• CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO
The reopening of the J&L Marañon Art House on March 17, featured the opening reception of “Her Triumph,” an art exhibit by BACHInc. Creatives, in celebration of Women’s Month.
J&L Marañon Art House, located at the side of the Metrodome along Araneta Street, Bacolod City is owned by Jess and Ligaya Marañon, who now live abroad. The three-storey building is filled with huge sculptures of saints and angels, wall murals, as well as life-sized terracotta soldiers, and other bizarre figures like gargoyles, winged flying men, fairies and goblins. It also hosts a replica of the Pieta in the garden area, an ornate egg-shaped seat with stained glass, and more.
The show, which featured the works of local artists like Kyle Jocson, Jenevieve Abeto, Svet Sevilleno, and Princy Martir, among others, was a grand collaboration of Bacolod Arts, Cultural & Heritage, Inc., Verdera Art Gallery (Sandy Solinap) and J & L Marañon Art House.
Present at the re-opening were Raymond Alunan, acting Provincial Tourism Officer, Bacolod Councilor Wilson Gamboa Jr., chairman of the Sangguninang Panlungsod Committee on History, Artie Lacson of Bacolod’s Ace Tour Guide, Sandy Solinap, curator – president BACHInc., with Jess Ligaya Marañon, art collector and owner of J& L Marañon Art House.*
