ALPAS

07/05/2025

𝗧𝗮𝘆𝗺 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝟰: 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮

📅 8 May 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
📍 Summit Ridge Tagaytay

In Taym Pers 4, ALPAS Art Group extends its inquiry into the cultural and philosophical resonances of childhood games. This time bridging the vernacular play of Filipino youth with the shared heritage of Southeast Asia. Here, traditional games become more than pastimes as they emerge as common languages, mapping kinships across borders long before official unions like ASEAN were imagined.

As the world rushes toward automation and hyper-efficiency, Taym Pers 4 reclaims the child’s body in motion as a site of resilience, imagination, and communal rhythm. From patintero to sepak takraw, the exhibit draws parallels between the spontaneous order of street play and the quiet diplomacy of coexistence. The playing field becomes a stage where ethics are rehearsed, borders are softened, and identity is performed with joy and friction alike.

Through interactive installations, archival interventions, and community storytelling, ALPAS invites viewers to consider how the games of our childhood are not relics, but rehearsals for a more grounded, regional solidarity. In play, as in peace, we learn to move together.

23/11/2024

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20/11/2024

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The title “Taym Pers,” a colloquial Filipino phrase meaning “time out,” is apt for the exhibit. It invites visitors to take a pause

12/11/2024

We invite you to join us on Sunday, November 17, at 4:00 PM for the opening of “Spaces of Dailiness”.

Spaces of Dailiness is a group exhibition that endeavours to enliven attentiveness to the textures and tensions of everyday life as they play out in a range of settings, including the home, the street, the cobbler’s workshop and the farm.

The show features the works of Lawrence Borsoto, Buhay Mendoza, Jun Tuplano, Jade Cabauatan, Nic Navarro, and Jonathan Joven. Each of these artists proffers a particular angle of vision from which to consider, and reconsider, phenomena construed as mundane and familiar, and therefore unremarkable – even as they connect to, and undergird, broader discourses of social life.

Spaces of Dailiness will open at vMeme Contemporary Art Gallery @ Young Artists Studio, 3rd Level, Estancia Mall East Wing, Pasig City. Exhibit runs from 17 November until 6 December 2024.

09/11/2024

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📍Art Cube Philippines Artist Reception November 9 at 6pm

07/11/2024

Opening Day! ❤️
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07/11/2024

A Little throwback to our younger self 👧🏼👦

07/11/2024

Taympers 3 at
Robinsons Galleria
Visit our show until November 15!

03/11/2024

ALPAS ART GROUP presents our third solo exhibit as an art group entitled Taym Pers 3. [Taym Pers, in the Filipino kids’ lingo means “Time Out” or “let’s pause first” or “let’s take a break first”.]

Taym Pers 3 is the next segment of what we hope will be a series of more segments to present and reminisce on the traditional and indigenous Filipino games.

In this world where artificial intelligence (AI) technology has invaded and taken over human chores, other operations and even relations, the ALPAS Art Group has been nostalgic of the past. For one, it has long dreamed of seeing the revival of the traditional and native games as these feature our simple joys, aspirations, petty quarrels/disagreements, and even our daily toils as a close-knit people.

The games are in themselves, a form of education in human relations and personality or character development. The taym pers practice of our children is a mimicry of life in this world where level playing fields in business, government, and creed are demanded. The games force children to be patient even if the “winning/victory” is one step or one breath away. It teaches them magnanimity in victory, and humility and dignity in defeat. The games’ dynamics are their lessons in negotiations, diplomacy and friendships as well as honesty and the rule of law as they call for taympers.

- Charmaine Narne

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17/10/2024

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📆 ‘Echoes of Silence: Guardians of Untamed’

Artist Reception: 17 October (Th) at 4PM.

📍Visit Art Anton at G/F, S Maison at Conrad, Marina Way, MOA Complex, Pasay City 1300. Gallery is open daily from 10 am to 10 pm.

Upcoming Exhibit | ‘Echoes of Silence: Guardians of Untamed’ by Otto Neri

In a world where silence holds profound power, and the untamed spirit of both nature and humanity converge. In his evocative solo exhibition, Echoes of Silence: Guardians of Untamed, Otto Neri invites us to explore the subtle tensions between strength and vulnerability, authority and resistance.

Born in Quezon City, Philippines, Neri’s artistic journey began at a young age, evolving into a distinctive style that seamlessly blends social realism with iconography, humor, and cultural contrasts.

📆 ‘Echoes of Silence: Guardians of Untamed’ by will run from 17 October — 06 November 2024.

Artist Reception: 17 October (Th) at 4PM.

📍Visit Art Anton at G/F, S Maison at Conrad, Marina Way, MOA Complex, Pasay City 1300. Gallery is open daily from 10 am to 10 pm.