May 8, 2015
MESSAGE OF SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA
Vernissage of the Philippine Pavilion
56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale
8 May 2015 | Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
I am thrilled that the Philippines is back in Venice after 51 years, on the year that Okwui Enwezor is curating the central exhibition. Both All The World’s Futures and Patrick Flores’ Tie A String Around the World are grounded in urgent geopolitical issues.
Art is politics; art is global politics. This year’s Philippine Pavilion […]
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April 23, 2015
Speech of Senator Loren Legarda
Joint Meeting Between Rotary Club of Manila and Rotary Club of Forbes Park
23 April 2015 | Manila Polo Club
It is with great pleasure that I take part in this gathering to encourage Rotarians to take a more active role in finding solutions to the growing social, economic and development challenges caused by environmental degradation and disasters arising from natural hazards made stronger by climate change.
We are living in a world with finite resources and yet generations […]
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April 17, 2015
MESSAGE OF PATRICK D. FLORES
Curator, Tie A String Around the World
Press Conference on the Philippine Participation in the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale
15 April 2015 | DFA Building, Pasay City
In 1950 in the Philippines, the filmmaker Manuel Conde and the painter Carlos Francisco worked together to do the first film ever on Genghis Khan. Telling the tale of the conqueror’s rite of passage from warrior to overlord in the form of a metrical […]
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April 17, 2015
MESSAGE OF AMBASSADOR MASSIMO ROSCIGNO
Press Conference on the Philippine Participation in the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale
15 April 2015 | DFA Building, Pasay City
Hon. Secretary Albert F. Del Rosario,
Hon Senator Loren Legarda
Hon. Chairman of the NCCA Felipe M. De Leon
Mr Curator of the Philippine Pavillon Patrick D. Flores
Distinguished guests, ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a great pleasure for me to attend this Press Conference for the participation of the Philippines to the 56th […]
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April 15, 2015
MESSAGE OF SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA
Press Conference on the Philippine Participation in the
56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale
15 April 2015 | DFA Building, Pasay City
In less than a month, we will be unveiling an impressive exhibition of Filipino artists in Venice, Italy as we make our comeback in the world’s most prestigious contemporary art exhibition, the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
This is historic because this is only the second time that we will have a Philippine pavilion in this […]
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