Search - 2019

The Joys and Abundance in the Life and Art of Inday Cadapan

By Mara Fabella

"The simplicity in her form and her lack of a formal artistic background had…

Further Conversation with Material: Curator’s Talk with Lara Acuin and Con Cabrera

By Lk Rigor

Speaking with Lk Rigor, curators Lara Acuin and Con Cabrera go into the intricacies of curating, artmaking,…

A decade of Jaime Pacena II’s creative practice: There’s art in all the in-betweens

By James Luigi Tana

of forgetting, of remembering

By James Luigi Tana

"Writing has to side with collective truths and it should compel one to interrogate…

Remembering loss in Teo Esguerra's flirted with you all my life

By The Cartellino Team

The artist’s latest offering at Vinyl on Vinyl reflects on a life lived…

Weaving a Legacy: Of Art, Growth, and Community

By Alyssa Selanova

"Now in its fourth year, Tubô Cebu Art Fair continuously echoes and demonstrates Visayas-Mindanao's growing…

Collaging Worlds: The Contemporary Spiritual in Jet B. Leyco’s Ispirituwal Transaction

By Pie Tiausas

"With the collapse of the search for an archaic singular truth then comes the…

'The absence left the void half full': Works on what we find in nothingness

By Gabrielle Gonzales

Cartellino's first ever physical exhibition, presented at the 2022 Modern and Contemporary Art Festival, features…

Score the matrix until you cut through: The art of Printmaking for the People

By The Cartellino Team

“Printmaking stands at the front lines of progressive propaganda. It…

When the present doesn’t hold: Navigating time between times in Anton Mallari’s When Dusk Settles

By Gabrielle Gonzales

The Regions in Focus at the 10th Art Fair Philippines

By Marz Aglipay

With this year’s edition of Art Fair Philippines going hybrid, featured art groups from the country’s…

Ang INK’s 30th Traces Its Role in Children’s Literature

By Wil Guzmanos

Nina Martinez, the current president of Ang INK,…

Artist Interview: Sam Feleo on Process and Her Next Steps

By Jose Naval

"In a way, the process became a process of care: about caring,…

It takes many twos

By Alain Zedrick Camiling

When it comes to art writing, there's often much to consider; in this estimate, two too many.

Ardent readings

By Carlos Quijon

"Ardent readings lead us to the emergence of something exemplary or to finding felicity in forms or articulations…

Defining Home in the Works of Contreras, Bacay, and Tee

By Mara Fabella

In this month’s exhibitions at MO_Space Gallery, Marionne Contreras,…

Loosen Writing’s Leash

By Pristine de Leon

Kickstarting the series, On Art Writing, Pristine…

STRANGE FRUIT: Six Photographers Define Light Nutrition

By Jed Escueta

Like This/Like That: On 'Katulad/Kahadha'

By Lix Sumilong

This Instagram exhibition draws striking parallels between works by Philippine and Arab masters, identifying…

Re-envisioning the Tarot: Brenda Fajardo, Iya Regalario, and Manix Abrera

By Raissa Azarcon

The open structure of the occult favorite allows for manifold interpretation and various designs - an appeal…

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Careening on the Conceptual Tailwind of Hae Ryun