Dateline: 26 May 2018, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City
Birthday leave, took a day off from work. Decided to spend it on a marathon visit to exhibits in UP Diliman: Bulwagan ng Dangal, Vargas Museum, and the College of Fine Arts. Wanted to visit UP Press bookstore too.
First of eight exhibitions was Super Robot + Suffer Reboot by Toym Imao at the Bulwagan ng Dangal, or part of the basement of Gonzalez Hall (more commonly known as UP Main Library) with entrance access separate from the Library. The entrance used to be a tambayan in my time (UP Mountaineers, I think).
Many references to childhood - Voltes V, Mazinger Z, Daimos, and of course, Marcosian and Martial Law histories. The accurate versions, or before this social media onslaught of revisionism. Full of color, lighting effects and symbolism, the exhibit is both fanciful and disquieting. It's worth hours of experiencing and repeated visits.
Toym Imao, in introducing this exhibit, explained: "This was my childhood, old school, analog filled with fictional super robots and real life heroes fighting the bad guys and villains in all of its incarnations and manifestations."
[This post is ante-dated, 20180611]
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