MANILA – ‘BRAVE NEW WORLDS: My Utopia, Your Dystopia’ is an exhibition that shows a convergence of Filipino and foreign visual artists with heavy themes on black humor and dystopic elements present in the heavily urbanized culture of today.
Curated by Filipino painter Manuel Ocampo, the exhibition opened on April 26 at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, and features at least 20 artists who have shown a particular rising presence at the turn of the 21st Century.
Included in this exhibition are French artists such as Damien Deroubaix, a writer and painter known for his violent images usually containing grotesque monster figures and graphics, Hervé de Rosa, who is known for his works on vibrant and unique characters reflect his love for a low-brow, or “kitsch” art style, Myriam Mechita, a teacher and artist who makes use of common objects like pearls, embroidery, and sequins to assemble contradictory images, and Fabrice Hyber, who accumulates his philosophical ideas on ecology and society and propagates it in his drawings, paintings, and even installations.
The exhibition will run until June 12, 2014 at the MET’s Tall Galleries. Visit the MET at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Complex, Roxas Boulevard, Manila. Museum hours are from 10am to 5:30 p.m, Monday to Saturday. For more details, email info@metmuseum.ph or check the museum’s Facebook page. For inquiries please call Sabrina Alday at 708-7828.
