Cesare Syjuco News Archive

Mighty Big Flashback

Mighty Big Flashback

His New Literary Hybrids @ Mag:Net Katipunan

Opens with an evening of performed poetry on June 13, 7:00 PM

An Act of Bad Faith

An Act of Bad Faith

An installation of his new Literary Hybrids @ The Penguin,

Remedios Circle, Malate Manila

Live performances on opening night, June 7, 9:00 PM...

Cesare & The Electric Underground Collective: All The Usual Supects

Cesare & The Electric Underground Collective: All The Usual Supects

A Late Evening of Performed Poetry @ Riccio Renzo Gallery,

LRI Business Plaza, 210 Nicanor Garcia, Makati City - 05.26.2007 8:00 to 10:00 PM...

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Homonyms of Recent History @ Ricco-Renzo Galleries

Homonyms of Recent History @ Ricco-Renzo Galleries

"Homonyms of Recent History"

Cesare A.X. Syjuco

Ricco-Renzo Galleries (LRI Business Plaza)

March 22, 2007 to April 30, 2007

Arts Iconoclast Cesare A.X. Syjuco recently opened his latest exhibition. Curated by Jean Marie Syjuco, with late-evening poetry performances.

Cesare A.X. Syjuco, a recipient of the TOYM, has won praises for his new experimental hybrid works which fuse literature and the visual arts. Alfred Yuson has called him the Radical Renaissance Man.

In a recent review, Angelo V. Suarez noted that Cesare A.X. Syjuco accomplishes this difficult juggling of disciplines. Viewers cannot escape the ensuing delectation. They are struck between the eyes, as it were. And this is a characteristic of Cesare's avant-gardism. He disposes with your neutrality, luring you to make a stand where otherwise you would be just an observer. Cesare A.X. Syjuco's picture-words are meant to disarm you, to jar you into the realization that there is much more than the usual literalness that resides in them.

Cesare A.X. Syjuco's "Homonyms of Recent History" is currently on view at the Ricco-Renzo Galleries (LRI Business Plaza).

For more details on "Homonyms of Recent History" by Cesare A.X. Syjuco at the

Ricco-Renzo Galleries, please call 898-2542.

Ricco-Renzo Galleries is located at LRI Business Plaza Ground Level, 210 Nicanor Garcia Street (Reposo), Bel-Air II, Makati City.

"Homonyms of Recent History" runs from March 22, 2007 to April 30, 2007.

Source: philippineartscene.blogspot.com 

WORD OF MOUTH

WORD OF MOUTH

PLAC + Friends LIVE! @ CCP

An evening of performed poetry with The Philippine Literary Arts Council on February 27, Tuesday, 6:30PM.

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Mighty Big Headstand

Mighty Big Headstand

Cesare's "Brand New Literary Hybrids" @ Mag:net Paseo

Mag:net / Paseo de Roxas / Makati City. On view thru February 17, 2007.

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Cesare @ The Poets' Alcove Mag:net Katipunan

Cesare @ The Poets' Alcove Mag:net Katipunan

A changing series of small showcase installations featuring his radical Literary Hybrids will be on view in Mag:net Katipunan thru February + March 2007.

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Cesare’s “Brand New Literary Hybrids” @ Mag:net

Cesare A.X. Syjuco

Mighty Big Headstand

2-17 February 2007

Mag:net Gallery Paseo

With words, text and poetry appearing more and more often in our art galleries today, Cesare A.X. Syjuco is now, more then ever, considered to be “an undisputed master of visual / literary hybrids” – acknowledging his groundbreaking experimental works since the ‘70s and ‘80s that fused art and literature into an indivisible whole.

Cesare’s mammoth-scale exhibition “Flashes of Genius” at the CCP Main Gallery in 2004-05 -- his first Manila appearance after an absence of nearly 12 years -- was unanimously hailed by both art and literary critics as “a stunning comeback… a major achievement for the arts as a whole”. And the 53-year-old renegade painter and poet, a TOYM awardee well known for his temperamental and reclusive nature, hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down since then.

His latest one-man-show, aptly titled “Mighty Big Headstand”, opens at Mag:net in Paseo de Roxas, Makati, on February 2, Friday, at 6 P.M. And far from renouncing his trademark texts, Cesare is turning on the heat and upping the ante with even more words and less paint than ever before.

“Mag:net is a lovely little gallery with intelligently planned spaces,” says Cesare of his intention to show his very latest transparent acrylic panels and lighted neons. “I thought it would be nice, for a change, to avoid the usual and to use the gallery like a kind of ‘book’ with clean new pages. I do miss that from showing too often in bigger, older spaces like CCP… and I’m looking forward here to a tighter, more aggressive show full of interesting twists and turns.”

The exhibit will be on view until February 17 only. For particulars, call Mag:net at 8177895 or email magnetplus@gmail.com or visit www.magnet.com.ph.

Source: http://www.magnet.com.ph 

Chromatext Reloaded at the CCP

Chromatext Reloaded at the CCP

INQUIRER.net

Last updated 02:16pm (Mla time) 01/17/2007

Chromatext Reloaded - a grand verse-cum-visual exhibit – will be mounted by the Philippine Literary Arts Council (PLAC) & Friends at the Main Gallery of the Cultural Center of the Philippines at 6pm on January 25, lasting till February 28. Two previous Chromatext exhibits by PLAC were held Pinaglabanan Galleries in San Juan in the1980s.

Some sixty Filipino poets and writers representing several generations from here and abroad get together for a rare visual cum textual art exhibit. The show turns a page from previous Chromatext I & II series.

This time curated by Sid Gomez Hildawa, Jean-Marie Syjuco and Krip Yuson, Chromatext Reloaded celebrates the 25th anniversary of PLAC, with its surviving founders Jimmy Abad, Cirilo Bautista, Ricky de Ungria and Krip Yuson leading the poet-exhibitors.

Their works — from holographs to photographs, illustrations with poems to oil paintings, sculptural installations to video — will be joined by those of other distinguished writers, among them National Artist Edith L. Tiempo, Gilda Cordero Fernando, Raul Ingles, Tita Lacambra-Ayala, Sylvia Mendez-Ventura, the late Lilia Amansec, Ophelia Dimalanta, Merlie Alunan, Marjorie Evasco, Butch Dalisay, Pete Lacaba, Cesare A.X. Syjuco, Jun Cruz Reyes, Juaniyo Arcellana, RayVi Sunico, Danton Remoto, Frank Rivera, Margot Marfori, and Sid Gomez Hildawa.

From abroad, PLAC members and friends have sent in their contributions - David Cortes Medalla in London and Eric Gamalinda, Nick Carbo, Luisa Igloria, Eileen Tabios, Zack Linmark, and Melissa Kristoffel-Nolledo in the U.S.A.

From Baguio City, participating poet-artists include Butch Macansantos, Babeth Lolarga. and Frank Cimatu. Special guest artists who happen to be close friends to writers, if not writers themselves, include National Artist Benedicto Cabrera (Bencab), Danny Dalena, Pandy Aviado, Fil Dela Cruz, Manny Baldemor, Rock Drilon, Jean-Marie Syjuco, Judy Sibayan, Heber Bartolome, Raul Funilla, Beaulah Taguiwalo, Erlinda Panlilio, Bheng Dalisay, Lorena Javier, Boy Yuchengco, Erlinda Panlilio, Marivic Rufino, Gerry Cornejo, Pancho Villanueva and Igan D'Bayan.

Among the younger generation of poets and writers joining the exhibit are Jovi Miroy, Vim Nadera, Fran Ng, Lourd de Veyra, Jessica Zafra, Sarge Lacuesta, Joel Toledo, Ana Escalante Neri, Ginny Mata, Carlomar Daoana, Mookie Katigbak, and Angelo Suarez.

Performance art, musical works and readings will highlight the exhibit opening at 6pm on Thursday, January 25 and the closing ceremonies at 7pm on February 27. The public is invited. Copies of the revived poetry journal Caracoa and special commemorative editions of CD albums featuring the recorded readings of PLAC poets will also be on sale for the duration of the exhibit. Gallery hours are from 10am to 6pm daily, except Mondays and holidays. Admission is free. For particulars, call 8323702.

- Krip Yuson

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer 

HOMAGE TO THE PAVEMENT

HOMAGE TO THE PAVEMENT

Cesare & the Electric Underground Collective

Blue Room Gallery, 24 NOVEMBER | FRIDAY | FROM 8PM

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THE BEST OF Cesare & the Electric Underground Collective

THE BEST OF Cesare & the Electric Underground Collective

Riccio Renzo Gallery, 27 OCTOBER | FRIDAY | FROM 9PM

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Surviving Friendly Fire

Surviving Friendly Fire

[The Raw Video Rushes!]

The Penguin, 04 AUGUST | FRIDAY | FROM 9PM

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A Tree Grows Underground

A Tree Grows Underground

Live! @ Angono, Rizal

Atelier Orville Tiamson, 08 JULY | FROM 6PM

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Cesare & The Electric Underground Collective

Cesare & The Electric Underground Collective

Live! @ Mag:net Katipunan

16 June | Friday | 8:30 PM

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Attacked From Underground

Attacked From Underground

Cesare Syjuco

Live @ Lumiere!

June 2, Friday, 9:30 PM

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Home is the Underground

Home is the Underground

Cesare Syjuco

Live @ the Penguin!

May 9, Tuesday, 8:00 PM

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A Noise From Underground

A Noise From Underground

Cesare Syjuco

Live! @ Conspiracy Garden Cafe

One Night Only!

April 25, Tuesday, 7 - 9 PM

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