Ateneo Art Awards 2018 shortlist announced
The Ateneo Art Gallery, with its partner institutions, continues to give recognition to contemporary artists and art writers through the annual Ateneo Art Awards (AAA). In a media launch held at The Grand Atrium of Shangri-la Plaza, the Ateneo Art Gallery presented the shortlisted visual artists and writers for the Ateneo Art Awards 2018 – Fernando Zobel Prizes for Visual Art and the Ateneo Art Awards 2018 – Purita Kalaw – Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism.
Ateneo Art Awards 2018 – Fernando Zobel Prizes for Visual Art
This year’s shortlist of 12 exhibitions was determined from a total of 89 nominations sent by various artists, curators, local gallery and museum directors, art critics, and art educators residing in the Philippines. A panel of jurors will select three (3) winners who are eligible to be invited to an international artist residency grants at Ateneo Art Gallery’s partner institutions namely: La Trobe Art Institute in Bendigo, Australia, Artesan Gallery + Studio in Singapore, and Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom.
This year the Ateneo Art Gallery welcomes the Embassy of Italy as a new partner for the Ateneo Art Awards – Fernando Zobel Prizes for Visual Arts. In line with the Embassy’s program to compile a collection of Philippine contemporary art, the Ambassador Giorgio Guglielmino will select one among the 12 listed shortlisted artists as recepient of the Ateneo Art Awards- Embassy of Italy Purchase Prize. This program provides the Ateneo Art Awards a new incentive to promote Philippine contemporary artists.
In alphabetical order, the 12 shortlisted artists for the Ateneo Art Awards 2018- Fernando Zobel Prizes for Visual Art are:
- Mars Bugaoan – Becoming (Artinformal)
- Bea Camacho – Memento Obliviscere (MO_space)
- Ronson Culibrina – Talim (Blanc Gallery)
- Dina Gadia – Situation Amongst the Furnishings (Silverens)
- Johanna Helmuth – Makeshift (Blanc Gallery)
- Ian Carlo Jaucian – Viral Automata (1335 Mabini)
- Kolown – Low Pressured Area (Cultural Center of the Philippines)
- Robert Langenegger – Only Dog Can Judge Me (MO_Space)
- Issay Rodriguez - … (Silverlens)
- Ciron Señeres – Gray Horizon (Cultural Center of the Philippines)
- Jel Suarez – Traces by Which We Remember (West Gallery)
- Elias Miles Villanueva – What’s Left of It (Pinto Art Museum)
Ateneo Art Awards 2018 – Purita Kalaw –Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism
The Ateneo Art Award- Purita Kalaw- Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism was established in honor of art writer and Art Association of the Philippines founder, Purita Kalaw- Ledesma. With an aim to put art criticism into the public sphere, the Ateneo Art Gallery in partnership with the Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation will chose 2 winners who will each contribute to The Philippine Star and ArtAsiaPacific Magazine.
The winner for the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize- The Philippine Star will be awarded a regular column under “Platforms” in the Arts and Culture section of the newspaper, to be published twice a month or a total of 24 articles while the recipient of the Purita Kalaw- Ledesma ArtAsiaPacific Magazine will contribute a total of 6 articles for a year to the said bi-monthly publication.
In alphabetical order, the 6 shortlisted writers and special citation for the Ateneo Art Award 2018- Purita Kalaw- Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism are:
- Alec Madelene Abarro - An Organized Chaos: Navigating the Looban (On Urban Labyrinth at the Ayala Museum)
- Juan Paolo Colet – Life in the Labyrinth (On Urban Labyrinth at the Ayala Museum)
- Jayvee Del Rosario – Ossifying the Abstract (On Alfonso Ossorio: A Survey 1940 – 1989 at the Ayala Museum)
- Mary Jessel Duque- Pacita Abad: A Million Times a Woman, an Artist (On Pacita Abad: A Millions Things to Say at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design:
- Sabrina Jeongco – Pacita Abad Has a Million Things to Say (On Pacita Abad: A Million Things to Say at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design)
- Jose Carlos Joaquin Singson - Bread and Circuses in Time Roiling and Churning (On Vic Delotavo: Posters for Philippine Cinema at the Vargas Museum)
Special Citation:
- Maria Lourdes Garcellano - Sinehan sa isang museo: Karatula O Obra? (On Vic Delotavo: Posters for Philippine Cinema at the Vargas Museum)
The Ateneo Art Awards is co-presented by Ateneo Art Gallery, Shangri-la Plaza and Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation; in partnership with Areté, The Philippine Star, ArtAsiaPacific Magazine, Artesan Gallery + Studio, La Trobe Art Institute, Liverpool Hope University, Metro Society, YStyle, the Embassy of Italy and the Embassy of Spain.
