Dateline: 14 July 2018, GSIS Museo ng Sining, Pasay City
Decided to post this painting first - "Ikarus" by Aileen Jacob - among the entries and winners of the 2018 GSIS Art Competition, currently on exhibit at the GSIS Museo ng Sining in Pasay City. Hundreds are on display, and this one was at an unfortunate location, behind a tarpaulin banner announcing the event, boxed off by an adjacent tinted glass door that's permanently pulled open (during the Museum's regular operating hours).
The results of this year's competition is one rare occasion which my personal preferences MOSTLY did not match the jurors (as announced on the GSIS website). I agree that John Paul Dalisay's "Pieta" was best among entries to the sculpture category; there are usually fewer entries in this category compared to the two painting categories. I had other preferences to mostly those adjudged finalists and best in the painting categories. I found myself disagreeing to those that bagged the grand prizes, "FeedARAL" (Ariel N. Catarao) in representational, and "Life is All About Moving" (Arnulfo Malapit Ragma II) in non-representational. Not that they "stole the show;" they are good entries per their respective categories, but I found better ones to my taste. (Then again, I'm no judge.)
As far as I know, the GSIS Art Competition is open to both student and non-student artists, has three categories (representational and non-representational painting, and sculpture), and is not limited to a theme. Competitions like this are a good place to check the social pulse, or the zeitgeist according to people who are capable to interpret it through art.
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