Kalye… Kariton… Kabataan…

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Gene Lungay’s 1st solo exhibit

FOR the month of January 2004, Syano Art Link will

be featuring Boholano artist Noel H. B. Gene Lungay in
his 1st solo exhibit in Manila.

The show “Kalye… Kariton… Kabataan…” focuses on his

personal/direct experiences with “Street Children” through
impressionist paintings in oil, aquarelle and ink washes.

The exhibition opens formally on the 11th of January, 2004

and will run until the 11th of February, 2004.

A prolific artist and visual arts educator, Gene Lungay

expresses his works in a soft painterly guile, a style handed
over from four generations of artistic lineage.

“Kalye… Kariton… Kabataan…” projects a visual poetry of the

lives of children living in the streets of Manila, and the artist
has carefully chosen certain emotional and spiritual points to
detach from the stereotype mode of projecting the misery
and depression of people in poverty.

Instead, Gene focuses on the fragile joy, innocence, and the

vulnerability of his subjects, as they are back-dropped in the
lethargic mood of a city under tension and the harshness of
a disregardful society.

“Kalye… Kariton… Kabataan…” is never intended to expose

political retributions in any sense, but rather to raise human
awareness on social transformation.

Gene Lungay, an artist by birth believes in a moral

responsibility in art.
He states: “Art has somehow managed to evolve into a
higher form of medicine. Art no longer exists to expose our
pain, fears and gloom. But rather, art has transformed into a
force that heals.”

Currently, Noel “Gene” Lungay teaches free art lessons to

“Street Children” in Manila, and every summer for the last
eighteen years, conducts art workshops for deaf-mute
children in his home island-province, Bohol.

For further details, please contact Nunelucio Alvarado Syano

Art Link, Shanghai St., Better Living Subdivision, Paranaque,
Metro Manila, Tel.: +63 (2) 821-3904,

e-mail nunelucio.alvarado@eudoramail.com or contact the

artist himself at gene@genelungay.com. (PR)