PELAGGIA The Art Gallery

PELAGGIA The Art Gallery
Taal Lake Tagaytay City

Pelaggia ArtWorkshop 2007

Pelaggia ArtWorkshop 2007
Alice, Taj, Christo,Carmela,Gus, Gig,Janet, Marc,Elidel,Anton,Tinggaye

Having a break with Bea, Ala and Egay Fernandez family

EVENT - August 2007

EVENT - August 2007
An intimate gathering of Artists and Friends

Reuben Canete, Cid Reyes w/ wife, TAJ Tajanlangit, Carmela Azurin, Dante Perez and Eghai Roxas

Artists and Friends of Galleria Pelaggia

Artists  and  Friends of         Galleria Pelaggia







Carmela, Taj, dante and Eghai

Karina's Bday dinner- Nov 12. Great food, great crowd. Thanks Mader! My friends enjoyed the dinner!

Happy Birthday Karina! Nextime, bring a better camera!

Nico's Bday Dinner

Happy Birthday Nico! hopefully, your girlfriend can join nextime. Ciao to you Hans! You will miss the party in Tagaytay...we hope to see you soon?! I didn't know that you can dance so well when you are tipzy! Or was I the one tipzzzy?!

Event 2008

Event 2008

Featured Artworks

Featured Artworks
Tiny Nuyda, Cid Reyes, Eghai Roxas,Henry Cainglet,Red Mansueto

Arts in Manila - List of Events/Art Exhibitions

Absolutely in Black and White at Makati Sports Club with 35 different artists joining the sketching session

RAUL PIEDRA died of heart attck last April 2009

Aug 17,2008 "Images of the Past"
a theme about Philippine culture at Galleria Pelaggia
The biggest art event of the gallery featuring artworks by:

Guest Of Honor: B. ABUEVA

Pandy Aviado
Eileen Escueta
Nune Alvarado

Henry Cainglet
Armida Francisco
Gig de Pio
Al Perez
Dante Perez
Rico Lascano
Red Mansuetto
Cid Reyes
Eghai Roxas

Popo San Pascual

Jun Tanjiang


Dont miss this event, maybe the last of the gallery....

Allan Cosio At Alliance France Makati on Aug 13, 2008

CID REYES solo exhibition at 4th flr. Megamall will run till Sept. 2008

CID REYES will launch book about National artist J.E. Navarro on June 5, 2008 at 6pm Ayala Museum

MENTORING Classes at PELAGGIA
Open for registration Now! mailtotaj@yahoo.com/info@pelaggia.com
Mentors: Bernard Temporosa, Gig de Pio and Pandy Aviado
June 7-9 2008 & June 21-23 2008
BASIC ART CLASS for ages 18 and above

June 21-23 2008 & June 28-30 2008
ADVANCE ART CLASS ages 26 and above
List of Materials will be sent through email or pls send us your contact numbers to info@pelaggia.com

May 31, 2008
"RELATED IMAGES" BY BENCAB, The National artist
at Silverlens .....DONT MISS IT! Fullhouse, full of big names in the art industry!

LUNCH Meeting day for artists: July 28, 2008 (Monday)
confirmation of attendance c/o TAJ or Carmela Azurin
P500/person
Topics: Regular Meeting and Exhibition for Artists in Makati
Venue for Exhibition without fees

RAUL PIEDRA at Astra May 30, 2008! See you guys there!

NUNE ALVARADO AND CACNIO at G5 Brumanns
Remarkable works Nune! See you in Tagaytay!

"MANO MANO"
by LASCANO, IBAY, CID REYES, PETE JIMENEZ AND ED WILWAYCO
May 28, 2008 at Estephanie
(hey guys, I will definitely see you soon!)

Congratulations to Eghai
Roxas, Red Mansueto and other artists who exhibit their new works at Big and Small Gallery. The show will run untill June 22, 2008

PICNIC and PORTRAITS will be rescheduled!

PICNIC and PORTRAITS at Splendido Tagaytay!
Tentative Date is May 17, 2008
Open to women who wish to join the group of Mara Pardo de Tavera. Pls email her...

RAUL ISIDRO 40 years RETROSPECTIVE at the CCP
Congrats! It was indeed a pleasure to be there and be surrounded by so many senior artists in the industry!
The show will run till June 8, 2008. Dont Miss it!

CONGRATULATIONS to Allan Cosio, Gig de Pio, Mon Diaz, Joey Ibay, Caballero for the successful opening of "BABAE" which will run until May2 at Rico Renzo Art Gallery!!!
Cheers to you guys! I was so impressed and glad that I came to the opening!
I hope you have time to join us in sketching at Pelaggia soon!

To those who are interested to join the "mentoring" class of Pelaggia for BASIC and ADVANCE, please check our schedule at the buttom of this blog.
WE NOW ACCEPT APPLICANTS!
For details, pls send us email: taj@pelaggia.com

Joey Ibay-Mach12

40th Anniversary of
University of the East- March6

Al Perez-March5

LASCANO-February 8
GLEN Barias-February9
Pelaggia- Feb.9 "Open House Day"
Asian Int'l Artists-February 11

February 12:
Gus Albor
Lydia Velasco
Phil dela Cruz
Eghai Roxas

February 15:
Priscilla Teodoro-Hernan
Sam Penaso

Popo San Pascual-February 21

Raul Isidro-February 28

BULACAN Artists-March4

Lets continue supporting the Art industry of the Phils.! Congratulations!

On February 9, Galleria Pelaggia will have an "Open House Day" and a bday celebration for MALU. The gallery will be open to anyone who wish to see/purchase ARTWORKS of different artists (sketches are on SALE!) and interested to joint-venture with gallery. We are looking for individuals, interested to open the coffee shop/restaurant on the ground level to cater to the students and guests of the gallery. Pls send us email for more details.

Cocktails will start at 3pm and Dinner at 7pm. See you there!

To De La Salle University, Malate Literary Folio Photo Art Camp 2008 held at Pelaggia, I will try my best to join nextime! Please try to send me pics for posting...I look forward to seeing some of you as successful photographers/artist of the country!
Cheers!

I am happy to hear that our dear friend/artist Ramon Diaz is now better. Thanks for the text Mon! Yes, its Salsa night for you after such treatments again...Take care and we miss you at opening cocktails! You better make up!

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Unconditionalism


CES...was humiliated as "dumb" but downright intelligent... having fun time, waiting for the photo to be shot as quickly, because we had some other things going towards the day... the couch she was sitting on, the floor set, the beer, were extremely resonance of familiarity....need i say more? :)


We are bold, beautiful, and rich with blessedness... just sitting, whiling away, having good food and keeping our hearts light. We are abhoringly disconnected with Narcissistic pigs, so beware Narcissus! You can fall in love with your image for as long as you want, as forever tells you to have the biggest ego and have the smallest of everthing! Ces and I are glad that we have each other because there are no inhibitions, no controlled spasmodic inherence, just simple unconditional friendship that is sure to last a lifetime. We only have a handful of friends but its a guarantee they will be there on our last day on earth.
We both love those who are deserving and those who love us back tenfold. Thank God, we both don't need to pour gas on the fire!


And so, we pose to some "seemingly" familiar shot... Hey Ces, you should be sitting the outer side, right? So why the hell are you posed there??? This will destroy what this photo is all about! Nice painting, huh? HHHMMMM....did we not just see the exact angle of shot a while back??? Are we in Terry's or Gourmet's? Hi Bem! You should see this! So nice to be giggling and at the same time, trickling with bloody sweat to get this poses over and done with! You know Ces, I suggest we try another brand of wine... the one recommended to us earlier, you know, the kind that "they" would take was cheap and tasteless! I swear! By the way, your arm by my shoulder is non identical to where it should be! Do better next time!



Artists Bernard Temporosa and Carmela Azurin at G5 Damaso



"It pays to be different"... good or bad, i don't care, so take it from there!


Maritess and Andreas Katzer with Annette and Miriam


Bday Girl TASHA KATZER with Mom and Dad
at the TOP of The City

Wine Connoisseurs Jose Ramon and Miguel of Spain. Often, the nicest, sweetest person you just got accquainted with is the right person you know you can hold closest to your heart. A non hypocritical being that is God sent... A person who knows how to put his feet on the ground, flat, hammered and stable... A true person in every sense of the word.


with Jeane and Jose Ramon

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Remembering...BORA BORACAY

I have been spending time lately with my best friend and we get to talk about a lot of things, mostly personal and confidential. We basically meet for lunch/brunch, snack or dinnertime...like girls normally do. We share our deepest thoughts for the day by calling each other and talking for hours on the phone. We do this to pour out our angst and simple happy thoughts. This makes our daily life feeling better and light-hearted. Not all people on this planet is blessed with real/good friends. Someone you can trust and rely on in times of trouble. I thank God, I have two. I have two real dear friends. How we all wish to have more! However, more cannot be compared to each one. You can only count the quality of friendship and the depth you have for each other. The lenght matters too coz you can only discover each other through the 'test of time'.

We all have our own stories in life, we all have fears, failures and fascinating memoirs I call "facts of life". The fact is not all of us have a best friend to call.
I believe that every single person we meet in this life has a purpose in our lives. Why? I believe that "every soul is a gift to one's soul and every soul teaches you something magical". For the sake of argument, some people say not all souls are good for you! Yes, I agree and that is for us to realize. We must see them and through them we learn.

I think I have my dose of friendship. From the the 'two-minute HI you do when you meet someone in a resto/bar and to the tight hugging HI and HOW ARE YOU' you do when you see an old friend from kindergarten/hi-school. Some you remember, some you dont at all, some you keep like a treasure and some you throw like a trash, some means more than to you and there are some you try to forget but you cant forget. We classify them and we randomly gauge them but whatever we do, there remains a few. A few people we can count on in every way...

One chapter of my life was meeting tons of people in Boracay, where I spent (on and off) five years....Phew...what an experience! I left Manila and started a small biz in Boracay for reasons that only my closest/dearest friends in Manila knows. My marriage was falling apart and staying away from Manila was a choice I only have at that time to make. Being legally married in church, it was the hardest decision I have to make. I dont talk , I dont voluntarily talk about private matters...It was indeed unforgettable! Being a "fag hag", my gay friends loved me more. My first two years was spent sourcing different products to sell and I travelled a lot to the North w/ Eddie who helped me a lot. This, I cannot forget. My sad experience with my contractor was a "lesson learned" from the beginning. I cant believe that the island is full of impostors but MONEY was the bottomline. People go to the island hoping to make Money by fooling other people. A lot of foreigners invest their savings/hard earned money to the island and only to realize in the end that the island is not for them to live and keep for life. I came to the island to escape. I knew, I will not earn much there, I knew, I will not earn what I earned while working in Manila. However, I wanted to do it and try the island life even for a short period of time. The first two years was really enjoying and worth remembering and the 3rd was just simply suffocating. I would always travel back to Manila to meet my friends or do some real work/project. I would visit them and spend time with them. I would drive from Manila-Clarck-Subic-Baguio. I dont get tired.I simply enjoy it. Part of which is discovering that my loving husband is having an affair with a very young waitress. Somehow, I have proven to myself that I WAS NEVER WRONG at all! Too bad that I had to spend my airfare from Boracay-Manila-Clarck but good enough to see them in the room...haha....The more I enjoyed hanging around with my gay friends. They make me laugh, they treat me like a sister and no competition whatsoever. Heartaches are not easy to bare and to carry such load for years makes you a different person. I got tired, you just shut down and dont care anymore. I have a LIFE and I know how to take care of myself. I tolerated and ignored, I sealead my lips and stayed away. That was my mistake! I should have made myself known and visible!

I met more people and had more. I thought they're my friends. They liked me and I enjoyed. I was the first one to sell virgin coconut oil and the first to sell authentic hand crochet dresses which these 'friends of mine' said not real. Haha... They swarm around my store if they hear "parties on the block". They eat and drink for FREE at my expense. These are people I thought my friends who knocks and wake me up anytime, tell me all the nice words you could possibly say to a friend, you cooked/shared your meals with, who asked for pasalubongs when you are somewhere, who clings to you when you are with a good looking guy, who asked for favors to borrow your room for self-satisfaction and promise 'speak no evil, hear no evil' or 'what you see, what you hear, when you leave, leave it here'. These are friends I thought are broadminded, well versed, well travelled but actually have not experienced backpacking in their lives, have not seen places that I have seen and have not learnt about people and places in their own country neither the other side of the world. Moreso, these are people I got involved with in outreach programs, who utters the word SERVICE above self, active environmentalists whom I thought shared the same goal and social relevance in my life. I was wrong. These are mostly hypocrites who only love to socialize and be part of the crowd. Worms that crawl around me for FREEBIES, monitoring where I could be for breakfast, lunch or dinner.They like the idea that I store my wine and other beverages behind my door (wines they claim they know...hmmm...what about the grape?) They like the idea that I can host a party anytime and they can eat and drink, hoard other people to my place. They like the idea that I spend when I am in a bar, that I call for 2-3 rounds for free, calling them "ngenge" and invite them to join me for cocktails at the beachfront and have dinner at a nice resto in the island. They also like the idea that they can borrow money from me when they need and when I have, I give. They like that I can be there for them when they need me and get items from my store without paying...None of these WORMS thank me. In fact, most of them stabbed be from behind, judged me and called me names when I met a German in the island. Who are you people? Suckers of the island I call them. Have you ever asked yourselves, You Pathetic Jealous Creatures why this man likes me and why on earth he's there all the time??? Do your Research! Get some homework done, bitches of the beach! Your self-conceited arrogance are only good for people like you. Look at yourselves in the mirror and start painting! Self-portraits I would hang along C5 and South Super Hi way. Remember, real and original wives dont need to claim publicly coz WE know our Rights. WE dont need to talk or harrass other people. We carry ourselves gracefully. We only fight with our lawyers in court. Why dont you do the same my dear....dont you have any certificates to show? Maybe, a driving license will do?! Seek legal advice my dear....

Friends, I thought my friends but only to find out that they are nothing but Freeloading Suckers. Always fond of intrigues and lives of other people, envious and selfish. These infectiuos fungal creeps who like soaking under the sun with skins like drift woods stuck on the sand, only knows you when you have. They only love you for what you have. They use you to meet other people and kill you slowly when you dont agree on them. They can multiply fast by creating fascinating stories about you and flock like owls in the night, laugh together like monkeys hanging on a tree. Who are you SUCKERS? You Palengkeras who bark like chuwawas with bariotic behaviors! You are nothing but cheap sluts walking around the island like queens with manures on your crown, stinky and no manners at all! Compatible to men who are users and perennial liars! How dare you call yourselves educated when your mouth is full of worms! And how dare you claim protecting/preserving the island you sell like potatoes to every white man! To get commissions??? Every square meter that you defy to every indegenous human being in that island called Boracay?! Simply pathetic.

They love when Louie would host a gathering coz they can bring their friends too and they can eat and drink for free! Louie is the hostest w/the mostest....he's been like this, way before we moved to Boracay. He loves to cook and entertain people and people like him only to be seen with him...The island we thought "paradise" is just another street in Manila, worst than Ermita or Smokey Mountain. People accuse each other about anything/everything. They fight like in a small barrio, no grace or manners, and they stink like rotten rats in a drainage pipe. Foreigners marry Pinays for reasons that they can own a property in the island or set up a biz in the island. These foreigners are mostly illegal dealers, x-convicts, losers in their country or married, wanting to live in asia and hiding with their mistresses. They are what I call "great pretenders" having tons of " skeletons in their closets". They are best actors in all kinds of "telenovela" you could ever think of. Some of these women are lucky to have a child from their great lovers and are able to demand for support or money, money money, leaving a nice life while some are simply enjoying a well financed biz for life. Oh what a job! Beach bums they were now glorified mistresses! Have you asked your Night to guard the Castle? What makes the island click to foreigners? The beautiful white sand beach and the girls to meet. They go gaga for this which I have seen also in Angeles, Pampanga. Sooo many foreigners go there and live there because of girls girls girls. Poor littel girls who cant find any other job than working in a bar/club. Other than this, if there is a kind of disorder called ADD, it is a fact also that however highly educated you are, you become/adapt to what I call "moronic-barbaric behavior" or MBB. This kind of behaviour is considered normal in the island. Other parts of your body work but your brain shuts down! Therefore, susceptible to all kinds of diseases and/or vices.

Boracay is not only known for party animals but also for drugs. I have seen and have been exposed to this crowd from Manila who loves to go to Boracay and snort. I didn't know that credit cards have dual purpose! I pity these people, they spend and waste money for coke and shabs. Some prefer ecstacy! How many times I was offered...No is my answer.
I have been to a lot of islands and I suggest that you should travel and hop around. Boracay is a nice place to bring friends and enjoy but not the right place to live and on top it is not the right place to meet good and real people/friends. Friends you can have for a lifetime.

Private Functions and Gatherings

Private Functions and Gatherings

Nico, a bit tipzy with colleagues from the office

Alex with his wife and friend Massimo doing the pasta dishes as I try to learn from the Italians

With two Italians in the kitchen having fun while cooking plus an IL Divo background music

During the opening of EXPOSED by Roberto Riego de Dios 2011

Mixed Media 30x42

Mixed Media 42x42 (1item SOLD)

Mixed Media 24x72

Mixed Media 42x120

Mixed Media 38x48

Mixed Media 42x54

Mixed Media 42x120
ALL PAINTINGS are original works of different artists and friends of Galleria Pelaggia. Pls DO NOT COPY, reproduce or print out for covers and or publications without the permission of the artists

For birthday parties, anniversaries or any private functions, you may send us email: mailtotaj@yahoo.com
or call 0917 6404960
Special arrangements are welcome in the gallery!

Mentoring Class

Mentoring Class
Gig w/ advanced students

Taj and kids doing their collage

Carmela doing her landscape

Clara and her brother

Clara and Melanie at the workshop...they are now back in Belgium

Melanie doing her artbox



Artworkshop for kids

Finished Works:

Finished Works:
Level 1 to 4 by Carmela Azurin

Level 1 to 4 by Carmela Azurin

Level 3-4 by Carmela Azurin Congratulations to you Carmela! Welcome to the Club!