DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 16 October) – Mindanao Art 2022 opened Friday night at The Club at Northtown in Cabantian, a huge venue for hundreds of paintings, sculptures and installations by…
DAVAO CITY – Mindanao Art 2022 opened Friday night at The Club at Northtown in Cabantian, a huge venue for hundreds of paintings, sculptures and installations by Mindanawon artists inside and outside the exhibit halls, on the open field and by the poolside. Mindanao Art Fair runs until November 5, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. This year’s theme is “Aligned and Interconnected.”
An art industry “that is grounded on the roots of Mindanao. Di lang kumikita but kitang-kita na Mindanao siya” , Lawig-Diwa secretary/treasurer Stella Estremera said at the press conference in 2019. Estremera, former Editor in Chief of Sun.Star Davao, is now Associate Publisher. The pandemic notwithstanding, they continued mounting the art fair – in 2020 at the Malayan College along Matina with the theme “Living Art in a New Landscape and in 2021d at the Poblacion Market Central downtown.
This year alone, he said, they were able to mentor more than a hundred young artists from the provinces of Davao de Oro, South Cotabato, and North Cotabato, the Caraga Region, and General Santos City. Artists, he said, are “our own tribe, we feel their difficulties, we feel their hunger, we listen to their needs and dreams and we try to share what we can because our eyes are on the horizon, not the now. And in the horizon we see artists creating without having to beg for their subsistence. We see artists who can command their prices. Artists whose God-given talents are recognized, respected, bought at a fair price, and collected as investments.
While 32 is a substantial number, representation to make it more Mindanawon is still wanting. Of the 32 art groups, for example, 20 or 62.5% are from the Davao region. Of the 20, 14 are from Davao City . Based on the list released by the organizers, there is no representation from Region 9 and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
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