Araneta City Gateway Gallery mixes cardiovascular health and art in latest exhibit

Araneta City Gateway Gallery mixes cardiovascular health and art in latest exhibit

Monday, March 7, 2022

The J. Amado Araneta Foundation (JAAF) and Araneta City's Gateway Gallery partner with public interest law organization ImagineLaw in hosting an art anthology exhibit to celebrate the culmination of Philippine Heart Month. 

Titled 'Heart to Art', the anthology exhibit features crowdsourced art pieces by local Filipino artists that depict personal stories and experiences on heart disease and COVID-19. It is open for public viewing for free at the Gateway Gallery from March 1 through March 15, 2022.

In the Philippines, coronary heart disease (CHD), a type of cardiovascular disease, is responsible for taking over 120,800 lives annually making it the number 1 cause of death in the country. Health conditions like heart disease, also aggravate the symptoms of COVID-19. About half of Filipinos who died from COVID-19 also suffered from comorbidities, the majority of which was found to be CHD. 

Behind this statistic are real people, with real stories to tell. The realities faced by people with heart disease cannot be expressed through numbers alone. 

The art exhibit aims to raise awareness on heart disease as a prevalent concern among Filipinos, and build support for the issuance of trans fat elimination policies in the country. TFA is a toxic compound commonly found in food items with partially hydrogenated oil (PHO), such as prepackaged and baked and fried street and restaurant food. Poor diet high in TFA increases the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) like heart attacks, known comorbidity of COVID-19.

The Heart to Art exhibit represents a fervent call to strengthen efforts in combating the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. It is hoped that through this exhibit, one’s eyes are opened to the urgent need to enact policies that will prioritize Filipinos’ heart health. 

To know more about the exhibit or for more extensive features, you may contact Eloah (09162219846, eloah@imaginelaw.ph), or Ma-Anne (09178130632, maanne@imaginelaw.ph).

Gateway Gallery is Araneta City's museum devoted to the promotion of Philippine arts and culture. It is a free-admission museum, open daily from 10 am to 6 pm at 5F Gateway Tower, Araneta City, Quezon City. For inquiries, you may call at 8588-4000 local 8300, or email at gatewaygallery@aranetagroup.com.

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SM CITY TAYTAY SHOWCASES ART BOOK EXHIBIT

SM CITY TAYTAY SHOWCASES ART BOOK EXHIBIT

Monday, February 28, 2022

In celebration of National Arts Month this February, SM recently showcased the life and works of some of the country’s most fascinating visual artists at the My City, My SM, My Art book exhibit in SM City Taytay.

The exhibit featured pages from the book, which is a compilation of the My City, My SM, My Art campaign highlighting the best of Philippine visual arts – painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and filmmaking. During its three-year cultural journey from 2016-2019, My City, My SM, My Art featured masters, modernists, and millennials in a roadshow around the SM Supermalls as far north as the Cordilleras and as far south as General Santos.

During the exhibit, mallgoers had a rare glimpse of the book at the My Art house, which is inspired Luzon’s Bahay na Bato. The larger-than -life book pages showcased the life and works of Maestro Jose “Pitok” Blanco.

Jose “Pitok” Blanco is known for his mural size paintings depicting the joyous celebrations in Angono that captures the faces of real people in town. His masterpiece, Pag-ahon ng Pagoda, a depiction of the fluvial parade of the San Clemente fiesta in the 1970s was obtained by the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. Angono Town Fiesta shows more than 100 figures at various states of delight and celebration during the feast of San Clemente, Angono’s Patron Saint.

Pitok’s children, who are second generation artists, also gave mallgoers a glimpse of their works during the exhibit. Glenn Blanco, Noel Blanco, Michael Blanco, Joy Blanco-Alejandro and Peter Paul Blanco graced the exhibit opening at the 2nd Level Bldg A of SM City Taytay and were welcomed by SM Supermalls Senior Assistant Vice President for Operations Johanna Rupisan, Regional Operations Manager Cid Victoria and SM City Taytay Mall Manager Maureen Fernandez.

The exhibit also featured book pages of those who were part of the My Art stop at SM City Taytay: Pinto Art Museum’s Edrick Daniel, Sculptors Kishin Javier and Lucky Salayog, and Franz Marion Vocalan.

Also highlighted were works of Angono KUTA Arts Group founder Isidro “Manong Jon” Santos whose works are free-flowing abstract forms that fuse into randomly recognizable images that are often visually arresting and have a window to his imagination.

My City, My SM, My Art is the latest edition in the My City, My SM series, which celebrates the beauty, culture, traditions and great people in cities around the Philippines where SM has malls. This comes after My City, My SM, which highlights tourism; My City, My SM, My Cuisine, which features heirloom recipes from prominent families around the country, and My City, My SM, My Crafts, a celebration of traditional arts and modern Philippine design.

Visit https://mystorymysm.com/mycitymysmmyart/ and https://www.youtube.com/MyCityMySMMyArt to learn more about the My City, My SM, My Art campaign.

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