The Cultural Center of the Philippines is currently running "On Site: Association of Pinoyprintmakers Annual Exhibition," a group exhibition exploring the complex and evolving practice of printmaking in the Philippines at the Bulwagang Roberto Chabet (Tanghalang Ignacio Gimenez Gallery). The exhibit will run until November 19.
"This year, the Association of Pinoyprintmakers (AP) moves away from this obsession among many artists and organizations for a patrilineal beginning," said political cartoonist and printmaker Jose Santos Ardivilla. "The Philippine art market's penchant to label certain art movements as having sprung from a patriarchal ground zero would have many of us read exhibition essays, catalogs pointing out that so and so is the father of this or that. Such an approach would cater to quite a misogynist notion that art begins from a parent, specifically, a father."
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