Philippine Consulate General hosts new art exhibition

There is a new art exhibition at the Philippine Consulate General in Al Qusais, Dubai.

- Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter

Under the “Museo sa Konsulado,” this is the “Kata I and Kata II,” an immersion of the public into the visual arts-cum-contemplative melody by a mother and son.

It rocks and lullabies them to that time and space of how languages and peoples are interknitted altogether. Even as the vast deep, the gargantuan concrete jungles and the jagged summits mean separation and God-willing, reunion.

The mother is Higher Colleges of Technology in Sharjah faculty member Susan Villanueva-De Guzman, recognised by public and private institutions in the UAE and overseas for her contributions in her advocacies through education.

She has been globally recognised for her expanding portfolios of graphic designs and oil-watercolour-acrylic paintings and murals.

Her son, whom she had requested “to arrange” the contemplative melody, is Canada-based Patrick Zyrille, “a storyteller, an instructional designer, an artist, and an animator.”

In his welcome address at the Friday inauguration of the “Kata I and Kata II” - the “third public exhibition” of the “inseparable” murals - both at 1.9X2.4 metres metallic/acrylic and foil leaf, Consul General Marford Angeles tackled a bit the semantics of “kata.”