BULWAGANG ROBERTO CHABET: CCP UNLOCKS NEW EXHIBITION SPACE AT ITS BLACKBOX THEATER

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BULWAGANG ROBERTO CHABET: CCP UNLOCKS NEW EXHIBITION SPACE AT ITS BLACKBOX THEATER

While the Tanghalang Pambansa (CCP Main Building) is undergoing its much-needed rehabilitation, the Cultural Center of the Philippines has been looking for ways to link with audiences and presents its creator programming by partnering with accumulation spaces and performing arts venues successful and extracurricular of Metro Manila and maximizing its existing spaces successful the CCP Complex.

Ariel Yonzon, caput of the CCP Production and Exhibition Department

The starring arts instauration has partnered with assorted museums and galleries successful Metro Manila and the regions. Aside from that, the CCP Visual Arts and Museum Division has been rolling retired traveling exhibitions; the latest of which is the on-going grounds titled “Woman: Thesis and Antithesis” successful concern with the Yuchengco Museum successful Makati City.

Pandy Aviado, printmaker

To proceed its ocular arts programs and projects, the CCP transforms the 3rd level of the Tanghalang Ignacio B. Gimenez (CCP Blackbox Theater) into a assemblage and accumulation space, dubbed BULWAGANG ROBERTO CHABET.

Benjie Torrado Cabrera, printmaker

Deemed a fitting determination to make an accumulation space, the caller assemblage hopes to complement the doctrine of the CCP Blackbox Theater. The blackbox theatre has been designed to cater to caller works that are out-of-the-box; the aforesaid rule that the Bulwagang Roberto Chabet (CCP TIG Gallery) upholds. In time, the caller assemblage volition big modern and experimental exhibitions, arsenic good arsenic innovative collaborations.

“As its mandate, the CCP creates a equilibrium betwixt being successful interaction with Philippine creation past and making abstraction for modern methods of artmaking. We anticipation to execute and fortify that work done Bulwagang Roberto Chabet,” said CCP President Margie Moran-Floirendo.

The featured printmakers for the opening grounds Space/Place of Bulwagang Roberto Chabet

The caller accumulation abstraction aims to widen the CCP’s thrust of promoting creator excellence and nurturing of creation making and appreciation portion the Main Building undergoes rehabilitation.

The CCP plans to utilize Bulwagang Roberto Chabet arsenic creator abstraction for young artists with constricted vulnerability arsenic good arsenic caller and innovative ideas that artists and curators would similar to research done the CCP Visual Arts and Museum Division’s Exhibition Venue Grant program.

“We anticipation the caller assemblage volition go a dynamic abstraction to showcase works from the CCP 21AM collection, reframed and recontextualized to respond to the interests and concerns of a wider audience. The CCP has been encouraging explorations and innovations successful artmaking and exhibition-making by providing not conscionable abstraction but besides curatorial assistance,” said Moran-Floirendo.

Art enthusiasts during the motorboat of Bulwagang Roberto Chabet

The caller assemblage is named aft a Filipino conceptual creator recognized arsenic 1 of the astir influential Filipino artists successful the post-war generation. Naming the accumulation abstraction aft Roberto Chabet honors the important contributions of the precocious ocular creator successful the Philippine creation community. It represents his designation of the imaginable and vigor young and emerging artists bring and lend to the trajectory of section modern art.

Known for his divers works that sought much inclusive methods to arts, Chabet was the archetypal depository manager of the CCP from 1967 to 1971. A Gawad CCP Para sa Sining Awards recipient, helium was instrumental successful acquiring immoderate of the pieces included successful the existent CCP 21AM Collection, arsenic good arsenic successful establishing the CCP Thirteen Artists Awards successful 1970 arsenic a curatorial project. The signifier curtain of the Tanghalang Aurelio Tolentino (CCP Little Theater) is based connected the coating of Chabet, rendered connected a tapestry made successful Kyoto, Japan.

The CCP’s Bulwagang Roberto Chabet (TIG Gallery) officially opens to the nationalist with “Space/Place,” an accumulation by the Association of Pinoyprintmakers, connected May 16, 6pm that volition tally until June 18, 2023.

Do cheque retired the caller assemblage and its debut grounds astatine the Tanghalang Ignacio B. Gimenez, located astatine the CCP Complex (fronting PICC). Follow the authoritative CCP societal media accounts successful Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok for the latest happenings.

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BULWAGANG ROBERTO CHABET: CCP UNLOCKS NEW EXHIBITION SPACE AT ITS BLACKBOX THEATER
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