BAI NU GALANG (Women of the Brass)
Leonardo Cariño’s 5th One-Man Exhibit
“In Bai Nu Galang, Leonardo Cariño captures the domestic life of Maguindanaon women (from cooking, weaving, to teaching children read the Qur’an), with each painting punctuated by a brass ware that symbolizes a people’s cultural pride and ancestry. Using a conflagration of vibrant colors, Cariño elevates the banal and mundane to render them as an all important labor that has sustained the Maguindanaon throughout centuries of glorious albeit tumultuous history. But with strife taking its toll: most of the brass, kept by families from generation to generation, are no longer there. They have become trophies of war, their weight a burden to the Maguindanaon who have endured the hardships brought upon by decades of war. Through Cariño’s careful hands, the artist has brought them back at the center of his canvas, thematizing what is now absent as the permeating presence that will remain the Maguindanaon’s source of pride.” (Teng Mangansakan, curator)
BAI NU GALANG (Women of the Brass)
Exhibit Dates and Venues:
November 19-December 12, 2018
11th Floor Community Center
Ateneo de Davao University, Davao City, Philippines
December 15-22, 2018
Sharif Kabungsuan Festival
Cotabato City, Philippines
February 2019
National Arts Month Celebration
MSU-IIT, Iligan City, Philippines