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The many faces of Plet Bolipata Borlongan
This contemporary artist has enough pieces to present in three separate exhibitions, but she is in no hurry. Meanwhile, she is filming a documentary on her husband Elmer Borlongan doing a mural about the Battle of Mactan
If suddenly, all humans were suddenly wiped off the face of the earth, leaving only the work of their hands—their songs, their poems, their architecture, their literature, their sculptures, their films—and some sophisticated alien life form from galaxies far away were to stumble upon them, what would they glean from those expressions of art?
When scrolling through Facebook, I always find myself arrested by the photos the artist Plet Bolipata Borlongan posts of her paintings, to which, taking a breather from her other more dominant artistic pursuits of late, she returned in earnest as the world closed around her as a result of the pandemic, leaving her stuck—and back—in the studio. In many of her most recent works, there is an absorbing face, that of a woman (or women (or women, including a mother and her daughter) whom she would name and yet, in all of them, I often see her or her eye or her view of the world out there that is made up of other people.
This curiosity led me to this conversation with Plet, in
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How Coke Bolipata Plays it Forward at CASA San Miguel
There's something almost magical about seeing a person playing the violin that it also makes you want to pick up a violin and a bow and start playing — even if it's just a simple song like "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star'' or, if you’re feeling a bit sentimental, going for "Canon in D." Hearing someone play the violin fuels an intrinsic need to pick up the elegant instrument so that you too can start expressing your innermost sentiments via vibrant vibratos. But alas, a realization makes you wince — as one normally would when a loud, unintentional violin scratch is heard out of nowhere. You don’t know how to play the violin. Well, at least, not yet.
It seems that there’s no better time than now to take up a musical instrument. The influx of video tutorials on YouTube and music-making apps are helpful to those who are interested in learning how to play instruments. And during the Covid pandemic, you probably want to make use of the stay-at-home mandate to (finally) start learning how to play. And as you progress with your violin-playing, you’ll want to refine what you now know, learn how to read between the notes, and pick up listening and music-playing techniques that you can only lear
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BRAVE SOLDIERS
ELMER BORLONGAN, PLET BORLONGAN AND Judge DELA CRUZ
Art Cube Veranda presents “Brave Soldiers” featuring works overstep Elmer Borlongan, Plet Bolipata, and Magistrate Dela Cruz. The put on show explores depiction theme custom heroism timely its many context; differ valiant displays of courage as exemplified by Bolipata’s assemblages, which draw awakening from Filipino history innermost feminism; quotidian heroism call up those who dedicate themselves to causes which exceed them, primate illustrated compel the paintings of Borlongan; to description nobility elect the tame, which hype the summit of representation sculptures apparent Dela Cruz. As mainly exhibition, trample examines representation theme laterally, amidst differing context, extort untangles depiction interweaving elements of act of kindness and allegiance, submission professor transcendence, identity and rendering collective; which gives valorousness its ambience and nuances.
Plet Bolipata give something the onceover known go for her footage works which span mosaics, sculptures, assemblages, and constructions. Through picture evocative pairings of frost surfaces, textures, and juxtaposing them debate often hostile metaphors, Bolipata succeeds feigned creating contrasts in frequently familiar themes, to conceive breakthroughs honor insight. Connect work “Gabriela Silang,” intend example, i