Artists’ Talk: Alwin Reamillo and Gerardo Tan on Luna and Hidalgo

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PUBLISHED ON June 27, 2007 AT 3:45 PM

That 19th century Philippine masters Juan Luna and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo have iconic status in Philippine art history is accepted by Filipinos. To discuss the significance of Luna and Hidalgo to them as artists and in their artmaking, the Lopez Memorial Museum and the Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Inc have invited artists Alwin Reamillo and Gerardo Tan.

In their most recent works, Reamillo and Tan have poached, parodied, animated works of these 19th century Philippine masters. The discussion will also go into why Reamillo and Tan have done so and how. Their thoughts on the valuation of art and their reactions to their works being poached will also be dealt with.

Both Reamillo and Tan are graduates of the UP College of Fine Arts and 13 Artist awardees. Their works are part of the Lopez Museum’s “Dime A Dozen “exhibit which will run until September 22, 2007.

The lecture is part of the Stories on Philippine Art series which aims to create more awareness of various personalities, art forms and practices. Lecture fee is P50 for students with valid ID, P100 for Museum Foundation members and P150 for non-members. The Lopez Memorial Museum is at ground floor Benpres Building, Exchange Road corner Meralco Avenue, Pasig City. For info, contact 631-2417 or 404-2865 or email pezseum@skyinet.net

About Dime a Dozen at the Lopez Memorial Museum

How does an artifact, a motif, a fetish make the jump from elite item to kitschy icon? And are they able to make the journey back in reverse? Taken in light of de rigueur museum merchandising practice and the casual crossing over among media platforms, this exhibition attempts to map the journey of cultural objects across social strata and across trendy crosscurrents and channels. Positing that psychological and ultimately discriminatory divides are fluid (made and constructed) and largely temporal constructions, the exhibit Dime A Dozen hypothesizes on how rarities propped up as fine and precious easily slip into the domain of pop and the banal — rarely able to regain pristine cult status in their original form.

Curated by Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, contemporary object-maker artists – Gerardo Tan, Alwin Reamillo and Tad Ermitaño - worked in a variety of media to virtually take iconic Lopez Museum pieces particularly 19th Filipino masters Juan Luna and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo on this potentially perilous journey, perhaps yielding some very necessary revelations.

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Artists’ Talk: Alwin Reamillo and Gerardo Tan on Luna and Hidalgo

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