{"id":17752,"date":"2018-08-15T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T00:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/?p=17752"},"modified":"2018-08-15T13:42:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T05:42:55","slug":"meanderings-an-exhibition-of-the-beauty-and-fragility-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2018\/08\/15\/meanderings-an-exhibition-of-the-beauty-and-fragility-of-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanderings: An Exhibition of The Beauty and Fragility Of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">See the environmental advocacy and<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0beauty of the landscape that lies in the paintings of visual artist, <strong>Jim Orencio,<\/strong> on his<strong> 25th solo exhibition<\/strong> called <strong>MEANDERINGS<\/strong> this<strong>\u00a0August 16 to August 30, 2018.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17754\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/08\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This August, discover a different touch of paradise as <strong>ArtistSpace<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Ayala Museum<\/strong> and <strong>Pinto Art Museum<\/strong> brings us an exhibit that mirrors both the beauty and fragility of nature and the need to preserve and protect it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the nine works that constitute the exhibition, the landscape is energized by the <em>\u201cmeanderings\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of streams and waterways as they negotiate through the stones and undergrowth, carving their\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">own paths and injecting an element of motion in an otherwise still composition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"898\" height=\"562\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17758\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/08\/Jim-Orencio_Golden-Moment.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/08\/Jim-Orencio_Golden-Moment.jpg 898w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/08\/Jim-Orencio_Golden-Moment-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/08\/Jim-Orencio_Golden-Moment-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 898px) 100vw, 898px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Captured at different times of day\u2014as a nod to the impressionists whose emphasis was on\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">light\u2014the landscape is suggested as pure and pristine, bereft of human presence and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">intervention.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But\u00a0what lies behind are the shadowed\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">looming threat such as\u00a0<em>kaingin<\/em>, or slash-and-burn method, which are still being practiced in the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through his\u00a0works, Orencio aims to simultaneously warn and advocate people the beauty and danger of the landscape.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>About the Artist<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17755\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/08\/Photo-of-Jim-Orencio.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/08\/Photo-of-Jim-Orencio.jpg 960w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/08\/Photo-of-Jim-Orencio-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/08\/Photo-of-Jim-Orencio-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/08\/Photo-of-Jim-Orencio-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based in Antipolo City, Rizal, <strong>Jim Orencio<\/strong> is best known in the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Philippine art scene as a masterful artist of landscapes. His work has since diverged into\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">abstraction, collage and lyrical figurative paintings of Filipiniana but landscape painting has\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">always been a constant. In the recent years, he especially emphasized the genre of landscape as\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">an exemplary action parallel to his ecological advocacy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Catch his 25th solo\u00a0exhibition called <strong>MEANDERINGS<\/strong>\u00a0at the <strong>ArtistSpace<\/strong> from <strong>August 16 to 30, 2018<\/strong> with an Artist\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reception on August 16, 2018. ArtistSpace is located at the <strong>Ayala Museum Annex, Ground Level,\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Makati Avenue corner De La Rosa Street, Makati City<\/strong> and is open from <strong>Mondays to Sundays, 10 a.m.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>\u00a0to 7 p.m<\/strong>. Admission is <strong>free.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information, please call <strong>Jane Salvador<\/strong> at <strong>(02) 759-8288<\/strong>\u00a0or email\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>artistspace@ayalamuseum.org<\/strong>, or contact Jenny Villanueva via email at <strong>pintoartmuseum@yahoo.com or call\u00a0<\/strong><strong>(63)\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong>927-764-5270.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What:\u00a0<\/strong>Meanderings by Jim Orencio<strong><br \/>\nWhen:\u00a0<\/strong>August 16 to 30, 2018<strong><br \/>\nWhere:\u00a0<\/strong>ArtistSpace,\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ayala Museum Annex, Ground Level,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Makati Avenue corner De La Rosa Street, Makati City<\/span><strong><br \/>\nFacebook:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/artistspacegallery\/\">artistspacegallery<\/a><strong><br \/>\nWebsite:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayalamuseum.org\/\">ayalamuseum.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This is a press release. Minor edits were made prior to publishing.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the environmental advocacy and beauty of the landscape that lies in the paintings of visual artist, Jim Orencio, on his 25th solo exhibition called MEANDERINGS this August 16 to August 30, 2018. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,154],"tags":[2609,1664,4382,5736,5735,5737],"class_list":["post-17752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-makati","category-makati-avenue","tag-artist-space","tag-ayala-museum","tag-ayala-museum-artistspace","tag-jim-orencio","tag-meanderings","tag-pinto-art-museum"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17752"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17765,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17752\/revisions\/17765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}