Manila: Artinformal Gallery
By Dominic Zinampan
Unguided by any exhibition text, visitors to Artinformal Gallery in Greenhills may have been confounded by “Familiar Hunting, Unfamiliar Gathering” at first. However, this did not indicate the absence of any curatorial framing. The gallery, repurposed from a two-story house, was neatly divided between the four artists Miguel Aquilizan, Nice Buenaventura, Jessica Dorizac, and Costantino Zicarelli. Given their sharply contrasting sensibilities, the presentations initially appeared incongruous, yet several passes around the space yielded the chance to divine meaning from the show’s title, and to sense unexpected affinities between the works on display.
