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Life and Art of Francisco V. Coching + Botong Book Launch (Updated)

Filed Under Filipino Artists, Philippine Comics | 24 Comments

Reminder! The double launching of Francisco V. Coching and Botong Francsico books happens TODAY, December 11, 6:30pm at National Museum in Manila.

Anyone going? Let me know! I’m still not sure if I can go as I’m still feeling under the weather. I’ll see! This weekend will be a pretty busy one and I want to conserve my energy.

Botong and Coching Bool Launching/Exhibit
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This landmark exhibition traces the discourse between the high art of painting and the low media of komiks and graphic design in the works of Botong Francisco and Francisco Coching. It offers an intelligent account of the complex and often ambivalent relationship between art and popular culture, which signaled the emergence of Philippine modernity.

From the hectic postwar years to the advent of Martial Law, Botong Francisco and Francisco Coching articulated the visual sensibility of their era. Botong transformed sly notebook caricatures and design sketches into sprawling murals. Coching delved into abstruse historical sources and the widely circulated Tagalog novels of his time to create stirring narratives of Filipino heroism and nationhood in his komiks. Together they forged an iconography of the folk and the popular, the mass and the national, in kindred registers.

Telling Modern Time: The Life and Art of Botong Francisco Coching, on view at the National Museum of the Filipino People from 11 December 2009 to 11 January 2010 and curated by Patrick D. Flores, will feature approximately 100 works by Botong and Coching, spanning a fascinating range of material, including komiks excerpts, murals, prints, sketches, and memorabilia.

The exhibition is accompanied by a limited-edition numbered box set, available only at the opening night. The box set includes the exhibit catalogue of Telling Modern Time as well as the hardbound editions of the books The Life and Art of Botong Francisco and The Life and Art of Francisco Coching, both edited by Patrick D. Flores.

The opening night will be on December 11, 2009, at 6:30 PM. The venue will be at the South Wing Gallery, 5th Floor, National Museum of the Filipino People. Manila.

Comments

24 Responses to “Life and Art of Francisco V. Coching + Botong Book Launch (Updated)”

  1. Azrael on November 27th, 2009 9:20 am

    i have the book na! grabe..ang galeng nyo gerry..
    i love it!! super

    yeah..punta din ako sa launching

    i heard sa national museum daw. wohhohh
    kita kits

  2. Nerp on November 27th, 2009 2:13 pm

    ang sagwa naman ng locations nung text na edited by…

    yun lang :-)

  3. Gerry Alanguilan on November 27th, 2009 2:25 pm

    Ner, sa tingin ko nilipat nila yan dun sa finished book. Well, hopefully.

  4. jerome dizon on November 27th, 2009 3:31 pm

    WOw, same publisher nung El Indio?? Got my KOMIKON goodies na Gerry! Napadala na ng mother in law ko..
    Kudos sa quality ng printing ng Where bold stars.. Yung El Indio grabe.. ang ganda , pang international ang pagka bound.. loved the matte celloglazing ng cover :)

  5. Carver on November 27th, 2009 4:50 pm

    Huhuhuhu… Gusto ko ng kopya. Sino ang publisher nito?

  6. Gerry Alanguilan on November 27th, 2009 6:05 pm

    Carlo, Vibal din ang publisher ng Coching book. :D

  7. Tin on November 27th, 2009 7:06 pm

    Gerry, on behalf of Vibal Foundation, maraming salamat ulit sa lahat ng suporta.

    BTW, just as an FYI, people can purchase individual copies of The Life and Art of Botong Francisco and The Life and Art of Francisco Coching at the book launch. The limited box set packages the two books together along with the official exhibit catalogue.

    Everyone is welcome to attend. We also prepared a short film on Botong and Coching, which will premiere at the book launch and exhibit opening.

  8. Aaron on November 27th, 2009 8:16 pm

    Uy! Wow! Sana makapunta ako! Re-post ko to Sir Gerry! :D

  9. jerome dizon on November 29th, 2009 4:52 am

    Gerry

    tanong ko lang.. meron ba ang VIbal na book about Jose Rizal??

    I saw one on ebay, and on the the description ang sabi ay di pa daw ito out sa bookstore.

  10. Gerry Alanguilan on November 29th, 2009 8:04 am

    Yes, I believe Vibal has a pretty good book on Rizal. The title is “Lolo José: An Intimate and Illustrated Portrait of José Rizal”

  11. Ariel on November 29th, 2009 3:04 pm

    gerry, may idea ka ba kung magkano yung box set? :D

  12. Gerry Alanguilan on November 29th, 2009 8:17 pm

    Hello Ariel! Nako, no idea…

  13. auggie on November 30th, 2009 10:26 pm

    Tin,

    Mi VIBAL PUBLICATIONS na ba sa SM National Bookstore Naga City? please advice.Kung wala pa, kailan magiging available?

    Ano ano pa ang mga nasa pipeline na graphic novels ng Vibal Press?

  14. Tin on December 1st, 2009 11:38 am

    @Jerome Dizon – You can purchase copies of the second edition of “Lolo Jose” in National Bookstore and Powerbooks. Meron din sa Fully Booked (Rockwell and High Street).

    @Ariel – The box set will sell at P4000 at the launch.

    @Auggie – El Indio will be available in NBS SM Naga by next week (according to our sales department). We’re still exploring other graphic novel projects. Will let you know once may definite na.

  15. Louie V on December 8th, 2009 5:54 pm

    Sir Gerry, doon lang ba available yung book ni Francisco Coching sa nasabing event?

  16. Gerry Alanguilan on December 8th, 2009 7:48 pm

    Louie, since the book is fresh out of the press, it will initially be available only at the launching. Because of red tape, it will take a month or so before it appears at bookstores. Already EL INDIO is starting to appear in branches of National Bookstore and Powerbooks, a couple of months after the book launched.

  17. Rommel Joson on December 10th, 2009 9:49 am

    Wow! I hope the books become available at bookstores soon. I bought El Indio and it was wonderful. I hope Vibal publishes more comics from this era. :)

  18. Gerry Alanguilan on December 10th, 2009 11:05 am

    Rommel, I went around bookstores last Monday, and I found that EL INDIO was readily available in all National branches I went to, including “Booksellers” in Robinson’s Galleria, which I suppose is owned by National as well. It’s usually located in the Philippine Publications section, and they’re usually arranged by author alphabetically.

  19. chardinet on December 11th, 2009 3:25 pm

    Hi Gerry,

    thanks for posting the information about the launch. Price of the book is already outthis pm. check this out from vibal site:

    http://www.vibalpublishing.com/news.php?m=nv&nid=44

  20. auggie on December 11th, 2009 5:11 pm

    Gerry,

    Wala pa rito sa NBS sa SM Naga City, bakit kaya? kinukulit ko na nga yung sa acquisitions/ New arrivals, wala pa daw talaga eh…pakifollow-up naman diyan, thanks!

  21. Allan Sioson on December 12th, 2009 5:39 pm

    Gerry,

    I was looking for a copy of El Indio at NBS, Paseo de Sta Rosa — instead I found a copy of Conching’s Lapu-Lapu (complete series) published by Atlas. This comic book costs P120. (I finally got a copy of El Indio yesterday at Powerbooks, SM Megamall, though).

    I’m happy with my copy of Lapu-lapu. However, I wish that it was published in the same way as El Indio.

  22. Gerry Alanguilan on December 12th, 2009 11:19 pm

    Thanks for letting me know Allan! This is weird! I was at four branches of NBS today and I haven’t seen a copy.

  23. macoy on December 13th, 2009 8:26 am

    @allan,

    how was the lapu-lapu book?

  24. Allan Sioson on December 13th, 2009 10:17 am

    Gerry and Macoy,

    Size: 6″ x 9″; Bond paper (not the glossy type that I prefer); Black and white comics; Cover needs improvement. The illustrations are marvelous! The Arturo character in Lapu-lapu looks like Fernando in El Indio.

    The back cover says that copyright belongs to Atlas Publishing Co., Inc., (#6 21st Ave. Cubao, QC, tel # 9129652 – 60). The Editor is Terry C. Bagalso; Assoc Editor: Jocelyn J. Domingo. Fidel Pestan~o, Jayson Vega, and Divine Grace Bongolan were the ones who collected and prepared the comics.

    Gerry, among the NBS and Powerbook stores I went to — only NBS Sta Rosa has this Lapu-lapu comic book.

    The back cover shows 5 cover pictures of stories that I think Atlas would like to republish (Seems that Barbaro is one of those stories).