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MADE, after all, is an incubator for cultural wealth.
It is the role of the artist to reflect the times. Such is the case with the 200 and more artists who've made their names with the Metrobank Art & Design Excellence (MADE) program. In 1984, the very first MADE poster flashed ...
At the age of 82, Benedicto Cabrera, better known as BenCab, endures as arguably the most influential Filipino artist of his time. Here, the National Artist for Visual Arts talks to Esquire Philippines about his new collaborations, the evolution of his practice, and, of course, the power of Sabel.
One can't tell the story of Philippine art without mentioning the name of a certain Benedicto Cabrera, better known as BenCab. And one can't even begin to describe his artistic legacy without talking about Sabel. The mysterious woman of the ...
"I remember that very moment as a grand finalist in The Voice Kids because I didn't win. I remember going backstage crying because I was like, 'Oh, well. I guess this is it. It's done, bye.'"
Juan Karlos has now spent close to half of his life in the limelight, and he's not even 24 yet. The lights were bright but he shone brighter. Some people, you could argue, are destined to be prodigies, after all. When ...
Meet the artists who continue to shape and reshape the Filipino contemporary art scene.
One of the first things that happen upon seeing great art is how we're obliged to block off the outside world and dedicate ourselves to it. We shape and reshape the space in our own image. We engage with the piece. ...
"So if you see the artistry in the iconoclasts, you know that the rule breakers always get appreciated, no matter what."
It's a smoldering Wednesday in June and here we are on the rooftop of Ayala Malls Manila Bay. Towering over us is a gigantic graffiti mural dedicated to Filipino-American National Basketball Association player Jalen Green. Quiccs Maiquez, who helped turn ...
Rare are the names that carry the force of life of Ronald Ventura's in the Southeast Asian contemporary art scene. And at 50, a daunting age to most people, the global behemoth is just about to enter a different kind of prime.
Turning the big five-oh can be a daunting task for most people. There's so much to look back on and time seems to be collapsing as the realities of aging sets in. Reminders of mortality and snippets of the past ...
Sabbaticals are something every artist has to go through every now and then. Reflect, confront, and, if they're fortunate enough, conquer. Ah yes, the importance of being idle.
We're catching Isabel Santos in the middle of a down year. Down, not because it's one of those lost years; the kind when you're down on your luck or when you're down in an ineffable rut. Down, because ...
New Wave. High Street. Iconoclast.
This July, Esquire Philippines takes you into the Philippine art community with our 2023 art issue. We're excited to unveil our triple cover, featuring some marquee names in the Filipino contemporary art scene.Sitting down with Quiccs, Isabel Santos, and Ronald ...
The critically acclaimed sculptor weaves personal, collective, and historical memory in a dizzying exhibition that retells the bloodshed of the country's past.
Julie Lluch is as monumental as the pieces she sculpts. As one of the foremost living sculptors in the Philippines, Lluch has long exhausted the sensuality and grace in her chosen media. She's molded poetry into terracotta, stone, ceramic, bronze, and, ...
A byproduct of postwar Philippines, the Presidential Medal of Merit awardee's time with the College of Fine Arts would come to inform his artistic sensibilities.
Postwar Philippines pratically birthed modernism. The late 1940s to the early 1950s, in particular, saw the rise of the next set of great Filipino artists. And the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (UPCFA) Padre Faura campus would become one ...
The dystopian impressionist had a lot of sleepless nights.
Kirk Dijamco hasn't gotten a lot of sleep lately. Insomnia can break just about anyone, but not him. In the wee hours of the morning is usually when the ugliest demons rear their even uglier heads. Fortunately, that special period between ...
Details of the past in fast cars and faster times.
It took a few lives for Michael Sagaran to rediscover art again. The once-young-and-promising art major moved toward a very different path since his days as a finalist for the Shell National Art Competition. You can even say that ...
Fresh off her first solo exhibition, Writings of a Never Not Moving.
Tita Halaman spends most of her time in the garden of extremes. Raw, liberated, and bold in their movements, her mystically twisted figures convey the complexities of human emotion. While they may seem like they agonize, these characters come from a great ...
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