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                    [ArticleID] => 1790673
                    [Title] => The Lone Torchbearer
                    [Summary] => 

The title “artist” is too easily thrown around these days.

[DatePublished] => 2018-02-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 1 [AuthorID] => 1436319 [AuthorName] => Kara Ortiga [SectionName] => Supreme [SectionUrl] => supreme [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/articles/sup1_2018-02-23_20-36-298_thumbnail.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 962739 [Title] => Junyee receives distinguished Alumnus award [Summary] =>

Renowned visual and installation artist Junyee recently received the University of the Philippines 2013 Distinguished Alumnus Award for Culture and Arts.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/9167/8bph.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 825119 [Title] => Junyee: Dealing with dark matter [Summary] =>

The local art scene has been thriving of late.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1358959 [AuthorName] => Impy Pilapil [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img809/6478/lif1thumbu.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 823368 [Title] => On lightlessness and being: The art of Junyee [Summary] =>

In the 1970s, while studying at the University of the Philippines, Junyee set fire to everything that he owned, save for three pairs of pants, in an act that consummated a slow but progressive, much-desired purgation.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1364970 [AuthorName] => Irwin Cruz [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 815715 [Title] => Solitude and sharing [Summary] =>

The older I get, the less I’m inclined to leave the house, unless it’s for some exotic destination like Paris, Penang, and my poker club.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 396039 [Title] => The Artists Junyee: Mother Nature’s Son [Summary] => It promises to be another benchmark in the life and times of the artist Junyee, the unveiling this Earth Day morning of his exhibit "Angud, a forest once" on CCP grounds. Junyee, or Luis Yee Jr., describes the installation piece—which gathers thousands of angud or the dispensable piece of a cut log where a hole had been drilled for hauling—as a "graveyard" or mute witness to years of illegal logging, thus representing the evidence of our abuse of nature.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 369467 [Title] => Junyee, a cultural treasure [Summary] => I believe that sustained excellence in one’s work, to be an influence to other artists and to make a contribution to the art development of a nation, should be more important than popularity. –Junyee, 2006
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1358959 [AuthorName] => Impy Pilapil [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) ) )
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