Lopez Museum Talk: About Face Exhibit

     I know this is late but  Last July 16  Lopez Museum invited contemporary artists to do a talk and answer some questions as a part of their most recent exhibit, About Facefor the museum’s 150th birth commemoration of Dr. Jose Rizal. There were four contemporary artists that participated including, Alvin Zafra, Renan Ortiz, Louie Talents and Vermont Coronel and each of them shared about their lives like how they have started, the struggles they faced and how their artworks developed or evolved ever since they have started doing art. 

 During the open forum:

L-R: Talents (Cauterizing), Vernon (Street Art), Ortiz (Rizal Portrait at the front of the museum), Zafra (Bullet Portraits)

 Their artworks for the About Face Exhibit:

Ortiz

You can see Rizal's reflection below.

 

Coronel

The stencil he used for the old mans portrait below it's made out of used elction poster

 Talents

Foreign bible's when he was studying in Europe

He burned the letters and left the ones that can spell his name which was Louie.

This is called cauterizing where in he uses match sticks or cigarette butts to burn the letter and words

Zafra

He used his nails to make this portrait of Emelda Marcos.

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     Each of them had different art techniques and styles that they use in doing their art. What’s really interesting is that some of their techniques are really different that people especially who don’t follow art trends wouldn’t think that these artworks or styles would be considered art like bullet portraits, graffiti or street ar and Bible burning or cauterizing. 

         If you have time it's a must to see their artworks as well as the other artworks in the museum. The exhibit can be found at the Lopez Museum that's located at the Benpress Building near Philippine Stock Exchange in Ortigas.