Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan’s art plan “The Left Wing Project” : 2018.07.21 - 10.10  in Lasalle College of the Arts

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 Artist Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan’s art plan “The Left Wing Project” recently is show on the exhibition, “Two Houses: Politics and Histories in the Contemporary Art Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Chia and Mr. Yeap.”　
This exhibition explores themes of civic life—social justice, labour politics, human rights and nationhood—through 40 works or groups of works made by 35 artists between 1986 and 2018. A fully illustrated catalogue contains texts by 19 authors.
　　
Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan display the gigantic bird wing made by hand-forged sickles, sharp sickles form a contrast to the soft wing, and the risk balance of the two reflect Philippines’ complex reality in modern agricultural society. 
This eye-catching exhibition“Two Houses”comes to Taiwan this year. Started from this early year, Nunu Fine Art had cooperated with artist Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan, and Nunu Fine Art became the base camp of The Left Wing Project.”By collecting the used secondhand sickles, the artists take these objects filled with emotions and local memories to reflect the current situations of the lands in Taiwan as well as the difficulties faced the Taiwanese farmers. Through such opportunity, we also seek to fulfill our obligation to our society, and reveal our concern towards our agricultural issues. 

Ateneo Art Awards in the Philippines : Ronson Culibrina, Johanna Helmuth, and Ciron Señeres were three of the shortlist artists.

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Ateneo Art Awards, the most prestigious prize for emerging artists in the Philippines, recently published their 2018 Ateneo Art Awards shortlist of visual art. Ronson Culibrina, Johanna Helmuth, and Ciron Señeres were three of the shortlist artists and have been cooperated with Nunu Fine Art. While sharing this great news with all of you, we also hope to introduce more creations of these three artists here at Nunu Fine Art!
　　
Located at the Arts Wing of Areté, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Ateneo Art Gallery is recognized today as the first museum of Philippine modern art. Starting from Fernando Zóbel’s collection of works by key Filipino post war artists, Ateneo Art Gallery followed the step of art movement to collect a series of artworks in the post war era. From neo-realism, abstract expressionism to today’s post-modern hybrid art, Ateneo Art Gallery presents the art movement periods with their rich collection, and is regarded as the indicator and spearhead of Philippine contemporary art.
　　
To support young artists and encourage the development of contemporary art, Ateneo Art Gallery had regularly held Ateneo Art Awards once a year since 2004. Ateneo Art Awards is now recognized as the most important and representative art award in Philippine.
　　　　
Ateneo Art Awards
http://ateneoartgallery.org/ateneo-art-awards/
　　
artworks
Ronson Culibrina，〈Cross-Breed〉，2017，Oil on canvas｜120x120 cm｜47x47 inches
　　
Johanna Helmuth，〈Resting Bride〉，2017，Oil on canvas｜100x100 cm｜39.3x39.4 inches
　　
Ciron Señeres，〈Connect to Cut〉，2017，Oil on canvas｜122x153 cm｜48 x 60 inches

Morgan O’Hara’s “LIVE TRANMISSION in Taiwan” limited edition catalogs now on view at Hong Kong Book Fair

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American performance artist Morgan O’Hara’s catalog “LIVE TRANSMISSION in Taiwan,” published in limited edition by Nunu Fine Art, will be displayed at 3F-F04 at 2018 Hong Kong Book Fair. The 29th Hong Kong Book Fair hosted by HKTDC is held during July 18-24 at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre while attracting 39 countries and 680 exhibitors to take part in.On the theme, “Romance Literature”, Hong Kong Book Fair holds about 310 activities that allow readers to savor the exquisite writings and emotional burst in literatures, and enjoy the fun of reading while soaking in the magic of words.
　　
Born and works in Los Angeles, US, Morgan O’Hara is proficient at capturing the happening and the existence of things with bold pencil strokes. She portraits instant movements that are hard to notice with our naked eye vividly onto papers with continuous lines. In 2017, Nunu Fine Art invited O’Hara to create a series of works in Taiwan and published her catalog “LIVE TRANSMISSION in Taiwan” in limited edition. This catalogs embodied her life observation in Taiwan. Aside from her creations based on local images such as Taiwan’s factories, fields, and vendors, the catalog also recorded her quick sketch made in the event “Morgan O'Hara Live Transmission: Friday Night Kitchen” held at Nunu Fine Art. O’Hara considered her artwork “Live Transmission in Taiwan” as a record of time that presents life through her unique language formed between Concrete and Abstract expressions.
　　
Morgan O’Hara’s creations stemmed from transformative lines have also extended to her writing project today. Since the inauguration ceremony of Trump in July 2017, O'Hara has launched a monthly held "Handwriting the Constitution" campaign. Through the writing of the Constitution, she applied the writing that used to be part of her personal creation, and extended it into an artistic social practice with the participation of the general public. Morgan O’Hara believes that people can create identity and form connection with the words and contents by handwriting, and even find moving or thought-provoking context that they have never noticed. She hopes to encourage the public to read in details by transcribing words, and in turn arouse the awareness of American citizenship and human rights.
 

Ari Bayuaji's New Residiency Invited by the Symposium international d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul

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Invited by Symposium internationald'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in Quebec, Canada, artist Ari Bayuaji is participating in another one-month residency from July 27 to August 28 with new works and art forums produced together with other eleven artists coming from America, Canada, and Europe.
　　　
Each year, the Symposium invites twelve artists from different countries, generations and from various disciplines to create artworks on a chosen theme. In the meantime, events like art studios and art conferences also take place to provide platforms where the artists, art critics, and curators can exchange ideas on culture and art. With the 36th project being held, the Symposium has attracted more than 500 creators from Europe, the United States, Asia and Africa to participate, including renown contemporary artists such as Raymonde April, René Derouin, Marc Séguin, and Françoise Sullivan. The theme of the Symposium in 2018 is “Art and Politics,” based on which the invited artists will discuss issues regarding Political turmoil, climate changes, gender equality, social inclusion and so on by using their intuitive and keen insights to reveal the relationships between art and politics.
　　　　
During this residency, Ari Bayuaji plans to create installation works that imitate “doors”, with drawings, paintings and original door parts collected from various places poetically attached to three panels. Growing up in a country where doors not only stand for protection and security, but are also reminders of politeness and manners for people would have to bow and bend down when entering another’s houses, Bayuaji takes the images of doors as his approach to deliver the concept of adaptation in this politically unstable world. Seeing doors as a symbol for the connection among people, opposite to walls that divide and set boundaries, the artist creates doors to focus on the brighter side of immigration while illuminating the many challenges people have to face before they find a haven safety. With his proficiency in revealing cross-cultural phenomena while embracing diversity, Bayuaji seeks to open up discussions on important global issues through his works of art.

Ari Bayuaji's Installation Work Collected by Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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〈寂靜｜Silence〉, 2014，木頭、壓克力顏料、透明掛線｜Wood, acrylic paint, transparent thread, 尺寸依空間調整｜Size variable                 （圖片來源：阿里・貝瓦吉網站 Photo Credit: Ari Bayuaji‘s website）

Silence, 2014, Wood, acrylic paint, transparent thread, size variable                 

Photo Credit: Ari Bayuaji‘s website

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Montreal Museum of Fine Art (MMFA) has launched their new project “Collections, Connexions et Reconnexions” as an open call for contemporary creations along with exhibitions presenting seven commissioned works to the public. Among the seven artists commissioned by MMFA, Ari Bayuaji was recognized for being an artistic representative of culture diversity, and will display his commissioned work as a solo show simultaneously held with the event. Seven works brought by these artists will take inspirations from the collections of the MMFA, and be dedicated to the cultures of the world. The exhibition will be opened on September 6, 2018 and will stay in the exhibition space until the 'New World Pavilion' is ready in summer 2019.
 
Being one of the seven, Ari Bayuaji is invited to present his installation work “Silence” in the solo show. The amazing work composed of 1400 pieces of wood, coated inacrylic paint of different colors and suspended from the ceiling, was commissioned firstly by The Esplanade Theatre by The Bay Singapore in 2014 for the International Sacred Music Festival. This installation work has recently been collected by the MMFA, and will be displayed during the “Collections, Connexions et Reconnexions” show with the old artefacts as part of the museum permanent collection.

Lin Tianmioa’s solo exhibition at Rockbund Art Museum

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(圖片來源Photo Credit：上海外灘美術館Rockbund Art Museum)

(Photo Credit: Rockbund Art Museum)

From June 26 to August 26, 2018, Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) will proudly host “Systems”, Chinese contemporary artist Lin Tianmioa’s first solo exhibition in Shanghai city. The show is curated by Alexandra Munroe, the Samsung Senior Curator, Asian Art and Senior Advisor, Global Arts, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

In the early 1990s, as one of the first female Chinese artists tackling installation and video production, Lin Tianmiao continually tried out various creative media. Through materials redolent of the traces and symbolism of feminine life, such as needles, cotton, threads, silk and fabric—materials which she worked over—the artist wrapped everyday objects and enveloped them, thereby also displaying her care for and reflections about everyday life and traditional handicrafts. With such exceptional imagination and perspective, she formed a distinctive, sensitive, and exquisite personal style. 

Taken inspiration from the human body, “Systems” examines, exposes and reimagines the workings of the self in relation to shifting social and technological realities.The exhibition consists of four key concepts: “individual consciousness”, “collective consciousness”, “public consciousness”, and “ultimate consciousness”. With each concept corresponding to a floor in the museum, going from the second floor of the museum all the way to the sixth floor will embark visitors on a psychological and sensorial journey of “consciousness”. Works shown cover representative installation works from her twenty years’ of creative practice, together with several large-scale, interactive installations which the artist has created since 2017 but has never shown to the public. Manuscripts of archival significance will also be exhibited at the same time.