The tastes, sounds and sights of Italy and the Mediterranean region, featuring Animaguitara’s Jonathan Agbayani Gonzales and selected artists of Art Tempo Manila. “Mediterranean Sojourn” is guitar mini-concert complemented by an art exhibit, where guests can savor Italian gourmet specialties at the Trattoria Poggio Antico in McKinley Hill, Taguig. Mediterranean Sojourn is indeed a synesthetic experience.
Animaguitara is run entirely by performer-educator Jonathan Gonzales with independent curator Laya Boquiren. The repertoire included compositions by guitar greats inspired by the Mediterranean.
On the other hand, Art Tempo Manila is an art group convened by Juno Parungao. The exhibit featured Cora Patarata and Rex Rosco. Their paintings are inspired by their travels to the Mediterranean. Incidentally, Rosco and Patarata’s works are reminiscent of the colors of the Italian countryside.
About Rosco and Patarata (artist write-ups and paintings from the Art Tempo Manila Website, accessed May 3, 2014)
The colors of Corazon “Cora” Gaufo Patarata’s artworks speak of glee. Cora was born in Manila in 1957; she grew up in Baguio City and had lived and worked in Washington D.C., Beijing, Bonn, Berlin, Stockholm, and Vancouver. These places influenced her color palette and themes. She sees the inner glow of nature as her artworks remind us of our responsibility to take care of our beautiful planet. Cora actively exhibits in Greenfield Business Parks in Pasig. Her past exhibits include Rhythm of Colors, Seasons of Contemporary Art, and More than Flowers and Chocolates in Primos Cuisine and Lounge jointly curated by Minnette Marasigan and Juno Parungao.
Another talented artist regularly exhibiting in Greenfield Business Parks is Rex R. Rosco. Rosco’s art reveals dispositions, emotional transitions, spiritual evolutions as these are manifested in human behavior. His involvement in public service, like medical missions, have instilled in him the ability to understand the complexities of humanity and the human condition. The evanescent evolutions. Rosco strives to capture speak of impermanence and because everything changes,life is nowhere and somewhere all at the same time. Rosco’s background in architecture allows him to capture these fleeting forms in many dimensions. Aside from his several exhibits in Greenfield, Rosco has also exhibited his works in Canada.
Curator Laya Boquiren shares “Mediterranean is Rosco’s last exhibition before his sojourn to the afterlife, where he is now at peace.”
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