PHASED OUT
A group exhibition of BISKEG PANGASINAN ART COLLECTIVE
Early this year, and just before the COVID-19 Lockdown, CANVAS hosted the Biskeg as collective residents of CANVAS’ Artists in Residence (CANVAS AiR) Program for 2020. They proposed to work on collaborative as well as individual pieces that explore the relevance of relics, ancient traditions and aspects of the past that exist or may still affect us today.
PHASED OUT
by BISKEG (Ben John Albino, Denmark Dela Cruz, Boni De Guzman, Rachel Anne Lacaba, Kinoo Padlan, Frenk Sison, Jojit Solano)
Acrylic on Canvas
7x12 feet
Inexplore sa "Phased Out" ang relevance ng mga lumang bagay na nag-eexist pa rin sa kasalukuyan. Mga social issues na minana pa natin sa mga naunang henerasyon. Kadalasa'y puro remedyong panandalian lang ang sagot natin sa mga ito. bahala na lang ba ang susunod na henerasyon? Napakahaba ng listahan at pili lamang ang mga nasusolusyunan. Mabagal ang pagpanaw ng mga luma pero mas mabagal ang pagbangon ng mga kapalit nito. Marahil ang ating sistema at mga remedyo ang nararapat gawing phased out.
Afterparty Del Lyamado
by Ben John Albino
Acrylic on Canvas
36x24 inches
Remedyo Dehado
by Ben John Albino
Acrylic on Canvas
36x24 inches
Sumasalamin ito sa mga patung-patong na mga panandaliang solusyon sa mga habangbuhay na problema.
Magpapanggap na biktima at hahanap ng sisisihin. Magtuturo ng salarin at magkukunwaring bayani na may dalang bagong solusyon. Pipiliing mapunan ang pansariling hanggarin kapalit ng pagkawasak sa mas nakararami. At bawat remedyo ay may kakambal na bagong problema na papatungan ulit ng isa pang remedyo.
Ito ba ang walang tigil na pagikot na gusto nating manahin ng mga susunod na henerasyon?
TIRA TIRA
by Rachel Anne Lacaba
Acrylic on Canvas
24x36 inches
We live in a world where humans act like animals, and animals are more humane than humans.
TUMBA TUMBA
by Boni de Guzman
Acrylic on Canvas
36x24 inches
Isang laruan na pawala na o hindi na nauuso at halos hindi na kilala ng mga kabataan ngayon ito ay napakasayang paglaruan kasama ang mga samot saring mga laruan mga laruang walang kapantay na kasiyahan ang naibibigay at ililipad ka patungo sa mundo ng totoong kasiyahan.
Shibari x Kinbaku
by Kel Cruz
Duct Tape on Canvas
36x24 inches
“Shibari” simply means “to tie”. The contemporary meaning of Shibari describes an ancient Japanese artistic form of rope bondage. The origin of Shibari comes from Hojo-jutsu, the martial art of restraining captives.
In Japan from 1400 to 1700, while the local police and Samurai used Hojo-jutsu as a form of imprisonment and torture, the honor of these ancient Samurai warriors required them to treat their prisoners well. So, they used different techniques to tie their prisoners, showing the honor and status of their captured prisoner.
In the late 1800′s and early 1900′s a new form of erotic Hojo-justu evolved, called Kinbaku, the art of erotic bondage. Today, particularly in the west, the art of erotic bondage is typically called Shibari, which is an art of erotic spirituality, not a martial art.
APEKTADO
by Denmark Dela Cruz
Acrylic on Canvas
36x24 inches
Sa bugso ng kahirapan, apektado ang kalamnan, walang dereksyon ang isipan, mabigat sa ulo ang kahirapan, walang usad sa dereksyon, at madilim ang mga paningin. Sa isang idlap buhay ay mapariwara dahil nawalan na ng lubos ng pag-asa.
Permanente
by Denmark Dela Cruz
Acrylic on Canvas
36x24 inches
Nang dahil sa kahirapan, pilit umuusad ang taong gustong umahon sa kahirapan, ngunit sa kabilang banda hinagpis at pagkawasak ng kalooban. Permanente sa isang walang pag usad at nagbabaga ang pagkawasak ng buhay nang dahil sa masalimoot na kabanata ng buhay.
a price for a warning
by Frenk Sison
Acrylic on Canvas
36x24 inches
MSG mentality
by Frenk Sison
Acrylic on Canvas
24x18 inches
The world is full of surprises as we know. The events, moments, phenomena, the believable and the unbelievable; but as we see life as it is, there is always a warning for us to value and yet majority of us tend to ignore those signs. We always seek a price on everything but never for a greater reward of understanding humanity. This year of pandemic, as we struggle to survive, we are also witnessing the obvious that once ignored. This hard time which made maybe from greed, envy, wrath, and evil should remind us that there is no price to look at the warnings.
NOT A PAUPER’S KIND OF QUARANTINE
by Kathrina Ragadi
Mixed Media on Canvas
36x24 inches
I am learning a lot about other people lately. It’s really wild to witness the stances people are taking these few months. The pandemics has unearthed the best and worst in us, in many ways.
It’s been the great revealer, pulling the curtain back on class divide, exposing how deep the fissures are. The past few weeks have exposed just how much a person’s risk of infection hinges on class.
It’s very sad that “SELF ISOLATION is AN ECONOMIC LUXURY”. It’s too easy to say “STAY AT HOME” when you all have the food to eat. You won’t get bored because you have Netflix and Chill.
Pandemics tend to illuminate and reinforce existing schisms. Note the division between those of us who can keep our jobs and work from home, and others who are losing their jobs or confronting the dangers of the virus.
Class differences in a time of global quarantine are amplified and made more rigid. The small minority that is the rich passes temporary isolation in comfort. The middle class remain sheltered in place. Many of them continue to work, if often at diminished capacity. And finally, there is the working class, who cannot remain at home, but must risk their lives in order to earn their daily bread.
Are we really all in this together? Should we not use this moment as an opportunity to take a hard look at the broken systems that perpetuate inequality: education, health coverage, distribution of opportunity and wealth, to name a few?
PAGTangis ni inang kalikasan
by Jeffrey Somera
Acrylic on Canvas
36x24 inches
Dos mil bente taong sumubok sa ating katatagan. Di lang sa usapin pangkalusugan ganun din sa ating kalikasan. Kalikasan na nababalahura dahil sa ating kagagawan. Sino nga ba ang tunay na may sala? Kasakiman sa salapi lang ba ang dahilan o kawalang disiplina ng naturingang pinakamatalinong nilalang? Sumasalamin sa atin ang ating kapaligiran naway di ka isang balahura sa iyong sariling pamayanan. Pagtangis ni inang kalikasan iyo bang ramdam o nabulag ka nang tuluyan sa iyong sariling kasakiman?
ANG MAPAGLINLANG NA DRAGON
by Edmundo "Edz" Calimlim Jr.
Acrylic on Canvas
36x24 inches
Sa tumitinding usapin ng agawan sa teritoryo sa West PH Sea at sa unti-unting pagpayag ng pamahalaan ng Pilipinas na pumasok sa ekonomiya at mga pag aaral ang bansang Tsina ay hindi maiiwasan ang pagkabahala na baka unti-unti na rin tayong nagpapasakop sa mga Tsino.
Ganun pa man hindi pa rin tayo magpapatalo bagkus patuloy na ipaglalaban ang yamang talagang atin.
DROPLETS
by Jojit Solano
Acrylic on Canvas
24x36 inches
In a blink of an eye the world has change dramatically. A rare disaster has resulted a tragically large number of human in lives being lost.
In just a droplets virus spread like a wildfire and infect humanity.
In just a droplets the world economy collapse.
In just a droplets our world stop.
FOOLISH FOOL
by Kevin Vila
Acrylic on Canvas
24x24 inches
Kwento eto ng pagpili sa kung anu ang mas nakakabuti ngunit may kapalit etong sakit.
MOST FAMILIAR STRANGER
by Kinoo Padlan
Acrylic on Canvas
24x18 inches
We don’t listen to the true value of our gifts. Before we can fully appreciate them, we must endure many years of adventures and misadventures in our journey. As we grow older, we slowly realizes that our life is caught up in a web of connections far deeper than we had at first presumed.
Pm pm na lang muna
by Mel Casipit
Acrylic on Canvas
36x24 inches
We are now living at a different time, where it is not uncommon to stay at home and isolate. The government and medical personnel highly encourage it to prevent the spread of the virus.
We connect to others via technology. We use social media apps specifically to communicate with our friends and family. We use apps to order food, pay rent and do banking. Some use apps to play games to pass the time until everything is back to normal.
Sinagem
by BISKEG (Ben John Albino, Denmark Dela Cruz, Boni De Guzman, Rachel Anne Lacaba, Kinoo Padlan, Frenk Sison, Jojit Solano and Kevin Vila)
Acrylic on Canvas
4x6 feet
Ang ibig sabihin ng sinagem sa Pangasinan ay masaklap na sinapit, masaklap na pinagdaanan, o masaklap na nangyayari.