14/07/2020
To make its collections, exhibitions and public programs accessible to the public as we are not yet authorized to open, the is launching the catalog of Bert Monterona’s exhibition All Out Peace Not War/Kalinaw Hindi Digmaan — the second in the series of the online launches of the NMP, which is part of our program. This online catalog along with other publications could be accessed through our website. To download for free, click this link:
http://nationalmuseum.gov.ph/…/BMonterona%20Exhibition%20Ca….
To make its collections, exhibitions and public programs accessible to the public as we are not yet authorized to open, the is launching the catalog of Bert Monterona’s exhibition All Out Peace Not War/Kalinaw Hindi Digmaan — the second in the series of the online launches of the NMP, which is part of our program. This online catalog along with other publications could be accessed through our website. To download for free, click this link:
http://nationalmuseum.gov.ph/nationalmuseumbeta/img/BMonterona%20Exhibition%20Catalog.pdf.
The exhibition features 22 works of Monterona highlighting his advocacies against war, women and children’s rights, migration, peace-building and environmental protection. On February 2018, this exhibition was opened at the Eastern-Northern Mindanao Regional Museum in Butuan City, Agusan del Norte to celebrate National Arts Month and was shown for more than a year. In November 29, 2019, celebrating the Mindanao Week of Peace, the exhibition was inaugurated at the Western Southern Mindanao Regional Museum in Fort Pilar, Zamboanga and will run until October 25 this year. Through his large-scale tapestry works, the artist underscores the role of his art in preserving indigenous artistic practices while addressing social issues in our country, particularly in Mindanao.
Norberto “Bert” Monterona grew up in Bukidnon with his Talaandig mother and Cebuano father. An internationally-acclaimed artist, educator and cultural worker, he has launched numerous exhibitions focusing on Mindanao indigenous people and their culture in the Philippines, Japan, Australia, Europe and the United States since 1987. He was also the Regional Coordinator for Mindanao of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts from 1996-2001. In 2006, he received the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) award as international artist and granted a permanent resident status of the Province of British Columbia, Canada.
In 2015, Bert's tapestry paintings were exhibited in Gisors, France as guest artist during the Grand Baz' Art International Art Festival and in Hong Kong at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Center. He is also the founder and main visual arts facilitator of the Philippine Artists Network for Community Integrative Transformation of Migrante BC, Vancouver, Canada. At present, he serves as artist-in-residence of the Leigh Square Community Arts Village Mural Project, City of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.
The has already made accessible online two of its publications, a monograph on the painting El As*****to del Gobernador Bustamante by Felix Resurrección Hidalgo and the exhibition catalog on Shifts in Context by Ofelia Gelvezon-Tequi. We hope that through these educational programs, we are able to ease your anxieties and make your time during quarantine productive and worthwhile.
Text and poster by Danelyn Sumaylo/NMP FAD
© National Museum of the Philippines (2020)
