It’s the end of February and once again, tout le monde is making its way to The Link car park in Makati for Art Fair Philippines.
Participation is de rigueur for local galleries, and despite some significant defections by 10 established galleries, the event has actually grown: there are 61 participating galleries this year, nearly a third of which are foreign. Art Fair Philippines cofounder Lisa Periquet, with sculptures by Joe Geraldo and paintings by Neil PasilanNegros-based printmaker Angela Silva with her cyanotypes. You have to travel more outside Manila, she says, to find art with a different point of view.
“I just wanted people to have fun,” he says. “It’s really a fun place. It looks like a Jetsons skatepark!”Artists from outside Manila have always had a presence in the fair, but 2020 has the most diverse participation yet, with artists and art collectives from Cebu, Palawan, Negros representing the art scenes in their cities.
The trailblazing artists who have paved the way for today’s burgeoning art scene are also represented: sculptor Julie Lluch, painters Justin Nuyda, Onib Olmedo and Jaime de Guzman.
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