Foundation News

East of Manila lie the pilgrimage city of Antipolo and the municipality of Angono, hometown of national artists composer Lucio San Pedro and painter Carlos “Botong” Francisco. Our one-day tour will focus on the artistic and cultural highlights of these two summer destinations.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011
8:00 am to 6:00 pm

Php1,800 for Members; Php1,900 for Non-Members

Itinerary of Travel
8:00 am	Leave meeting place at Sanctuario de San Antonio Church in Forbes’ Park, Makati City
9:00-10:15 am	Arrive Angono, Rizal Visit at Balaw-Balaw with morning snack (Tour of Perdigon Vocalan’s Folk Art Gallery with “Taka Demo”)
10:30-11:30 am	Guided walking tour at the Angono Petroglyphs (With a local guide from Angono)
12:00-1:00 pm	Arrive Antipolo City Lunch at Crescent Moon Café (Pottery studio of Lanelle Abueva Fernando) Souvenir Shopping
1:30-3:00 pm	Arrive Pinto Gallery Guided gallery tour with afternoon snack at Earth Cafe
3:15-4:30 pm	Visit at Our Lady of Good Voyage Shrine Pasalubong Shopping
6:00 pm	Back to Sanctuario de San Antonio in Makati.

For reservations and inquiries, please contact Elvie or Mae at the Museum Foundation of the Philippines office: Tel 404 2685, 697 9509 or 0949 3338211 (Elvie) or 0927 8484680 (Mae). You may also contact Flor Cortez at 722 9073 or Tonie Bautista at 810 6912.

You can download the reply form from here. Please fill up and fax to 404.2685.

Dear Museum Foundation Members,

In honor of May, Filipino Heritage Month, we traditionally focus on food that celebrates our heritage.

This time the International Wine and Food Society Manila Ladies Branch and their guests have co-invited us to Saturday lunch at the National Museum on May 14, 2011, and have opened the event to MFPI friends and their guests.

It shall be a lovely afternoon … with Petty Johannot, former Curator at the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva and now Professorial Lecturer at the University of the Philippines, opening the afternoon with an insightful talk highlighting her recently published book Paths of Origin … a wonderful Filipino food celebration catered by Margarita Fores to be nicely paired with wine … a range of elegant indigenous and woven fabrics by Tepiña, La Herminia and Cora Manimbo … and jewelry  by Natalya Lagdameo all for yourviewing and indulging … and the option to extend the afternoon to tour the museum at your leisure.

Schedule:

1100am	Arrive at the National Art Gallery and Registration
1130am	Talk by Petty Johannot
1215pm	Filipino Food Celebration by Margarita Fores
200pm	Tour the Museum Buildings and Complex at your leisure

Please find below the menu for your reading pleasure, and further along, you can find more details about the book and the designers.

PASS-AROUND ANTIPASTI

BARQUILLOS CYLINDERS WITH CHIVE MOUSSE & PATA NEGROS CRISP

CHICHARON CURLS, GARLIC MOUSSE, ADOBO FLAKES

BRUSCHETTA WITH TAGAYTAY TOMATOES, BASILICO, EXTRA-VIRGIN OLIVE OIL

ON THE BUFFET

PANCIT EFUVEN STATION

TOPPINGS

HOMEMADE FISH BALL

LUKBAN LONGGANISA

KUCHAY

KABUTE MUSHROOM

TOASTED GARLIC

MAINS

PHILIPPINE SEABASS AL SALE “BULGAN”, BAKED IN SALT CRUST

SAUCES: ANTIPOLO KASUY-BASIL PESTO & KASUBHA ROUILLE

CLASSIC CHICKEN GALANTINA

SAUCES: GRAVY & HOMEMADE MAYONESA

WITH STEAMED MILAGROSA

GINISANG SIGADILLAS

SALAD

MIXED GREENS WITH RADDISH, BICOL CRISPY DILIS AND IBA

WITH SUGARCANE VINAIGRETTE

DESSERT

GINATAANG CEBU MANGO SAGO

CAPIZ BUKAYO CRÈME BRULEE

COFFEE OR TEA

MEMBERS P2,200 & GUESTS P2,600

More about Paths of Origin:

This publication focuses on recurrent Austronesian Heritage and themes that are reflected in the collections of the National Museum of the Philippines in Manila, the Museum Nasional Indonesia in Jakarta, and the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde in Leiden.

In Depth  Details about the Designers:

Tepiña is contemporary Filipino fabric woven by the gentle people of Rurungan Sa Tubod Foundation. A blend of silk and pineapple fibers, delicate and sheer but at the same time structured and strong. The company has a luxuriously green approach in its methods.

La Herminia Piña Weaving Industry is a duly licensed manufacturer/trader of hand woven piña cloth, piña-silk, abaca-cotton-silk, piña bastos-abaca-cotton and fine abaca cloth. All the materials used are natural fiber from pineapple, silk cocoons, abaca and cotton and the fabric are color with vegetable dye. The company also preserves the cultural heritage, all the processes are done in traditional methods from manual extraction of fiber to weaving.

Cora Manimbo is an internationally known Filipino designer who makes finely crafted Philippine blouses, shawls and gowns using fabrics made from red pineapple, abaca, banana and cotton fibers with meticulous embroideries, beadwork and hand-painted accents.

Designer Natalya Lagdameo creates jewelry inspired by antique amulets and pre-Hispanic and colonial ornaments. They are a wonderful contemporary expression of things historical.

Save a seat for you and your guests! Kindly reply to this email with your name and contact number (and the name/s of your guest/s please) added to the list below. You may also register via telephone numbers 4042685 / 6979509 or via mobile phones 0949 3338211 Elvie or 0927 8484680 Mae. Registration Deadline: May 11, 2011.

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We can easily extended the number of attendees, whether you wish to reserve an entire table, or just invite more friends and guests. Please advise us soonest.

Paths of Origins: The Austronesian Heritage in the Collections of the National Museum of the Philippines, the Museum Nasional Indonesia, and The Netherlands Rijksmuseum voor Völkenkunde

9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon, Saturday, April 16, 2011, Tambunting-Villonco Hall (fourth floor)

National Museum of the Filipino People (former Finance Building), Teodoro Valencia Circle, Rizal Park, Manila

RSVP: Elvie 0949 3338211, Mae 0927 8484680, 404 2685, 697 9509

What You Thought You Knew is History: What connects a farmer tending his terraced pondfields in the Cordilleras to a fisherman off the coast of Sabah in Malaysia? Water remains central to their livelihood and terms such as guwan (to dig a hole on the ground for the former) and sagwan (to paddle in water for the latter) intrinsically link them. The panel will look at boats and boat imagery that have for millennia proven central to the lives of peoples in this region.

9:30-9:45	Guests arrive
9:45-9:50	Welcome to the MFPI panel and introduction of National Museum Director  Ms. Phyllis Zaballero, Museum Foundation of the Philippines Lecture Committee Chair
9:50-9:55	Welcome to the National Museum of the Philippines  Mr. Jeremy Barns, CESO III, National Museum Director IV
9:55-10:10	Acknowledgments by publisher, Florentina Colayco, ArtPostAsia Managing Director
10:10-10:15	Panel introduced and moderated by book editor, Purissima (Petty) Benitez-Johannot
10:15-10:25	“The Austronesian Dispersal Story,” video produced by Ayala Museum  Dr. Peter Bellwood, Professor of Archaeology, Australian National University, Canberra
10:25-10:35	“Travel and Technology on the Balanghai,” Dr. Jesus T. Peralta  Consultant, National Commission for Culture and the Arts
10:35-10:45	“Tracing Austronesian Links through Objects,” Mr. Wilfredo P. Ronquillo  Head, Archaeology Division, National Museum
10:45-10:55	“Maritime Themes in the Austronesian Afterlife,” Dr. Eusebio Z. Dizon  Head, Underwater Archaeology, Archaeology Division, National Museum
10:55-11:05	Question-and-Answer segment
11:05-12:00	Refreshments served

Ateneo Art Gallery, Ayala Museum, Bahay Tsinoy,
Lopez Memorial Museum, and Museo Pambata
in cooperation with the UP College of Fine Arts
invite you to an afternoon of lectures

Global Problems in Contempoary Art
by Kevin Power

and

Gesture is the Message:
Experimental Video and Film in Brazil 60’s and 70’s
by Monica Carballas

on Thursday, 3 March 2011 from 4:30 – 6:30 pm at the Ateneo Art Gallery

Kevin Power is the chair of American Literature at the Universidad de Alicante and former deputy director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. He has curated exhibits on Julian Schnabel (Carmen, Sevilla), Contemporary Mexican Art (Reina Sofia, Madrid) Politicas de la Diferencia (Malba, Buenos Aires and Museum of Contemporary Art, Recife Brazil), Puerto Rico: Los 90 (Instituto de America, Granada), While Cuba Waits (Track 16, Los Angeles) among many others. He has also authored articles and books such as New Cuban Art : A Critial Anthology; Polke’s Post Modern Strategies; Unalmagen Americana; Flash Art (Milano) and Geometria y Vision.

Monica Carballas was an exhibition coordinator at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in 2000 and 20007. She was awarded a fellowship by the Botin Foundation for Curatoriship and Museum Administration in 2007 for her work on Brazilian Experimental Art. She has curated exhibitions such as Experimental Rio, Beyond Art, Poetry and Action, Labyrinth of Visibility : Experimental AudioVisual work during the Dictatorships for the Trienal d Artes Visuals in Santiago, Chile in October 2009 and the Activar Una Historia, that formed part of the program of the Valencia Bienal (2007).

* Videos may be viewed at the Ateneo Art Gallery from 1 pm onwards on Thursday, 3 March 2011.

Bright orange root-like plastic structures hang down from the trees, colorful graffiti sprouts up near the children’s playground and jazz music wafts throughout the park – the explosion of color and creativity could only mean one thing ….  Art In The Park is back!  The annual affordable art fair of the Museum Foundation of the Philippines comes to town again on Saturday, 19 February 2011 from 2-10 pm at the Jaime Velasquez Park in Salcedo Village, Makati.

Art In The Park is an event that people have come to look forward to. Bringing together almost 40 galleries, artist groups and creative collectives in the relaxed, friendly atmosphere of a neighborhood park; it makes art accessible and art buying a less intimidating affair.  Unlike the frenzied energy of most art fairs, Art In The Park is more akin to a reunion of artists and gallerists all hanging out and catching up with each other, allowing park goers to feel comfortable leisurely browsing through the booths and striking up a conversation with the people manning them.  And with the price of all artworks capped at 20,000 pesos (P20,000) even purchasing the art is less daunting. This year’s Art In The Park spills beyond the borders of the Jaime Velasquez park to the surrounding establishments. There will be a lecture on the conservation efforts at San Sebastian Church at 4pm in Salcedo Auctions, and special exhibits in the restaurant Apartment 1B and in the Picasso Boutique Serviced Residences.

The participants of Art In The Park have expanded over the past few years to include those artists that have been discovered by members of the Museum Foundation on the foundation’s heritage tours around the country, such as Amarela from Bohol and the Cebu Artists Inc; and other groups based outside of Metro Manila such as Nineveh Art Space in Laguna, Neo-Angono Artists and Parokyano ng Malabon.  Inviting them to participate in the art fair is the Museum Foundation’s way of exposing art lovers in Manila to the art scene in other parts of the country.

New to Art In The Park art this year are Pablo, a cutting edge gallery that showcases both up and coming artists and the leading lights of contemporary Philippine art, Delirium Art and Design, an online store that sells limited edition designer objects created by artists and designers with, according to their website “love and just a little bit of madness” ; Electrolychee, the graphic design duo of Marcushiro and Bru with their pop-inspired art, and Vinyl on Vinyl a recently opened gallery selling collectible toys and urban art; all four definitely expanding the range of art styles on offer at AIP. Another welcome participant to the artfair is Gallery Frames, one of most respected framers in the country.  They provide buyers with the convenience of having paintings framed immediately after their purchase, then either picking them up or having them delivered a few days after.

Other new booths to look out for are Arnold Art by Ambassador Theo Arnold and Resurrection; both featuring items that have been passionately collected and carefully selected by their proprietors.  Ambassador Arnold’s booth will carry old prints while Resurrection will have environmental and hand crafted furniture.

Art In The Park regulars, Tin-aw, Blanc, Avellana Art Gallery, Art Informal, Nova Art Gallery, Gallery Genesis, Art Verite, L’Arc en Ciel, Metro Gallery, Art Wednesday, Artis Corpus, Galerie Astra, Kulay Art Group, Galeria De Las Islas, FEATI University School of Fine Arts, TutoK, Tintero Art and Design, Ral Arrogante, Tara Soriano, TUP Fine Arts, UST College of Fine Arts & Design and UP College of Fine Arts all make their return to Salcedo Park.  Specialist art groups such as the pottery group of Putik, the Printmakers Association of the Philippines, Zone Five Camera Club, Electrolychee and the Invisible Sisters continue to contribute to the diversity of media and artforms on view while I.N.K (Ilustrador ng Kabataan) Canvas and Sheerjoy, with their illustrations for children appeal to the youngest of art lovers.

Over the past couple of years, Art In The Park has extended its vision of the art fair to include exposing the public to contemporary art installations.  This year Leeroy New reprises the installation that was originally mounted onto the facade of the Ateneo Art Gallery.  In the Jaime Velasquez Park, Balete, takes on a different significance.  The orange flexible conduit tubes recall the saffron Gates of Christo in Central Park, NY.  Wewilldoodle‘s street art intervention in the playground area gives park visitors the opportunity to interact with the artists as they work.

No fair and afternoon in the park would be complete without refreshments provided this year by Rafik Shawarma, Pizza di Grazzia,  Golden Spoon, Nic’s bakeshop, Windows Cafe and Straits Wine Company.

There will be a special musical performance at 8 in the evening – a perfect way to cap off a day spent wandering around a park looking at art.

Art In The Park is on Saturday, 19 February 2011 from 2 – 10 pm at the Jaime Velasquez Park in Salcedo Village, Makati.  It is organized by the Museum Foundation of the Philippines with the help of Baranggay Bel Air, Security Bank and Rubert James Exhibit Masters Corp. Part of the proceeds will go to the foundations’s programs that raise awareness and appreciation for the National Museum and its network.

You can also visit the Art In The Park Facebook page.