Monet & Friends Alive! BGC Arts Center, Taguig City

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We got to sit down with Bonifacio Art Foundation Managing Director, Maria Isabel Garcia, to talk about the current exhibit, Monet & Friends Alive, French Impressionism, and why everyone should come and visit.

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00:00 It's the outlier.

00:01 Diba nandun nga sila sa salon de refusé?

00:04 As a curator, what I really latch onto is the holistic understanding

00:11 of the role of the Impressionist movement in art history.

00:15 The overall theme talaga is a good representation

00:17 across the 15 French Impressionists

00:20 or the two or three Americans who were inspired by the French Impressionists.

00:25 How these now supposed to be prestigious were really radicals then.

00:30 That even if they didn't get along with each other,

00:33 for somehow they formed a collective which came to be known now

00:36 by all of us as the Impressionists.

00:39 But equally, it was rather than you trying to grasp a framed painting,

00:46 it wants the story and the artwork to embrace you.

00:50 You have them all in one place

00:54 and then it's immersive, meaning you can stand there

00:58 and not have to figure out,

00:59 "Anong gagawin ko dito? Tinitingna ko 'tong painting na 'to.

01:02 Anong relasyon nito sa susunod?"

01:03 Blown up this way, you'd see the emotions of how strong the stroke was,

01:08 of how persistent the points are to form an image.

01:12 Here, it provides you that accessibility,

01:14 not just to the practical accessibility,

01:17 the pricing and that it's in the Philippines,

01:20 but in terms of your emotions.

01:22 You can relate to the artist because the story is part of the whole curation.

01:26 It tells you, "They felt this way when they were painting it."

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