Search Mindscape Foundation

29/11/2025

TYPE FAIR PHILIPPINES 2025 brings together those who share a passion for type, calligraphy, lettering, and its community. 🎨✍️ Now on its third year, we’re coming back as an UPPERCASE event! Join us for a full day of creative talks, workshops, a type exhibit, type library, type merchants, film screening, type trade, and a type walk.

See you today, November 29, 2025 (Sat) at Comuna, Makati City. ✨

22/10/2025

Our founder and project director, , will host an exclusive private tour in this year’s 𝐅𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐇 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐕𝐈: 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐂𝐋𝐄 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐘. See the festival through her lens, and discover what stands out to her.

OCTOBER 25, 2025
4-5PM, 28/F RCBC PLAZA TOWER 2
MAKATI CITY

Book your slot via fifthwall.helixpay.ph
*Each tour will last approximately 1 hour. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before your scheduled tour.

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Join us for two days of movement, structure, and play; where architecture and dance meet in rhythm, form, and flow. Festival runs from October 25-26. See .ph for program details.

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𝐅𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐇 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐕𝐈 is supported by . Special thanks to .impresario, , , , and media partners and .inq.

22/10/2025

Search Mindscape Foundation is excited to continue supporting Fifth Wall—six editions strong! Join us this weekend, Oct 25–26 at the 28/F of RCBC Plaza. Tickets are out now. Details: .ph

03/05/2025

Last but not the least! Team 8 represents the next wave of Philippine painting—two emerging voices shaping contemporary figuration with clarity, conviction, and international presence.

TEAM 8: RACHEL DUEÑAS x BEA BATUNGBACAL

🎨 Rachel Dueñas is a gestural impressionist and ambidextrous painter whose tropical-toned works debuted across the Philippines in 2023 and were exhibited at the Louvre in 2024—blending raw emotion, color theory, and spiritual reflection.

🎨 Bea Batungbacal is a figurative painter whose layered compositions explore movement and stillness—her works have exhibited in Madrid, Manila, and Seoul, capturing the complexity of everyday life with quiet tension.

🌀 Battle of the Brush is brought to you by Search Mindscape Foundation and supported by Art Caravan

🎟 Tickets available

03/05/2025

Team 7 channels abstraction as instinct and as architecture—a duo fluent in scale, movement, and mythic abstraction.

TEAM 7: ALFONSO RECTO x JOJOY ZABALA

🎨 Alfonso Recto is a Filipino abstractionist whose spontaneous, expressive works fuse cubism and abstract expressionism. Inspired by spirituality, music, and life’s impulses—he produces raw, instinctive compositions rooted in movement and play.

🎨 Jojoy Zabala is a multi-awarded painter and international exhibitor—grand prize winner in Bahrain and Korea—whose large-scale abstractions collapse landscape, mythology, and emotion into pure visual force.

🌀 Battle of the Brush is brought to you by Search Mindscape Foundation and supported by Art Caravan

🎟 Tickets available at: www.malasimbo.com

03/05/2025

Team 6 bridges institutional legacy and conceptual rigor—united by their radical engagements with print and the politics of form.

TEAM 6: VIRGILIO AVIADO x VALEN VALERO

🎨 Virgilio Aviado is a towering figure in Philippine art—CCP Thirteen Artists Awardee, former Visual Arts Director at the CCP and President of the Art Association of the Philippine, he is foundational force in institutionalizing printmaking as a national art form.

🎨 Valen Valero is one of the country’s leading abstractionists—GSIS First Prize winner whose conceptual works fuse text, relics, and industrial remnants to interrogate history, energy, and spatial power.

🌀 Battle of the Brush is brought to you by Search Mindscape Foundation and supported by Art Caravan

🎟 Tickets available at: www.malasimbo.com

03/05/2025

Team 5 is ritual and resistance personified—a transnational duo whose work speaks in symbols, gestures, and community-rooted visual codes.

TEAM 5: SOWL x SIM TOLENTINO

🎨 Sowl is a Filipino-Canadian visual artist based in Toronto, known for his ritualistic portraiture and symbolic compositions that explore ancestry, diasporic identity, and the unseen.

🎨 Sim Tolentino is a muralist, painter, and tattoo artist whose socio-realist works—spanning walls from Luzon to Mindanao—chronicle everyday struggle through bold, unfiltered imagery.

🌀 Battle of the Brush is brought to you by Search Mindscape Foundation and supported by Art Caravan

🎟 Tickets available at: www.malasimbo.com

03/05/2025

Team 4 merges hypermedia and classical painting—exploring the intersection of the analog and the mythical in contemporary Filipino imagination.

TEAM 4: MIC RAHMAN x KU ROMILLO

🎨 Mic Rahman is a boundary-breaking hypermedia artist whose work spans animation, music, design, and digital media, embodying a free-spirited approach that blurs the lines between the physical and digital worlds.

🎨 Ku Romillo is a painter rooted in classical oil techniques and magic realism, whose quietly arresting works explore folklore, symbolism, and the surreal across both gallery and academic settings.

🌀 Battle of the Brush is brought to you by Search Mindscape Foundation and supported by Art Caravan

03/05/2025

Team 3 brings together a trailblazing multidisciplinary artist and a titan of realist portraiture, united in their ability to move across disciplines with elegance and authority.

TEAM 3: HELENA ALEGRE x GIG DE PIO, SR.

🎨 Helena Alegre is a Filipina artist whose work spans dance, design, and abstraction—from her roots as a Bayanihan performer to her acclaimed sculptural jewelry and bold foray into painting atmospheric, non-traditional seascapes.

🎨 Gig De Pio, Sr. is a pillar of Philippine realism—former UP Fine Arts professor and Araw ng Maynila awardee—whose signature “ethereal” portraiture and decades of teaching have shaped generations of Filipino artists.

🌀 Battle of the Brush is brought to you by Search Mindscape Foundation and supported by Art Caravan

🎟 Tickets available at: www.malasimbo.com

03/05/2025

Team 2 pairs two painters whose formal discipline and pop-edged abstraction bring structure and symbolism into sharp, emotional focus.

TEAM 2: RUM CORVERA x JAY FRANCISCO

🎨 Rum Corvera is a Latin honors graduate from Far Eastern University, major in Advertising Arts—his multidisciplinary practice draws from Middle Eastern roots and early minimalism, evolving into a precise, symbol-rich visual language.

🎨 Jay Francisco earned his Fine Arts degree in Painting from the University of the East Caloocan—his work fuses Japanese pop and Cubism into emotionally resonant, superflat acrylics that fracture and reconstruct space.

🌀 Battle of the Brush is brought to you by Search Mindscape Foundation and supported by Art Caravan

🎟 Tickets available at: www.malasimbo.com

02/05/2025

Presenting our first team on the second installment of Battle of the Brush! At Malasimbo Music and Arts Festival— May 4, 2025 at Puerto Real Gardens, Intramuros.

TEAM 1: ABE OROBIA x JUDEO HERRERA

Team 1 brings together a cultural advocate and an intuitive visual storyteller—each drawing from deep roots in education and national identity.

🎨 Abe Orobia is an educator, curator, and cultural advocate—recipient of The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) award for Arts and Education—whose socially engaged practice spans national exhibitions, heritage projects, and community murals.

🎨 Judeo Herrera is a multidisciplinary artist whose works blend realism and abstraction to reflect nostalgia for the Philippines’ past glory with subconscious fluidity.

🌀 Battle of the Brush is brought to you by Search Mindscape Foundation and supported by Art Caravan

🎟 Tickets available at: www.malasimbo.com

21/12/2024