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25 favorites from Artfairph 2016

These are 25 of my favorite works exhibited during this year's Art Fair Philippines. I'm sorry if some of them have no names, I was not conscious and deliberate when I went. Something I am trying to continuously work on. Anyway, this blog is mainly a dump site for the photos I take, so I will not bore you with my opinion on these amazing works of art. After all, in the words of Oscar Wilde, "It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors." I'll keep my thoughts and you find yours. (o^-‘)b









CANVAS, Ferdie Montemayor's "Chief"

















Toys Are Us, Gabriel Barredo





Secret Fresh Gallery



~Vinyl on Vinyl, Mayi







Vinyl on Vinyl, The Gap #1 by #AkiraMiyamoto



Vinyl on Vinyl, 



Vinyl on Vinyl, 







West Gallery



 Pamela Yan Santos' Special Exhibit, “In Search of Meaning”

Last sunday, a colorful adventure

Has it been a year already? Lately I seem to be marking time with facebook memories – the ones that remind you of things you've posted on the same day two or three years ago. Talk about dejavu. Suggesting that certains part of my life hasn't changed? Haha. Other times though it's the yearly events I go to and the albums I create for them. Artfair 2015. And now Artfair 2016. How time flies, and I'm running out of hard drive space!

This year I came with friends M and J. I am quite blessed with friends who like the same shit as I do.

Just as any other time, I come into these situations thinking I will see more than what is. In the end though I feel empty handed, like all I gathered was air. Too many times I am preoccupied with my love of the camera ─ the desire to capture that I forget to really look at something and see.

Or maybe I just needed to have a second look. That works on most things. :3

Forgive me if I don't have the title or name of the artists. I hope somehow these photos will do justice to these amazing works of art.

edit: 03/06/2016. My first upload (from my Ipad) look blurry for some reason. Re-uploads! Something is weird with blogger. :/

xxx Artfair 02.21.16

Another Scale

It's hypnotizing the way a woman's breast curves, this nakedness immortalized on paper. I wonder what it would be like if society has not imprinted in us that such a sight is shameful or embarrasing. When such sight does not evoke lust or sinister thoughts.





I admit I don't have much enthusiasm for other Bencab pieces (matter of preference....*dodges bricks*), not the same way I love his nude drawings. His forms are so natural and beautiful. Now that I think about it, is it my love for Anatomy classes that had me obsessed with the nude form? I remember prowling the halls of the Bencab Museum spending half the time in the Erotica section. haha

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More of his familiar work. Retracing our heritage on paper.

The exhibition presents BenCab’s recreation of his installation done in Bandung, Indonesia in 1998 as a result of his collaboration with other Southeast-Asian artists for a workshop on Urbanisation. The installation is a reflection on urbanization and a critique of present-day environmental dilemmas. -UP Vargas

xxx 01.16