Lopez Museum opens PROPAGANDA exhibit on Feb 6,2015

The Lopez Museum and Library, in technology partnership with Samsung, is opening it's first exhibit for 2015, entitled PROPAGANDA , this Friday February 6, 2015.

The exhibition fleshes out the idea of myth-making and it's capacity to inspire change or derail genuine national progress.

Using the state-of-the-art Samsung equipment and programming to enhance the museum-going experience thru digital technology, it is an exhibition that challenges not just our notions of art and history , but also how we view museums and libraries.

Ricky Francisco, co-curator of PROPAGANDA, said the exhibition was conceived more than a year ago to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the WWII with Don M. Salubayba, 2009 CCP Thirteen Artists Awardee and one of the most promising artists of his generation.

The exhibition inlcudes a few of his important works such as

Pagsasabuhay
Abysmal Abound(Legend of the Philippines)that have been sourced and borrowed with the help of Tin-Aw Artists management.

Also featured are WWII posters, election-related archival materials, LVN movies still photographs, a collection of rare maps, Philippine imprints ; a recreaction of Santiago Bos's 1983 installation Pasyon at Rebolusyon that has been reinstalled by Kawayan de guia ; commissioned works from social realist and Negros Occidental-based artist Nunelucio Alvarado ; 2012 Thirteen artists awardee joey Cobcobo ; and writer and Gawad urian awardee film-malker Alvin yapan.

Enriching the exhibit andre-framing the exhibition issues are works by 18th centiry masters Juan Luna and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo , along with those national artists Fernando Amorsolo, Jose Joya, Cesar Legaspi, Vicente Manansala , and J. Elizalde Navarro from the permanent collection.

Co-curator Ethel Villafranca says that this exhibition invites visitors to reflect on "where we, as a country, have been and where we are going".
Francisco adds, "We hope that this would help the public become more critical of all the propaganda they will be exposed to once the nation is plunged into tha campaign period for the 2016 elections".

In this way, Propaganda aims to engage the public , challenge them to see the connections in history and culture within the objects in the collection , and be more discerning when presented with information , wether political or otherwise.

Propaganda will run from February 6 to May 30, 2015 and is presented with support from Samsung Philippines, Tin-Aw Artists Management, the heirs od Dona Narcissa De leon (LVN collection), and ABS_CBN Film and Media Archives.

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