Practice Must Collapse 5

Ronald Anading
Felix Bacolor
Rock Drilon
Bernardo Pacquing
Popo San Pascual

10 to 31 August 2006
Mag:net Gallery Paseo

Practice Must Collapse 5 , a group exhibition by Ronald Anading, Felix Bacolor, Rock Drilon, Bernardo Pacquing, and Popo San Pascual, will be on view from August 10 to 31, 2006 at Mag:net Gallery Paseo in Makati .

Practice Must Collapse 5 features recent works by the five exhibiting artists. It derives its title from and is also an extension of a larger group exhibition entitled Practice Must Collapse, currently concluded at Mag:net along Katipunan Avenue .

For this show, Bacolor exhibits an installation entitled Oil and Canvas ( 3.5’ x 4’ x 6”). Conceptualizing a tongue-in-cheek reference to the traditional artistic medium of oil on canvas, Bacolor fills a glass enclosure with linseed oil and submerges an entire sheet of unprimed canvas in the liquid. Anading, meanwhile, will exhibit a large-scale painting (5 ft x 5 ft) done in cement on board at the mezzanine area of Mag:net Paseo.

San Pascual will feature a recent work titled Safari (30” x 40”), filling the predominantly blue canvas space with silhouettes of animals, such as horses, ostriches, and hyenas.

Pacquing exhibits his works in the Philippines for the first time after a two-year stay in Malaysia while Drilon shows a large painting done recently.

Practice Must Collapse 5 also represents five generations of visual artists, to which Anading, Bacolor, Drilon, Pacquing, and San Pascual belong. All are products of the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Fine Arts and members of the UP Artists’ Circle.

Practice Must Collapse 5 opens at Mag:net Gallery Paseo on August 10 and runs until the end of the month. Mag:net Paseo is located at Paseo Center , Paseo de Roxas corner Sedeno Street , Makati City. For inquiries, please contact 8177895 (Jhennie) or email magnetplus@gmail.com or visit magnet.com.ph