Ateneo Art Gallery
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Established | 1960 |
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Location | Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Philippines |
Type | University museum |
Director | Ma. Victoria "Boots" Herrera |
Website | https://ateneoartgallery.com/ |
The Ateneo Art Gallery is a museum of modern art of the Ateneo de Manila University. It is the first of its kind in the Philippines.[1] It serves as an art resource for the university community and the general public as well. The Gallery is located at the Arts Wing, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City.
Widely recognized today as the first museum of Philippine modern art, The Ateneo Art Gallery was established in 1960 through Fernando Zóbel's bequest to the Ateneo of his collection of works by key Filipino post war artists.[2] Through the years other philanthropists and artists followed Zobel's initiative, filling in the gaps so that the collection now surveys every Philippine art movement in the post war era: from neo-realism and abstract expressionism to today's post-modern hybrid tendencies. The Gallery's fine prints and drawings consist of over 300 works by local and international artists from the Renaissance to the present. The etchings, engravings, woodcuts, lithographs and other graphic-arts media represent over 80 artists, including Rembrandt, Goya, Delacroix, Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso.
Collection
The Ateneo Art Gallery holds over 500 artworks that include paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, photographs and posters.
While the Fernando Zóbel bequest includes works of an earlier generation — notably
Through the years, other philanthropists and artists followed Zóbel's initiative to donate works of art to the Gallery, filling gaps in the collection with characteristic pieces by Galo Ocampo and Nena Saguil, among others.[citation needed]
The Gallery is renowned for having the country's most comprehensive collection of works by the social realists of the 1970s and 80s. It also has an active acquisition program to represent key examples of today's postmodern hybrid tendencies in the permanent collection. Contemporary artists represented include Egai Talusan Fernandez, Imelda Cajipe-Endaya and Brenda Fajardo.[citation needed]
Gallery
References
- ISBN 978-971-8551-39-4.
- ^ Samuya Veric, Charlie (2017). "Fernando Zobel and the making of the Ateneo Art Gallery: modern art, postcolonial statehood, and the utopian imagination in twentieth-century Philippines". Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia. 7.1: 25–42.
- ISBN 978-981-4068-96-3.
- ^ "Ateneo Art Gallery Exhibitions". Ateneo de Manila University. Ateneo de Manila University. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
External links
- Media related to Ateneo Art Gallery at Wikimedia Commons
Literature
- Lenzi, Iola (2004). Museums of Southeast Asia. Singapore: Archipelago Press. p. 200. ISBN 981-4068-96-9.