TODCO Community Art’s Spotlight: Mural Restoration
TODCO Community Art’s Spotlight: Mural Restoration of the ‘Ang Lipi ni Lapu Lapu (The Descendents of Lapu Lapu)’ Mural
August 2nd, 2024
Originally painted in 1984 by Artist Johanna Poethig, TODCO Group and SOMA Pilipinas is proud to celebrate and steward the 40-year restoration of the 90 foot, seven-story mural depicting Philippine history at the corner of Rizal and Lapu Lapu streets.
Lipi ni Lapu Lapu is a visual timeline documenting Philippine history and history of migration of Filipinos to the Americas. The mural, first installed in 1984, highlights the 300 year old Galleon Trade to the waves of migration including agricultural and fish workers, nurses, doctors and teachers.
Included in the mural are important figures in the fight for Philippine liberation such as Andres Bonifacio, Jose Rizal, Tandang Sora to more contemporary historic figures like Carlos Bulosan, Victoria Manalo Draves, Pancho Villa, and Larry Itliong.
Our mural restoration project, ‘Ang Lipi ni Lapu Lapu’ has been making tremendous progress. This initiative aims to preserve and rejuvenate the beautiful murals that adorn the South of Market Neighborhood highlighting the rich cultural heritage and Filipinx stories embedded within our urban landscape.
TODCO originally commissioned the mural in 1984, and we're delighted that we are able to sponsor the restoration project forty years later, ensuring the neighborhood remembers the history of Philippine liberation for decades to come.
Meet the Artist:
Johanna Poethig is a visual, public and performance artist who has exhibited internationally and has been actively creating public art works, murals, paintings, sculpture and multimedia installations for over 40 years. Her practice plays between realism and abstract forms, architectural and intimate scales, historic and present day politics, futurist musings, humour and satire, a feminist point of view, collaborative processes and cultural critique. Poethig’s public art works intervene in the urban landscape, on freeways, transit corridors, in parks, hospitals, schools, homeless shelters, cultural centers and civic buildings.
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