The Philippine Pavilion that mimics the placid rippling of vast oceans, home to ever-expanding colonies of the coral reef Bangkota opened to the general public on Friday
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Luis “Junyee” Yee, Jr.: A Portrait of an (National) Artist as Filipino
Photo by Richie Macapinlac. 2021
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I first met Junyee when I was a student at the University of the Philippines in the early seventies. Together with some artist friends, we would later visit him when he began living in the campus of UP, Los Banos, which has become his home and a source of indigenous materials and inspiration for the site-specific installations for which he became widely known as the pioneer of installation art not just in the Philippines but in Southeast Asia. Those were halcyon days, walking and talking amidst the lush forestry and mountain trails at the base of Mount Makiling.
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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, Feb 3 As Expo 2020 Dubai opens up for a public visit to give a preview of the site ahead of the full opening in October, the Philippines announced that its ‘Bangkóta’ pavilion is near completion and will present globally-active icons of architecture, art, and design who will drive the pavilion’s experiences and messages.
The Philippines is participating with an imagination-expanding pavilion in this forthcoming edition of the World Expo.
Notably featuring Ramon P. Santos, Laureate of the Order of National Artist for Music, a proud selection of Filipino artists directed their personal artistic languages to create the pavilion sequence of updated ideas about the Philippines.