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MUSIC AND ART RENDEZVOUS AT GALERIE JOAQUIN’S "LA MUSIQUE MMVII"
It’s a love affair that has been going on for ages, artists picking up the brush to capture a scene where music plays inspiration in people’s lives. This year, Galerie Joaquin gathers the country’s finest and most celebrated artists for "La Musique MMVII", one of its highly anticipated series of exhibits for art year 2007. The show will feature music in its various representations in over 50 paintings and sculptures.
For "La Musique MMVII", the gallery brings together works from senior artists such as National Artist Arturo Luz, Presidential Medal of Merit Awardees Juvenal Sanso and Federico Aguilar Alcuaz. These are joined by works from internationally and highly renowned auctioned artists Ramon Orlina, Mario Parial, Lydia Velasco, Marcel Antonio, Carlo Magno and Eufemio Rasco IV. Also featured in this annual event are works from Jerry Morada, Bernard Vista, Manny Garibay, Dominic Rubio, Vincent de Pio, Aileen Lanuza, Edwin Tres Reyes, Jovan Benito, Michael Cacnio, Bayani Ray Acala and the Guevarra Group of Artists.
The show opens on Saturday, 7 July 2007, at The Centre and Main Galleries of the Galerie Joaquin Bldg., at 371 P. Guevarra St., cor. Montessori Lane, Addition Hills, San Juan. Tel. 7239253 or 7239418. Website: www.galeriejoaquin.com.
Music Draws Diverse Passions Together
The exhibit’s main theme on music, an influential and binding force in societies and cultures. Galerie Joaquin’s annual La Musique show presents music as whether depicted on canvas or as sculpture expresses the human spirit’s dreams and aspirations, emotions, friendship and brotherhood. Music carries with it personal and collective meanings, significance and memories; it captures the soul of humanity in ways that can words can only hope to aspire. As music and art share one language, the latter aims to convey what musical instruments wish to play. The melodies, expressed this time through suggestions of line, shape, color and texture in the hands of outstanding artists, spring out from the canvas and beyond the frame.
In Lanuza’s "The Lady and the Violin", the instrument stands mutely on her lap, resting and waiting for the bow to brush against its strings. The lady appears like an accomplished young woman, her cool presence in traditional white Maria Clara is set off by the striking red background. Complementing Lanuza’s piece is De Pio’s "The Cellist", lending a contemporary spirit of contained intensity channeled through the stringed instrument. His cellist, with head bowed and eyes closed, is engrossed in the act of shaping a note. Emphatically, even at rest, the cello reverberates with sound.
The strings are bowed and plucked for tributes of admiration and love. Morada’s "Ode to the Tres Marias", depicts the violinist suspended in time and space as the women in the background look on. For love, Rubio’s "Harana sa Parke", brings two men and women together in a nostalgic play of romance. Rubio’s long-necked and graceful characters garbed in their finest clothes in colonial Manila are colored in the saturated and rich hues of ochre and blue, enriching a memory of customs forgotten, when men wooed and women swooned.
In Benito’s cubist rendition of "The Duets", an imagined exchange of melodies and color is spread across the painting. The two colorful and angular figures look at each other’s instrument, sensitive and anticipating the changes in notes so as not to disrupt the chemistry of their melodies. In a livelier and more festive note, Parial’s "The Three Musicians" play their whimsical tunes. Parial’s musicians are covered in unusual patterns bursting in a palette of hot pinks, warm oranges, electric greens and cool blues.
Other musical instruments are part of the wide and interesting repertoire of "La Musique". All artworks lending its presence in one venue are sure to move, entertain, enthrall and excite the art loving public. For whatever purpose it may serve the viewer, La Musique MMVII is sure to leave the spirit fulfilled and enhanced.
Not to miss this marriage of two disciplines, the guests will be serenaded by live performances of the country’s top tenors, sopranos and classical musicians in the exhibit’s opening night at Galerie Joaquin. |
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