Pintô Manhattan Manila October 4, 2018 Franklin St, New York An exhibition to benefit the Asian Cultural Council and Pintô Art Museum Pintô Manhattan Manila 2 Pintô Manhattan Manila Catalog Artists Produced by Text Aba Lluch Dalena Jigger Cruz. Pintô International Luca Parolari Agnes Arellano Jim Orencio Pintô Art Museum Carlomar Daoana Alfredo Esquillo & Anthony Victoria Johanna Helmuth Anthony Palomo JP Duray Initiative by Photography Antipas Delotavo Julius Redillas Pintô International At Maculangan Anton Del Castillo Keiye Miranda Pintô Art Museum Antonio Leano Lec Cruz Asian Cultural Council Graphic Design Arturo Sanchez Lynyrd Paras Trisha Tan Bernardo Pacquing Mark Andy Garcia Curated by Cian Dayrit Miles Villanueva Antonio Leaño Cover Image Cris Villanueva Miquel Miro “Connecting Leaves, Connecting Lives” by Raffy Napay Dexter Sy Raffy Napay Special thanks Elmer Borlongan Renato Habulan Alta Fairs & Exhibits Edition Emmanuel Garibay Reynaldo Samson Luca Parolari Ferdie Montemayor Riel Hilario Contact Gino Bueza Ronald Ventura Pintô International Print Ian Quirante Ryan Villamael 431 East 12th Street (Suite 5B) Terrapin Stationers Igan D’Bayan Wesley Valenzuela New York, NY, 10009 Jana Benitez Winner Jumalon Jason Montinola Wire Tuazon Email: [email protected] Jay Virina Yasmin Sison Instagram: @pinto.art Jayson Oliveria Zean Cabangis JC Jacinto Pintô International Pintô Manhattan – One Year Later Manila 2 Luca Parolari, MD Carlomar Daoana, MA Director at Pintô International Curator and Lecturer at Ateneo de Manila University “Pintô Manhattan Manila 2” will be the third pop-up exhibition of electric cellist, a violinist, two jazz bands, and pop music producers, Pintô International, in partnership with the Asian Cultural Council, Pintô International, after Pintô Manhattan Manila in May 2017, and amongst others. In the spirit of sharing and contributing, like in all proudly presents Pinto Manhattan Manila 2, a gathering of the Pintôkyo in June 2018. Opening on October 4, 2018, PMM2 will run good families, all our guests talked and performed pro bono. In a way, works of some of the most exciting Filipino artists working today. for two weeks in TriBeCa, at 74 Franklin Street. Once again, Pintô will what we are trying to achieve with Pintô NYC is reminiscent of the The word “gathering” is foregrounded to highlight the exhibition’s bring more than 40 of the best Philippine contemporary artists to the origins of Pintô itself. From the vernacular Tagalog, pintô (= door) social dimension and how the works may serve as a jump-off point Big Apple to continue its program of promotion of Southeast Asian represents first and foremost a philosophy of sharing friendships, for a possible conversation on contemporary artistic production in contemporary art and fostering of cultural diplomacy between Asia, culture, art, that Dr. Cuanang initiated in the hills overlooking the Philippines. and the US and Europe. David and Susan Rockefeller, Ambassador Manila 30 years ago. Then an early-career rising star in the medical Teodoro and Louie Locsin, Dr. Joven Cuanang, Dr. Luca Parolari field, he took to support the dreams and passion of a group of fine art These artists, some of whom will be present in New York in the and curator Antonio Leano are hosting New York’s art cognoscenti students that would visit his hideaway home’s gardens for drawing duration of the exhibition, are some of the most active practitioners and friends for a benefit art exhibition that will raise funds for the sessions and ice tea on Sunday afternoons; from there, it was in the field, defining the probable vectors of Philippine visual arts Asian Cultural Council and Pintô Art Museum foundation. Here’s an only natural for Dr. Cuanang to transform his downtown Manila’s and offering new narratives with regard to the role of the artist in update on what Pintô International has evolved into since its launch apartment in what became “The” art gallery of the new generation the second decade of the millennium. For the artists, as much as 18 months ago. of artists, and eventually open the “door” (quite literally) of his they are makers of objects and performers of sensibilities, are also house, gardens and collection to the public with the institution of interlocutors of their milieu, providing the vital and urgent images Since Pintô Manhattan Manila, our launch exhibition last year, Pintô the Pintô Art Museum. In the humbling attempt of following in with which the future may be imagined and made possible. International evolved quite a bit. Following the show, we made our these footsteps, the Pintô NYC family is growing a strong and solid goal not to became one of the by-passing meteors of New York City’s community of art and culture lovers. In addition to the cultural salon This future is certainly anchored in hope, and if we are to speculate art scene, and we decided to dedicate our energies to a new project program, Pintô NYC will soon announce a line-up of 10 solo shows on the shape of things to come, it seems that a pluralistic, inclusive that would root our presence in the world’s art capital: opening a and small group exhibitions for the next 3 years, curated by local spirit is being ascertained. As this exhibition reveals, the concerns permanent NY exhibition space. This space would serve us as a New York art scholars, which will combine Filipino and American of the featured artists exemplify fidelity to a wide range of subjects base to organize art shows and cultural events, with the mission artists to continue Pintô’s mission of fostering the artistic dialogue and themes. A few map out the topography of the archipelago in of giving a solid local platform to Southeast Asian and Philippine between the two worlds. These shows will complement the line-up of its plenitude and diversity. One of them revises the very nature contemporary art, and to create a community that believes in international pop-up exhibition that started with Pintô Manhattan of cartography as a way to recapture the narrative from colonial common ideals and aspirations. Pintô NYC, our gallery-apartment in Manila in May 2017 in New York, continued with Pintôkyo in June powers. Some have delved into the genre of portraiture to the East Village, is an alternative home to a growing group of friends, 2018 in Japan, and arrive to Pintô Manhattan Manila 2 today. Next incorporate and/or interrogate religious iconography as well as the who come and gather twice a month for a cultural program of events steps: Milan in May 2019, San Sebastian in October 2019 and London symbols of Western art itself. that include a wine tasting, a talk and a performance. At these in the Spring of 2020. “Pintô Sessions” are discussed some of the most varied and current Most of the artists work in the painting tradition, and the topics of our times, expanding beyond contemporary art and the In early 2017 I found myself scraping together memories of past dominance of the medium may rely on the descriptive power Philippines. Amongst the speakers that came since our first night in travels to tell the serendipitous story that brought me from the of imagery to render visible and intelligible the quiet yearnings late January 2018, we were lucky to host two Pulitzer Prize-awarded medical school wards of Boston to the rice fields of the rural toward a definition of a community. Some of them, transgressing reporters, two major New York Times editors and photographers, an Philippines, from meeting my dearest friend and manong (“elder the parameters of the canvas, blast open the material and Artificial Intelligence expert and book author, NPR reporters and brother”) Dr. Joven Cuanang to becoming an ambassador of conceptual space to negotiate the fragmentation of contemporary podcasters, immigration lawyers, Cornell University physicians, Philippine contemporary art as an Italian physician in New York. life. The sculptors, on the other hand, propose new bodies—and by Vogue Magazine editors, the founders of a virtual reality startup, Like then, sitting in front of a screen and looking back at the curious extension, new experiences—that are reflective of the variables of a Fulbright linguist, etc. Amongst the performers we were joined events that unraveled to take me here, I can’t help but wonder where identity. At their most compelling, these works restore our belief in by Grammy winner musicians, a Cirque du Soleil contortionist, a Pintô International and we will be next time I will be asked to write the allegory of the journey of the self embedded within a world that magician, an array of New York stand-up comedians, Julliard ballet a few thoughts to introduce our next show’s catalog. Meanwhile, let is volatile, complex, and ever-expanding. dancers, contemporary art performers, flamenco guitar players, an us enjoy this beautiful new adventure. Mabuhay! 6 7 Artworks Agnes Arellano Alfredo Esquillo & Anton Del Castillo b. 1949 Anthony Victoria b. 1976 b. 1972 Ancestral Transmutation Yumamot (weary) 2018 (from the Goddess Revisited) Salamin Series, #17 2007 2018 Fiberglass resin Bronze Oil & etching on aluminum Variable size Variable size 48 × 36 inch The sacred and the mythical, the physical Regarded as continuing the legacy of the He earned both his Bachelor and Master of and the erotic, the magical and the mundane, Social Realists, Esquillo’s paintings executed Fine Arts from the University of the Philippines the religious and the profane, and music and in figurative realism expose the paradoxes, and trained as a restorer under the National song all permeate the art of Agnes Arellano. ironies and contradictions of Philippine social Museum of the Philippines. He won the Grand Drawing from rich personal experience and an life. His art interrogates Filipino identity, and Prize in oil category of the 2003 Metrobank extraordinary range of influences, she makes attempts to capture its hybrid character by Foundation Young Painters Competition, some of the most dramatic art in Asia.