Looking at people looking at themselves looking at art
For the 50th anniversary show of the Lopez Memorial Museum, Leo Abaya created an intermedia installation about museums and what happens in them.
It starts at his Paakpaak sculpture on a motorized bicycle wheel attached to a bank of video monitors
showing works of art from the Lopez collection “unravelling” into other artworks
while a camera catches visitors looking at the art and projects their images onto the other viewers
and guests can read the replies to the invitations to the opening of the Lopez Museum at its original site on Lancaster Street, Pasay, on February 13, 1960,
an altogether more gracious time, when people who received invitations bothered to write back and indicate whether they were attending or not, (And we were fascinated by Mr. Nagasaki’s letter and want to know who he is and what happened in 1942)
while sitting on the white benches from the old museum site, marked with the posteriors of the artist’s friends, who sat on black acrylic paint then imprinted the seats for posterity.
This installation and the other works will be on view at Power Plant Mall before coming to rest at the Lopez Memorial Museum in Ortigas.
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February 19th, 2010 at 17:15
this work was outstanding but the event was a riot, the amazing works and performances could have been much highlighted in a bigger-better venue.