Gallery News: Gus Albor at Galleria Duemila

Gus Albor appropriates the body with a utilitarian pretext in  “Epicentre,” which opens on Dec. 7 at Galleria Duemila, 210 Loring St., Pasay City. The show runs until Jan. 30, 2015.

Albor pays tribute to Yves Klein’s “Anthropometries” through an array of soothing gray tonalities and figurations imprinted by using the female body as a paintbrush. All this offers a nostalgic context as he renders compositions over his old landscape paintings.

For inquiries, call 833-9815 or visit www.galleriaduemila.com.

* * *

Six shows at Nineveh Artspace

In celebration of its 11th anniversary, Nineveh Artspace holds four solo shows and two group shows — “Mananampalataya” by Melvin Culaba, “Untitled Paradise” by Kitty Taniguchi, “Buradol” by Jeffrey Salon, “Pasko Pilipino” by Jojo Barquilla, “Alternate Route” by Arturo Sanchez Jr. and eight other Angono artists, and “Pa-Tour, Pa-Tor” by Kalye Kolektib — which are slated from Nov. 30 to Dec. 14 at Nineveh Artspace, 2452 1st Ave., Villa Silangan Subd., Sta. Cruz, Laguna.

Noel Soler Cuizon curates the show.

For inquiries, call 527-6617 or SMS 0905-3566054.

* * *

SYM at SM Art Center Cebu

Sofronio Ylanan Mendoza (SYM) holds his homecoming exhibition “Summation 1978-2014,” which is on view until Dec. 21 at the newly renovated SM Art Center in Cebu.

The show is organized by the Hiraya Gallery, in cooperation with SM Art Center Cebu and SM Seaside City Cebu.

For details, call 523-3331 or visit www.hiraya.com.

* * *

Rachel Rillo at Silverlens

Rachel Rillo reaffirms photography’s object-ness in “Flower Flies Mimic Wasps,” which opens on Nov. 27 at Silverlens, 2320 Don Chino Roces Ave. Ext., Makati City. The show runs until Dec. 20.

The deeper one looks, the clearer one sees that more than the pictured subject matter, the photographs speak more about the medium itself, its inherent mimetic abilities, its overlooked physicality and its yet inalienable capacity to register and simulate truth.

For details, call 816-0044 or visit www.silverlensgalleries.com.

* * *

Jonathan Castro, Arden Mopera and Resty Tica at Kaida Contemporary

Jonathan Castro, Arden Mopera and Resty Tica dissect change as the only constant thing in the world in “Nothing is Permanent Except Change,” currently on view at Kaida Contemporary, 45 Scout Madrinan St., South Triangle, QC.

For inquiries, call 709-0289, SMS 0927-9297129 or email kaida529@yahoo.com.ph.

* * *

Pandy Aviado at Ayala Museum

Pandy Aviado marks his 50th year in printmaking with “Graven Images: 1964-2014, Pandy Aviado, 50 Years of Printmaking,” which opens tomorrow at the Ground Floor Gallery of Ayala Museum, De La Rosa St., Makati City. The show runs until Jan. 11, 2015.

“Graven Images” features 161 prints; over a hundred are from the artist’s personal collection, supplemented with loans from cultural institutions and private lenders. The majority of the prints are in the artist’s favored technique of etching, but the show also displays works woodcuts, rubbercuts, lithography, as well as rare prints done by solar etching and epoxy relief.

For information, call 759-8288 or email hello@ayalamuseum.org.

* * *

‘Art and Jazz’ at Alliance Total Gallery

The Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium, Galerie Astra and the Alliance Française de Manille present “Art and Jazz” on Dec. 2 at Alliance Total Gallery, Alliance Française de Manille in Makati City.

The art and music event features “Momentum,” an art collaboration between artists Cesar Caballero, Ramon Diaz, Rico Lascano and Bertrand Peret at Alliance Total Gallery; and a jazz concert by TAB, a trio from Belgium, composed of Alex Beaurain, Frédéric Becker and Frédéric Malempré at the Multi-Purpose Hall.

For information, call 895-7585.