, we are made to experience how it is to be
Filipino.
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| Bust of Guillermo Tolentino By Willy Layug |
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| Guernica By Willy Layug |
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| Escolta in 1930's |
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| Bahay na Bato with Nipa Roof |
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| Ceiling Fragment from Intramuros Administration Collection |
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| Crisologo Street Vigan |
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| San Agustin Church Intramuros |
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| San Ignacio Ceiling |
TRILOGY is composed of three
stories: the world of the craftsmen of Betis, Pampanga, another that
illustrates how Vigan celebrates an entire city's heritage, and the last one
that tells us that what had been lost in Intramuros during the war is worth
definitely recuperating. In all three, countrymen and government work
hand-in-hand to keep the knowledge, memory, and the manifestations of our
identity intact.
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| Escolta in 1890's |
TRILOGY invites us all to
participate in the work of creating, preserving, and restoring our heritage, so
we may be able to transmit these to future generations of Filipinos, as our
identity is in our hands.
The
exhibit will run from October 15-28, 2014, at the Art
Pavilion, 2F LRI Design Plaza, Nicanor Garcia
St., Bel-Air II, Makati City.
