Do you have an Ayco?

Paste Article HereA retrospective exhibit featuring the works of renowned Negros artist Jess Ayco, considered the “Father of Modern Art in Negros”, will open at the Balay ni Tana Dicang in Talisay City, Negros Occidental, on Nov. 14 and run until January.

The exhibit that will be part of the events lined up for the Visayan Islands Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference will be held in Negros Occidental Nov. 14-16, Dennis Ascalon, Viva ExCon exhibition head, said yesterday.

Ascalon said there will be three major exhibitions during the conference, with one designed to pay tribute to the works of Ayco, forerunner of modern art in Negros in the late 50s and early 60s.

The Ayco exhibit will be curated by Dr. Patrick Flores, curator of the Vargas Museum at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.

Documentation of Ayco works is in progress, Ascalon said.

The elder of the two sons of the late Leon Ayco and the former Encarnacion Ramos was known earlier as Jesus Ramos Ayco, but later changed the spelling of his name to “Aiko”.

He studied architecture at the University of Sto. Tomas, and Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines. He was an artist, stage director, and set and costume designer.

His works had won prizes in national competitions of the Art Association of the Philippines.

Those who possess works by Ayco, who would like to have them documented, exhibited and catalogued as part of this project, can get in touch with Adjie Lizares of the Balay ni Tana Dicang, he said.*

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IN SAGAY
ARP Europe
holds art workshop

Representatives of Art Relieves Poverty who visited Sagay City, Negros Occidental, recently held free art workshops for 50 students of the Sagay Central Elementary School, a press release from organizers said.

The workshop was conducted by Bacolod artists Ernie Claud and Joan Honoridez, ARP volunteer Paul Inkofer from Vienna, Austria, with the help of Dante Arriola, vice president of ARP-Bacolod, the press release also said.

Vivien Ros Gstrein, daughter of ARP founder Razel Gonzales-Gstrein, attended the workshop in Sagay, it said.

Sagay Central ES principal Lyn Gorospe, Brgy. Captain Marlon Villanueva, Schools Division superintendent Evelyn de Juan, and a member of the staff of Sagay Mayor Alfredo Marañon III attended the opening ceremony.

Founded in 2008, ARP aims to provide disadvantaged children with free access to art materials and volunteer-led workshops. A series of fund-raising events was launched in Europe, and in Vienna, Austria.

In 2011, students at the University of Cambridge in England launched the ARP charity art workshops and fund raising events that ended November 2012 in an ethical fashion show, the press release added.*

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