A two-day run last month of a rare art exhibit left the public clamoring for another opportunity to view the genius of an "artist of the people's struggle." The event featured some 100 drawings and paintings of a Philippine countryside in resistance, all done by Mindanaoan Parts Bagani.
It was an art exhibit that would have surely sent the big guns of the National Press Club squirming. Now, they can do just that.
Due to popular demand, the works of artist Parts Bagani will again be shown in a four-day exhibit dubbed as "Sining Luwal ng Kanayunan." It shall open with a brief program at
While most artists bask in the atmosphere of Metro Manila and the big cities elsewhere, Parts Bagani opted to stay in the countryside where he was born. In
His art abounds with scenes of resistance even of warriors in repose, of schools in open bamboo structures in the forest, of people singing songs of victory, of battered shoes and the lowly rice pot. But most of all, there are the endless mountains and hills that have become host to the struggle itself.
The exhibit is sponsored by the First Quarter Storm Movement, Tag-ani Performing Arts Society, Asosasyon ng mga Kabataang Artista, Kritiko at Iskolar ng Sining at Kultura (UP ASTERISK), UP Alay Sining, Kabataang Artista para sa Tunay na Kalayaan (Karatula) and the Congress of Teachers for Nationalism and Democracy.
The exhibit is a fund-raising project for the benefit of cancer-stricken UP Prof. Monico Atienza.
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