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Metrobank Announces Winners
for 2007 Art Competition
October 2007
The Metrobank Art & Design Excellence (MADE) announces its winners for the 2007 national competition for architecture, interior design, painting, and sculpture. With theme, “Your Environment Shapes You”
The Metrobank Art & Design Excellence (MADE) announces its winners for the 2007 national competition for architecture, interior design, painting, and sculpture. With theme, “Your Environment Shapes You”, this year’s winning pieces highlights the interplay of the environment and use of design elements to enhance the aesthetic value of each of the pieces.
Architect Jose Ricardo Adriano wins the grand prize in the architecture category for his design, “The House of X: An extraordinarily cross-ventilated X-form home“. A contemporary Asian architecture, the house integrates design principles with modern technology and materials to create a climatically responsive structure in a tropical country like the Philippines.
Wilhemina S. Garcia’s “Living within Nature’s Confines” showcases various materials “categorically regarded as trash, waste, worn-out pieces into functional, innovative and tasteful furniture and accent pieces for the home.”
Cebu-based interior designer Cheryl Montebon was also given a special prize for her work entitled, “Cocoon.”
In the painting category, “Attack of the Righteous”, by Mark Andy Garcia received the highest honor for oil-based medium on canvass. Garcia said his painting is a pictorial narrative of the eternal conflict between Good and Evil inspired by biblical verses from the books of John and Matthew.
“Weaving Dreams”, a predominantly black artwork by Mervin Vergara won the grand prize for water media on paper. It is a surreal representation of the unraveling of the mine and its undefined expressions.
Other winners in the painting category are Lynyrd Arwyn Paras’ “LoveFaithHope” and Jaime Gubaton’s “Connected” in second and third place respectively.
The grand prize winner in the sculpture category is Harry Mark Gonzales’ creation, “A Protest Over the Guimaras Oil Spill”. Gonzales used his sculpture – a fish whose visage is a woman’s profile as though gasping for air – as an expression of a personal injury caused by an environmental catastrophe in Guimaras.
Special citations were given to young sculptors Rinald Sotto for “Bigayan” and Glennd Pagaduan for “Yakap.”
This year’s Metrobank Prize for Achievement is Sculpture (MPAS) was awarded to Juan Sajid Imao, son of National Artist Abdulmari Asia Imao.
All grand prize winners will receive P 200,000 cash prize and a glass trophy designed by sculptor Noell El Farol.
MADE advocates through the arts, a creative and sustainable environment for holistic human development, thus the tagline, “Your Environment Shapes You.” This annual Competition in Architecture, Interior Design, Painting and Sculpture aims to recognize talented artists with the passion to make our world responsive, sensitive and constantly dynamic. MADE is co-presented in partnership with Federal Land, Bluprint magazine, United Architects of the Philiipines, Philippine Institute of Interior Design and Metrobank Card Corporation.
The Metrobank Foundation is the corporate social responsibly arm of the Metrobank Group of Companies. Over the last 28 years, it has promoted a culture of excellence among Filipinos through its various programs notably the Search for Outstanding Teachers, the Metrobank Art and Design Excellence, The Outstanding Philippine Soldier, Country's Outstanding Policemen in Service, the Metrobank Math Challenge, and College Scholarship Program. The Foundation also has a grants program that assists NGOs and government in the fields of education, healthcare, and the arts. Metrobank Foundation celebrates Filipino excellence and presents wellsprings of hope in the future of our nation.
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