Contemporary Artists at the About Face Exhibit held at the Lopez Museum
I’m not really fun of art because I do have preferential attention to music yet I fall short with my expectations when I was invited at the opening of the exhibit entitled About Face at the Lopez Memorial Museum last June 2, 2011. “ About Face touches on the practice of portraiture but is not solely about pictures of proposed selves. In a broader sense, the exhibition is about facades - human and institutional - what we pose up from for others to come to know us through. Since the face is usually the most immediate registration of a sense of self before public, we also attempt here to see much more limited sense, About Face can also be constructed as an allusion to reversals - forsaken positions, turns of fate, refusals of portrayals, frontal confrontations, acts of concealment, inversions of the seen and unseen.” The exhibit featured works of Juan Luna, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, Fabian de la Rosa, Vicente Manansala, Juvenal Sanso, Fernando A...