"Time for lunch. Waiting na kami," the SMS from Gilda Cordero Fernando went. The summons came while I was in a cab with a driver-road warrior who knew how to navigate the mean streets of Metro Manila to get me to Panay Avenue on time.
In time to find the hostess and her other guest, art organizer Trickie C. Lopa, enjoying a meal of fresh fruit salad, soup steeped in slices of chicken galantina, clam spaghetti, fish croquettes. They were midway, and I caught up in good time while GCF and I mapped out our art hop itinerary. The OC in her likes to write things down to make sure she doesn't forget. I take photos for the same reason.
We traveled in an old van that could fit Gilda's "stroller" from Quezon City to Makati. All for art! No wonder artists old, middle aged, young and still studying alike, love you, Gilda.
The most unique gate along the stretch of Panay Avenue features these images, not aliens, insects actually, painted by Dexter Fernandez.
The back of the gate that faces the inside of the compound
The Leandro Locsin-designed Cordero-Fernando art house with a lush garden planted and tended by Gilda's late husband Marcelo
Trickie and Gilda look at an image of the latest Gabby Barredo sculpture in the former's phone.
First stop: Four simultaneous solo shows at West Gallery. Aiko, Gilda's sidekick, and Gilda prepare the latter's "stroller"-cum-wheelchair
"Nestled in Love," oil on buffalo horn and skull by Henry Royales
Viewing Alwin Reamillo's "Mise en (matched) scene"
Details from one of Reamillo's Chinese scroll paintings. Could those be Bonifacio and Aguinaldo?
Reading a wall essay about Louie Cordero's art at Finale Art File
Studying Cordero's "Pattern for life's never-ending search for utopia"
"Ba't maganda ito? Cordero ito!" She holds up one half of a bookend (designed in the shape of a lamb or cordero) while waiting for another art show, Leeroy New's, to open in Greenbelt 5.
New's installation "Garden of Earthly Delights" at posh Greenbelt 5, an Altro Mondo-organized affair
Dr. Joven Cuanang, another passionate lover of art, tells us to hold each other for this photo with Gilda and art's darling Leeroy New.
Photos, except for the last, by Babeth Lolarga
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