While the nation is still navigating the new normal, SM City Marilao launched a capsule exhibit that turns isolation into source of inspiration dubbed as My City, My SM, My Art book launching held at the Mall’s Atrium on Friday.
The exhibit featured a capsule collection from selected My City, My SM, My Art Bulacan artists like Roen Capule, Francis Eugene Andrade, and Focus Bulacan.
“In times of crisis, the role of art becomes more central to people’s lives. People need humanity, expression, and the community that the arts create,” SM City Marilao Assistant Mall Manager Engr. Janette Aguilera said.
She said, bringing people together, inspiring, sharing and embodying resilience are the influences of the art which is emphatically important during the COVID19 pandemic.
“Nagpapasalamat po tayo sa SM City sa paglaan ng suporta sa mga Bulakenyo artists gaya ng paglulunsad ng ganitong programa sa kabila ng kinahaharap na health crisis, kami po sa pamahalaang panlalawigan ay kaagapay ninyo at handa ring sumuporta at itaguyod ang mga Bulacan artists,” said Provincial History, Arts, Culture and Tourism Office Chief Dr. Eliseo Dela Cruz.
This exhibit provide the audience a visual interpretation of the new normal while capturing human experience at a time.
Some of the representational artworks allow audience to process shared quarantine experience; creating illustration about the importance of mental health to seeing the bright side of isolation.
Apart from the capsule collection, SM City Marilao also celebrated the life and works of some of the country’s most fascinating visual artists with the opening of the My City, My SM, My Art book exhibit at the Mall Atrium.Mallgoers have a rare glimpse of the different pages of book at the My Art house, which is inspired by Luzon’s Bahay na Bato.
The larger than life book pages showcased National Artist for Visual Arts Jose Joya, who pioneered abstract expressionism in the Philippines and it also showcased the works of influential master artist, Angelito Antonio and other Bulacan based artists like versatile metal sculptor Roen Capule, paper cut artist Ebony Paguia- Hermogenes, young artists that are part of Bulacan’s vibrant art scene, Rommel ‘Yao’ Sampana and Francis Eugene Andrade, talented book illustrator and painter Juan Nathaniel Rañola III and the province’s premiere photography group, Focus Bulacan: who were all featured in the My Art stop at SM City Marilao in November 2016.
Each section of the My Art House not only highlighted the best of Philippine visual arts but also reminds audience that in times of crisis, art matters.