In celebration of National Arts Month, SM recently showcased the life and works of some of most fascinating visual artists from Rizal at the My City, My SM, My Art book exhibits at SM City Masinag and SM City Taytay
The exhibit featured pages from the book, which is a compilation of the My City, My SM, My Art campaign highlighting the best of Philippine visual arts painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and filmmaking. During its three-year cultural journey from 2016-2019, My City, My SM, My Art featured masters, modernists, and millennials in a roadshow around the SM Supermalls as far north as the Cordilleras and as far south as General Santos.
During the exhibits, mallgoers had a rare glimpse of the book at the My Art house, which is inspired Luzon’s Bahay na Bato.
At SM City Masinag, the larger than life book pages showcased the life and works of National Artist for Painting Carlos Botong Francisco, the Poet of Angono who revived the art of mural painting and was named the most distinguished practitioner of his time.
Also highlighted was a capsule collection from Carlos Totong Francisco II, a full-time artist and the grandson of Carlos Botong Francisco, who is also the estate keeper of the Francisco Family collection and assets.
At SM City Taytay, the My Art book exhibit showcased the life and works of Maestro Jose Pitok Blanco, known for his mural size paintings depicting the joyous celebrations in Angono that captures the faces of real people in town.
My City, My SM, My Art is the latest edition in the My City, My SM series, celebrating the beauty, culture, traditions and great people in cities around the Philippines where SM has malls. This comes after My City, My SM, which highlights tourism; My City, My SM, My Cuisine, which features heirloom recipes from prominent families around the country, and My City, My SM, My Crafts, a celebration of traditional arts and modern Philippine design.
