{"id":9053,"date":"2017-06-25T08:59:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T00:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/?p=9053"},"modified":"2017-06-23T18:38:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T10:38:27","slug":"gray-horizon-at-ccp-see-tondo-manila-in-a-new-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/2017\/06\/25\/gray-horizon-at-ccp-see-tondo-manila-in-a-new-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray Horizon at CCP: See Tondo, Manila in a new light"},"content":{"rendered":"

See the town of Tondo, Manila in an entirely new light as the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Visual Arts and Museum Division presents Gray Horizon,<\/strong> an exhibit that features Tondo, until July 23, 2017 at the Pasilyo Vicente Manansala<\/em> (2F Hallway Gallery).<\/p>\n

\"\"GRAY HORIZON. Here’s the exhibit as it stands on CCP’s\u00a0Pasilyo Vicente Manansala (2F Hallway Gallery).\/IMAGE CCP<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Curated by Ricky Francisco, the exhibit featuring 36 new works by visual artist Ciron Se\u00f1eres and introduces the audience to Tondo, the largest and most populous district of Manila.<\/p>\n

Se\u00f1eres discovered his distinct painting style of thick black and white in Tondo. It\u2019s a high contrast depiction of neglected nooks and crannies, broken things, and discarded material, in a still contemplation of the high drama in decay.<\/p>\n

\"\"ONE OF THIRTY-SIX. One of the thirty-six pieces made by visual artist\u00a0Ciron Se\u00f1eres.\/IMAGE CCP<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Located at the heart of Manila, Tondo has an area of 9.10 square kilometers and an average population density of 69,297 per square kilometer, one of the highest in the world. It is fielded by Manila\u2019s main slaughterhouse, its harbors, and communities that make their living by continuously burning driftwood to make charcoal; all of which add to its dinginess and grime.<\/p>\n

It is notorious for poverty, slums, crime, and the ever present smoke of the fires from the charcoal pits and the burning garbage, which covers the horizon in a gray-black layer of haze and soot.<\/p>\n

What would have been repulsive, Se\u00f1eres has found rather beautiful. The struggle for human dignity, despite the tremendous odds, is a drama that unfolds daily in the dingy streets of Tondo, and in all honesty, much of Manila. This is what Se\u00f1eres memorializes with Gray Horizon.<\/p>\n

In the thirty-six works that comprise Gray Horizon, the audience is given a view of the city from its streets where chaos gives way to careful composition under the artist\u2019s watchful eye and keen sense of contrast. It is collaged into an artificial horizon which point to cross sections of the city, the city which Se\u00f1eres understands.<\/p>\n

The Pasilyo Vicente Manansala is located at the second floor of the CCP Main Building, CCP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City. For more information, contact the Visual Arts and Museum Division at 02-832-1125 loc. 1504\/1505 and 02-832-3702, mobile 0917-603-3809, email\u00a0ccp.exhibits@gmail.com<\/a>,\u00a0or visit\u00a0www.culturalcenter.gov.ph.<\/a><\/p>\n

Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n

What: Gray Horizon<\/p>\n

When: June 21 – July 23, 2017<\/p>\n

Where: Pasilyo Vicente Manansala (2\/F Hallway Gallery),\u00a0CCP Main Building, CCP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City, Metro Manila<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See the town of Tondo, Manila in an entirely new light as the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Visual Arts and Museum Division presents “Gray Horizon,” an exhibit that features Tondo, from June 21 to July 23, 2017 at the Pasilyo Vicente Manansala (2F Hallway Gallery).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,642],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pasay","category-ccp-complex","category-exhibit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9053","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=9053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9119,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9053\/revisions\/9119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/event\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}