MAGNIFYING MINDANAO

A Monterona Art Exhibit
September 7-17, 2004

Institute of Asian Research
The University of British Columbia
1855 West Mall, C.K. Choi Building

Opening Night Reception:
September 8, 2004, 5:00 p.m.

Bert Monterona is a Filipino painter who also designs, sculpts and paints murals for stage performances and TV shows. A recipient of various grants and awards from Japan Group SUSA, Australia Council for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center and Freeman Foundation, Australian Embassy-Manila, University of Western Australia, Asian People’s Theatre Festival Society, Hong Kong Arts Centre, and Philip Morris Asian Awards, he has done solo exhibitions in Japan, Australia, United States, South Korea, Hong Kong and Canada.

CSEAR Seminar Series:
“Mindanao Culture, History and Tribal Motifs” By Bert Monterona

September 10, 2004
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Rm. 120, CK Choi Bldg.

In this seminar and slide show presentation, Monterona will discuss the evolution of his art works and techniques inspired by myths and the laws of nature as they exist in tribal communities and memories. His wall hanging-tapestries are a celebration of indigenous culture, its myths and rituals, its artistic expressions. The entire field is covered with a rich overlay of multifarious motifs, such as cloud scallops, triangles of mountain ranges, radiating forms of land marks and landscape contours, flame-like and leaf-like shapes from wild plants and vines, flowing rivers, dance and create pulsating rhythms on the visualized ground.