Objects and Apparitions
Norberto Roldan
09 August – 07 September 2008
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09 August – 07 September 2008
Norberto Roldan borrows the title of his exhibition from a poem by Octavio Paz. This Latin-American poet and 1990 Nobel laureate wrote it for Joseph Cornell.
The exhibition traces back Roldan’s major installations from the Lopez Museum’s RX: Critical Remedies (2001), to Fukuoka Asian Art Museum’s commissioned works for Santo: Holy Sculptures (2003), and Charles Darwin University Gallery’s Mother of Perpetual Colony (2004), to Alliance Française de Manille’s Confessional Box (2006).
Although Roldan is currently preoccupied with painting, these installations comprise his main body of works since 2000 to the present. Some of these installations have not been shown in Manila. Two installations are still making their rounds in international exhibitions, like the Galleon Trade: Bay Area Now 5 Edition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, which opens this September; and Beyond Frame: Philippine Photomedia opening at University of Technology Sydney Gallery in October, which will move to La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre in Melbourne, July of next year before coming home to Ateneo Art Gallery in Quezon City in late 2009.
About the Artist
About the Artists
Norberto Roldan (b. 1953, Roxas City) is a multimedia artist. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the St. Pius X Seminary, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, and a Masters in Art studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Roldan is currently the artistic director of Green Papaya Art Projects, an alternative multidisciplinary platform which he co-founded in 2000.
He has represented the Philippines in various international exhibitions in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the USA. He was represented in three landmark surveys of Southeast Asian contemporary art, including New Art from Southeast Asia by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (1992), Negotiating Home History and Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1991–2011 by the Singapore Art Museum and most recently, No Country: Contemporary Art For South / Southeast Asia by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2013). His works are included in collections worldwide, such as those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, the Singapore Art Museum, the Deutsche Bank, the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the San Miguel Corporation, the Ateneo Art Gallery, the Bencab Museum, the Carlos Oppen Cojuangco Foundation, the Artour Holdings Singapore, to name a few.
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About the Artists
About the Artist
Norberto Roldan (b. 1953, Roxas City) is a multimedia artist. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the St. Pius X Seminary, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communications from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, and a Masters in Art studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Roldan is currently the artistic director of Green Papaya Art Projects, an alternative multidisciplinary platform which he co-founded in 2000.
He has represented the Philippines in various international exhibitions in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the USA. He was represented in three landmark surveys of Southeast Asian contemporary art, including New Art from Southeast Asia by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (1992), Negotiating Home History and Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1991–2011 by the Singapore Art Museum and most recently, No Country: Contemporary Art For South / Southeast Asia by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2013). His works are included in collections worldwide, such as those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, the Singapore Art Museum, the Deutsche Bank, the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the San Miguel Corporation, the Ateneo Art Gallery, the Bencab Museum, the Carlos Oppen Cojuangco Foundation, the Artour Holdings Singapore, to name a few.
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