STEREO 2 by Juan Caguicla and Christina Dy
Posted by France at July 26th, 2010
6-9pm
Silverlens Gallery celebrates MANILART 10 with STEREO 2 by Juan Caguicla and Christina Dy, July 27-31, 2010 at Silverlens
STEREO by Juan Caguicla and Christina Dy continues on July 27 at Silverlens Gallery. As a special extension of the Silverlens Show at MANILART 10 , the Philippines’ second international contemporary art fair to be held from July 30 to August 01 at the SMX Convention Center, Caguicla and Dy join Frankie Callaghan, Leslie de Chavez, Mariano Ching, Chati Coronel, Christina Dy, Wawi Navarozza, Gina Osterloh, Hanna Pettyjohn and Rachel Rillo.
Showcasing the second part of two series marrying Caguicla’s edgy photography and Dy’s large-scale charcoal drawings, Caguicla and Dy present only one image, albeit a very strong one. As in January’s STEREO 1, the two choose their body as their subjects to produce an altogether new and grotesque image. It is indeed “stereoscopic”, as described by mutual friend Raymond De Veyra, the source of the show’s name.
In this show, called STEREO 2, Caguicla and Dy go much further with what they bare and where they connect. And by also going much bigger in scale, STEREO 2 is meant to make an impact. There is a thrill in seeing it for the first time.
Complementing STEREO 2 is their collaboration for Brian Tenorio and Emi Jorge’s design exhibition, Tenorio/Jorge on Fifth Avenue, which ran from April 29 through May 22 in The Philippine Center in New York. “As a backdrop to Tenorio and Jorge’s designs are two of the most-photographed faces in the Philippines, Piolo Pascual and Angel Aquino – both excellent specimens of quintessential Filipino beauty.”* Caguicla photographed Pascual and Aquino while Dy drew on the decorative details. To highlight what is ‘Pinoy’, they thought to put together Pascual and Aquino’s iconic beauty and Catholic iconography.
As in STEREO 2, they lay out imagery that is familiar, full of detail and with perhaps a milieu of metaphors to be found. But the idea behind Caguicla and Dy’s work is not to prescribe, but rather to look with new eyes.
STEREO 2 is shown alongside Beautiful Inside My Head Forever with Martha Atienza, Bea Camacho, Sam Kiyoumarsi and Pow Martinez, curated by Norberto Roldan at SLab; and Sure Sure, Happy Happy, Picture Picture by Maria Jeona at 20SQUARE.
MANILART10 will be at the SMX Convention Center, Pasay City from July 30 to August 01,2010. For more information and tickets, please visit www.manilart.com
Words: Bea Davila, Image: Juan Caguicla and Christina Dy, Piolo Pascual / Filipino (left), Angel Aquino / Filipina (right), 2010
* Words by Brian Tenorio (www.briantenorio.com)
THE PACIFIC Contest Winners
Posted by France at June 6th, 2010Remember the contest we held? Well here are the ten winners!
1. Zyon Jerekiel S. Aquino
2. Joy Mesina-Bahia
3. John Lester C. Gonzaga
4. Marissa Manaloto
5. Neva Kares
6. Anthony Arriola
7. Sergio Ortiz Luis
8. Katherine Mabale
9. Willitt Alayon
10. Edeliza V. Macalandag
Please claim your prizes anytime between 9 a.m to 5 p.m., June 1 to 11, from the UNO MAGAZINE office, 5 Leaf Publishing Co., Inc. Unit 103, South Gate Building, 1508 Finance Drive, Madrigal Business Park, Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa. Don’t forget to bring your valid I.D. and look for France or Denise or Jester.
Dessert Stormed with Katwo Puertollano at Five Cows
Posted by France at May 26th, 2010
With her insight on food-sex equivalence, petite powerhouse artist Katwo Puertollano rouses up her sweet tooth and puts Five Cows resto and ice cream bar to the test.
Words by France Pinzon | Photographs by Mitch Mauricio
Eliminate the associations with late night binging, “brain freeze” and diabetes, and ice cream could actually turn out to be man’s BFF more than his “frenemy.” For starters, ice cream has calcium that helps control blood pressure and weight. In addition, we share a long and ancient history with this fine confection, as its earliest versions originated from rulers and emperors wanting to top ice with fruits and honey.
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Under Pressure: Presenting 2010 Senatorial Candidate Atty. Adel Tamano, and his allegedly weird hair
Posted by France at May 9th, 2010
Striped Gray Sweater- McQ from Dotdotdot, Gray Trousers- Paul Smith, all prices available upon request
Photography by Miguel Miranda
Styling by Eloise Alba
Makeup, Hair and Grooming by Lilien Yeung
Shot at Triptych Studios, Makati
By France Pinzon originally appearing in the May 2010 issue of UNO Magazine. To see more of Atty. Adel Tamano (and his hair), buy a copy of UNO May 2010 NOW!
Nacionalista senatorial bet Atty. Adel Tamano lives and breathes pressure. Currently the United Opposition spokesperson and Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila President, the 40-year-old son of both a former Senator (Mamintal Tamano) and a social civic leader (Hadja Putri Zorayda Abbas Tamano) explains the high expectations he needs to live up to in order to justify a seat in the Senate, “[It is] the pressure to continue my father’s legislative work in education and Muslim and Mindanaoan representation. It has been nearly two decades since we have had a Muslim in the Senate, and there is definitely clamor—from both Muslims and Christians—to give Muslims and Mindanaoans a voice in the Upper House.”
Counter Punch
Posted by France at February 9th, 2010by France Pinzon
MAIN EVENTS INVOLVE SPECIAL ADMISSIONS, HIGH STAKES AND A LOT OF MEDIA ATTENTION. NONITO DONAIRE SR. TELLS US WHY GETTING THE PINK SLIP IS QUITE THE SIMILAR AFFAIR.
After enduring a cold cyber-blow to the gut (translation: getting sacked from one’s job as a world boxing champion’s father-trainer via Internet news), Nonito “Dodong” Donaire Sr. got right back to business, leading two budding Filipino boxers to score upset wins over much favored opponents–one with 19-year-old Marvin “Marvelous” Sonsona, who beat Puerto Rican Jose Lopez for the WBO super flyweight title, and another with Ana “Hurricane” Julaton, who won over American Kelsey Jeffries in the IBA super bantamweight division-all of which happened last September. (As of press time, Sonsona had just loss his title to Mexican Alejandro Hernandez in Canada last November 21, after failing to going over the weight limit , while Julaton had kept her belt, winning against American Donna Biggers last December in San Jose, CA.)
Despite those post-firing events appearing to be a mild case of poetic justice, the 50-year old South Cotabato native didn’t have any plans on proving anything to his superstar son, whom he’d read on the Web was “looking for a new trainer” just days before his WBA super flyweight title match against Rafael Concepcion of Panama last August. “I don’t have any problems with my son, I really love and care for him.”
Such a response only reveals a fraction of the type of relationship the two share with each other. “He was a very nice kid, very respectful and energetic. He would always beat me in basketball and baseball,” the older Nonito recalls of the younger’s childhood.
The older didn’t quite have similar me-and-my-dad days while growing up in the province. (His father Teodorico died when he was just three.) After finishing grade school in Polonuling Elementary School in Puli, South Cotabato, then-young Dodong, his mother Rosario and sister Amparo all moved to General Santos City, where he was forced to work as a child, carrying sacks of rice and cement in exchange for less than 10 centavos per bag delivered. He was also unable to finish his education.
With a lot of things not going his way, the high school dropout enlisted himself as a Third Class Trainee in the Philippine Army, where he would soon get into amateur boxing and then meet his very first student: himself. (“I had to practice on my own since there were no boxing trainers available in the camp.”)
Donaire Sr. during his stint with the Philippine Army
Nonito Jr.’s adolescence involved neither military service nor Gensan Makar Wharf manual labor. By the age of seven, his father, being part-Hawaiian, had moved to the United States and the whole family (including mother Imelda and siblings Glenn, Rochelle and Lucky) eventually followed within the next three years. In 1994, to protect his children from gang recruitment, Nonito Sr. decided to get them into combative sports. Soon after, Jun-jun, who was training in karate then, would find himself in a sort-of sibling rivalry with his older brother Glenn, who at that time had begun bringing home trophies from boxing competitions under the father’s coaching. Feeling the need to match up to his brother’s amateur success, Jun joined the tandem and, in just 45 days, began competing like Glenn.
As the boys’ father-trainer, Dodong claims to have applied the semi-authoritarian method (“I made jokes with them, but I never babied them.”) “If I didn’t train them hard, you wouldn’t see where Nonito Jr. is right now.”
Dodong, with sons Glenn and Nonito Jr.
But as many a teacher has experienced, the student eventually surpassed expectations and became bigger than his mentor. In any case, a simple need for personal space could be reason enough for one bitter separation.
“Right now we have not had any communication since his second title defense against Mthalane [last August],” Dodong admits. “I lost my job, our health benefits and my retirement because of this.”
Distress over the fallout has been obvious as the older Donaire shares his sentiments. “Everybody worked hard for him because he had the potential to be a world champion. Now, even his Mom, who is jobless right now, is worried about getting evicted from the apartment [in San Leandro, California] where she is staying with Glenn [who works for Red Ribbon as a truck driver],” he says of Junior, who now resides in San Mateo, California with Fil-Am wife Rachel, a former United States taekwondo champion. Likewise, Dodong realizes that his plan of settling down for good in order to relax and nurse a bad back, which came from his many years of working, is not going to happen any time soon.
When someone takes a good beating, his immediate reaction is to strike back. But in Nonito Sr.’s case, we realize that it’s never really the ideal automatic response.
At the moment, the now-Cebu resident busies himself in training Sonsona and Julaton, as well as arranging matches for his prized fighters. (“I am trying to get Ana to fight here in the Philippines.”)
Any other prospects? “I have Jundy Maraon, number seven in the WBO category, who has a bout on December 19. I also have Ciso Morales.” (who just defeated Mexican Miguel Piedras and is scheduled to go up against Fernando Montiel this February.)
His dream bout? “Sonsona against [Vic] Darchinyan, I know we can beat him.”
The world boxing champion Donaire didn’t know anything about the celebrated sport until his father/ mentor/ trainer became all those things all at once. “I always told him, ‘Don’t forget where we came from; be humble.’ When he’s in the ring I always told him to be smart and to not get hit too much.”
As Nonito Jr. fights another fight and his father trains another possible up-and-comer, spectators carry on with their speculations: That the younger Donaire will continue to win more titles and eventually become the next Manny Pacquiao, while the older one goes on developing future contenders in the coming months, but eventually retires due to the emergence of more known training camps.
Like every underdog down the homestretch of a main event, he is bound to find his second wind while the opponent rests on his laurels, and then deliver the sensational game-finisher just when the crowd thought it’s long been a unanimous win.
“I’ve always been underestimated by everybody,” Nonito Sr. professes with much conviction. “Until I made a champion.”
Nonito Donaire Jr. is set to fight Mexican boxer Gerson Guerrero on February 13, 2010, at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Dex Fernandez and – + *
Posted by France at January 22nd, 2010
Come to the first solo exhibit of Dex Fernandez, – + *, from January 20 to February 24, 2010, at PABLO Fort, Taguig.
There are more joys and brand new pains we ought to embrace and expect to be coming in as there is no definite thing in this world but death and change and perhaps, the evolution of symbols, maybe? There are few more other things you have yet to unearth and know. And what you don’t know just won’t hurt you. And what doesn’t hurt us doesn’t mean anything at all as hurting, falling, living, and dying is all part of the process of uncovering a symbol or being a symbol yourself. Because if you don’t symbolize anything, it only means one thing: That you do not exist.
–Dex
For more information, log on to www.pablogalleries.com
DC Skateboard Deck Design Competition
Posted by France at January 20th, 2010
STEREO I by CHRISTINA DY and JUAN CAGUICLA, SILVERLENS GALLERY
Posted by France at January 12th, 2010
Please come to STEREO I, a collaboration by UNO Creative Director Juan Caguicla and Christina Dy. Opening January 13, Wednesday, 6pm at Silverlens Gallery
STYLE YOURSELF AT THE PUMA® STORE
Posted by France at January 11th, 2010This holiday season, enhance your street style with Puma and win P20K worth of stuff plus be on the Puma Style Guide to be released in 2010!
Manila, Philippines – Gone are the days when Puma used to be associated with sports and athletic wear. If you’re in the know of street and lifestyle wear, you should know that Puma is now emerging as one of the top brands known for being stylish and unique. With the designer Hussein Chalayan at the helm as Creative Director and a long list of designer collaborations including Alexander McQueen, Yasuhiro Mihara and Sergio Rossi, Puma surely will never be out of the fashion and street culture radar.
This holiday season, Puma invites everyone to style themselves and incorporate in their own fashion statement stuff from the Fall-Holiday 2009 collection. The store staff will take the snapshots. Those who will be chosen will get P20,000 worth of Puma stuff plus a chance to be on the Puma Style Guide to be released in 2009. There will be one (1) winner per store or a total of nine (9) Puma style setters nationwide. Be among the first to join and get a special gift (limited stocks only) just by participating.
The style selection at Puma is endless. Puma’s in the business of making you feel good and look good so a Puma Store is always well-stocked. Pair your fave bright Suedes with a grungy flannel shirt both from the Archive Collection. Or get out your comfort zone and pair PUMA LIFT shoes from the Running Collection with the classic Edition Windbreaker. For the ladies slip in those tights from the Women’s Fitness Collection under a Sailing Dress then finish off with the Super Beats shoe. Another suggestion would be the funky 917 japanimation inspired Mid Mangas with a Heritage Tee. But who’s to dictate – of course you do have your own stuff to style Puma with.
The Killers Live in Manila!
Posted by France at January 11th, 2010
