1 well strictly speaking, conceptual art is really 40++ years old anyway. should it age differently here in the philippines?

2 nilo ilarde is not a young artist, he’s been doing this for a long time, maybe close to 30 years already.

3 i don’t expect joseph kosuth to suddenly make text works out of cigarette burns on paper or something. of course he will use his own ‘vocabulary’ and artistic strategies. He will use text, some neon perhaps and refer to some philosophical concept. And i don’t think anyone can fault him for that.

4 i don’t know if esmeralda is actually a filipino pretending to be an outsider, but if he/she is a foreigner then she must try to understand the context and history of filipino conceptual art first before condemning it across the board.

5 i’ve heard comments like “they are just copying what they see in art in america, etc” before and usually it comes from social realists or 70s era abstract expressionist painters. i also hear it from intelligent but not really good artists who ended up as bitter art teachers.

6 actually every aspect of this whole show is a derivative- derived from art history, from the gallery space, from other artists. i think that is the whole point. I think he tried to answer how a show can be made without really creating anything new.

7 conceptual art as a movement is old. conceptual artists are either old, dead or dying. but there are young artists everywhere who are using concept-based strategies in making works that deal with contemporary issues. there are also artists like that in the philippines. and in malaysia as well.

8 its funny how you negate nilo’s use of irony and accuse him of brown nosing just because you think he “Ilarde is trying to tell people that he is sophisticated and that he knows conceptual art” but isn’t that exactly what you did in your comment? you paraded your knowledge of art history concluded that the only people who can appreciate this work are those who don’t know art history the way you do or amnesiacs who have forgotten.

Thanks!

If the artist makes his quotations so obvious (to you atleast :P I hardly read these ad laden magazines anymore), couldn’t it be said that way he has removed the contextual issues and replayed them in the Philippines allows us to find the universal points that remains once social and political stories have come and gone and what is left is the cultural legacies to be debated?

Claiming something as ‘derivitive’ is a very unconvincing form of attack in this pomo megamix age. Roman architecture and sculpture was very derivitive of the Ancient Greeks but who makes a big fuss about that? Historians are generally thankful to the Romans for helping to preserve, enriching and spreading Hellenistic culture.

I had a dream this morning of an outdoor exhibition where merely the frames of a gallery were build and pictures floated in mid-air thanks to fishing wires. Must have been the influence of this articles and your sharp critiques.

DC

who’s this anyway? why can’t ppl put in their real names? what’s to hide?

but somehow, i think i know who jbite is…not alot of ppl think i am funny…..

hahaha…u should come to malaysia!!!!