Press Release no. 21-2015
07 December 2015
The Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah informs the Filipino community in the Western Region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that a month-long exhibition entitled “Encounter & Departure – Poklong Anading Solo Exhibition” will be held starting on 06 January 2016, until 27 January 2016 at the Athr Gallery, Serafi Mega Mall, Jeddah, K.S.A.
The event will feature the artworks of Poklong Anading, an acclaimed Filipino multi-awarded, Manila-based conceptual artist who creates photographs, videos, installation and sculptures. Poklong Anading was born in 1975, in Manila, Philippines. He earned a BFA in painting from the College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines (1999). He completed residencies with Big Sky Mind, Manila (2003–04), and Common Room, Bandung, Indonesia (2008). In 2006, he received the Ateneo Studio Residency Grant in Australia and a Cultural Center of the Philippines 13 Artists Award. Anading won the Ateneo Art Award in 2006 and 2008.
Poklong Anading has been included in notable group exhibitions such as: Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2002 and 2012);Galleon Trade: Bay Area Now 5, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2008);Some Rooms, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong (2009);Arena, 8th Jakarta Biennial (2009);Bastards of Misrepresentation, Freies Museum, Berlin (2010), which traveled to Bangkok and New York (2012);Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2012); andMarcel Duchamp in Southeast Asia, Equator Art Projects, Singapore (2012).
The “Encounter & Departure – Poklong Anading Solo Exhibition”, which will also be participated in by other foreign artists, is being organized by the Athr Gallery, a leading contemporary art gallery based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
All Filipino art lovers in the Western Region of the Kingdom are cordially invited to attend the opening of the exhibition on Thursday, 09 December 2015 at 7:30 PM to be held at 5th floor, Space 01, Office Towers, Serafi Mega Mall, Tahlia Street, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Everyone is enjoined to support Poklong Anading and promote the Philippine arts by extending the invitation to your colleagues and friends. (Admission to the exhibit is free).
For additional information about the exhibition, please contact Athr Gallery at telephone number +966-2845009 or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. END.
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BIOGRAPHY
Poklong Anading's artistic expression has ever since been and is with an investigative, descriptive character, continuously pioneering multi media and installation art in the Philippines.
He first focused on experimental video projects and increasingly explored installation, painting and conceptual works and has at various points made use of discarded objects, found in the streets of Manila. Concepts are often based on an interactive approach, encountering and offering the possibility of participation to the viewer.
As a student of Roberto Chabet, he graduated at the University of the Philippines in 1999 and besides awarded for his work several times nationally, his practice has also been well recognized internationally. Anading has been partaking in the most important Asian Biennials and international exhibitions and has been working with and invited by curators like MamiKataoka, Alia Swastika, Eugene Tan, and June Yap. His photographic work "Counter Acts I" was collected and exhibited by the Guggenheim Foundation New York and included in the exhibition "No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia" in the Center for Contemporary Art in Singapore.
Continuity is imperative to Poklong Anading's artistic practice. A vast part of his projects, therefore conceptual approaches, is based on the notion of deductive research - collecting as an act, as a method to extract the essential but then portray the organic appropriateness of dissimilarity.
The artist participated in the Gwangju Biennale twice, in 2002 and 2012. He was invited to the Jakarta Biennale in 2009 and is awardee of the 12thGawad CCP (Manila, Philippines) for Experimental Video in 2000 and of the Thirteen Artists Awards (Manila, Philippines) in 2006. He is a two-time recipient of the Ateneo Art Awards (Manila, Philippines 2006 and 2008) and the Studio Residency Grants in The Kings Cross Art Project (Sydney, Australia) and the Common Networks Foundation (Bandung, Indoneasia) and in Centre Intermondes (La Rochelle, France).
In 2012 Anading was invited to contribute his work series “Anonymity“ to the exhibition "Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past" in the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (California, USA) and works of the artists have been exhibited in the ZentrumfürKunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (Germany) and the Yokahama Museum of Art(Japan).
Poklong Anading was born in Manila in 1975. He lives and works in the Philippines.
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