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IT’S IN THE
GENES
Felipe with
Camila Peñuela,
Lina Botero,
Fernando
Botero, Juan
Camilo Montaña,
Sandra Montaña
and Francisco
Giraldo at
the China Art
Museum Exhibit;
(inset) Master
Fernando Botero

BOTERO IN PERSPECTIVE

The grandson of Fernando Botero is an intellectual who presents and

positions the artist’s work in a global context

hose who immersed themselves revolution. Touching not only on Botero’s art but
in the recently-concluded and on Philippine masters as well, Felipe delivered a
well-attended annual Art Fair convincing thesis on the parallelisms in global art
were not only treated to the via his two-hour lecture, “The Art of Fernando
work of a giant in the art world, Botero,” held at Manila House. Born in Bogotá,
Fernando Botero, but to a lecture about him Colombia in 1990, Felipe Botero Quintana is a
and his art courtesy of his grandson, Felipe. A philosopher from the Universidad Nacional of
writer/translator/philosopher/intellectual, the Colombia with an MA in Philosophy and the
younger Botero tackled the art of his grandfather, Arts (Warwick, UK). He works closely with his
drawing parallels with other artists and works grandfather, particularly in the production of

during the colonial era when there was an art Botero’s art exhibitions all over the world.

Tech maven Myla Villanueva takes on the helm of the Parish
Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting

Best known as the CEO behind leading tech infrastructure fi rm MDI which recently celebrated
its 30th anniversary, and hailed as Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2015 Philippine Tatler Ball,
Myla Villanueva is certainly no stranger to challenges. She now faces what may be her biggest
challenge as chair of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV).
Villanueva has been involved with the PPCRV since 2009 when she reached out to then-
chairperson Henrietta de Villa, regarding the country’s fi rst automated elections. Villanueva said of this
encounter, “I expressed that it had changed the dynamics of poll-watching, and that some poll watchers
may project conclusions of cheating onto machines touched or manipulated albeit even regularly.”
We wish her all the best as she leads the council in its mandate to conduct voter education, parallel
counting of votes, and poll watching in voting precincts next month.

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