‘The Venice Biennale is the place where you see what happens in the world through a better pair of lenses. This is the forum where the global world can be better analyzed. This is the melting pot of shared knowledge.’ Paolo Baratta, president of La Biennale di Venezia
VENICE — This we clearly won.
Shortly before the vernissage of the Philippine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2015, I asked Sen. Loren Legarda, who had been pushing for the Philippine participation in the […]
If you can’t be at the world’s biggest art party, you can at least enjoy the vicarious pleasure of knowing what is exciting the crowds at the 56th Venice Biennale.
Every country wants a piece of the Venice Biennale. The most established – predominantly European – have permanent pavilions in the Giardini, while the new powers have taken over the Arsenale. More countries buy in each year. The 2015 Biennale includes, for the first time, Andorra, Bangladesh, India, Iraq, Saudi […]
As we celebrate National Heritage Month, Senator Loren Legarda, Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Cultural Communities, underscored the need to preserve and restore the country’s built heritage.
“Our heritage, both tangible and intangible, is constantly under threat of extinction. As we observe National Heritage Month, we are again reminded of our responsibility to protect and preserve the knowledge, traditions, practices, as well as natural and built treasures we inherited from our forefathers,” said Legarda.
The Senator highlighted the need to preserve […]
MANILA, May 12 — Art and politics merge as the Philippine Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia officially opened today at the Palazzo Mora in the northern Italian city of Venice.
Entitled “Tie a String Around the World”, the Philippine Pavilion curated by Dr. Patrick D. Flores, takes Manuel Conde and Carlos Francisco’s film “Genghis Khan” as a starting point and curatorial reference for two contemporary projects by Jose Tence Ruiz and Manny Montelibano.
Conde’s “Genghis […]
Now that the Philippines has made its triumphant return to the Venice Biennale, we asked the main architect behind the comeback, Senator Loren Legarda, about why it’s so important for the country to join the world art stage, how she helped make it happen, and how local art has been a part of her own life practically since birth.
THE PHILIPPINE STAR: What made you work for Philippine participation in the Biennale?
SEN. LOREN LEGARDA: The puzzling absence of the Philippines in […]
