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Art at the Shang: Saturday group exhibit

Was surprised to see a Hermes painting while going up the escalator in Shangri-la Mall yesterday…

Turns out there’s an art exhibit of the Saturday Group of Artists until July 26 (two Mondays from now). What a lovely pick-me-upper in the middle of a mall!

Was also so happy to see this piece by Migs Villanueva, who was such a patient writing mentor for our group of fiction-writing babies in 2005…(indulge me– I wrote a piece that got published then!).  Migs invited us to her first (?) painting exhibit a few years after that, but it was a nice surprise yesterday to see that she’s still at it, and exploring new themes:

There was also a Blanco! I didn’t recognize the first name from the Blanco kids I saw in the Angono museum, maybe it’s by one of the grandkids?

Lovely fantastical images…

Am glad that Filipino art is made more accessible to Pinoys today, most of whom find more reason to frequent malls than museums…

Coming in a few weeks is the 2nd Annual Manila Art Fair, which is a bigger (and hopefully just as successful) sequel to last year’s Manila Art09 “Asia’s Latest Contemporary Art Fair”!  Yahooo, excited for that!!

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Art at the Shang is an exhibition of the Saturday Group of Artists at the Grand Atrium, Shangri-la Plaza. It runs from July 14 to 26, 2010.