Mabini Art Project: 100 Paintings, 2009
Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan
Mabini Art Project: 100 Paintings, 2009
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
Installation view
Gift of Security Bank Corporation
Collection of Ateneo Art Gallery
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Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan
Mabini Art Project: 100 Paintings, 2009
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
Installation view
Gift of Security Bank Corporation
Collection of Ateneo Art Gallery
Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan create works that use the processes of collecting and collaborating to express ideas of migration, family and memory. Often working with local communities, the Aquilizans bring together personal items to compose elaborate, formal installations reflecting individual experiences of dislocation and change.
Join the Aquilizans as they discuss their Sharjah Biennial 11 Mabini Art Project, a commentary on the status conferred to artists and paintings often considered low brow and kitsch found in the tourist belt of downtown Manila, a district within the environs of Mabini Street.
Mabini art is a genre of conservative Filipino landscape painting associated with lowbrow commercial galleries that cater to the tourist market.
Alfredo Juan and Isabel Aquilizan's projects are informed by their home life as well as their experience as Filipino immigrants to Australia.
This catalogue accompanied Sharjah Biennial 11.