Alliance Francaise de Manille’s Total Gallery is pleased to present New Works, a solo exhibition of painter and mixed-media artist Gerardo Tan on April 5 to 28, 2011.

In Tan’s recent works, he continues his exploration on issues of representation through collages and collage-based paintings wherein disparate images appropriated from exhibit invitations and art magazines are combined to create a complex matrix of collisions between the abstract and the familiar, painted and printed matter, geometric and organic forms, the real and the artificial. By using pre-existing images, usually those depicting other artists’ works, Tan redirects meaning into his work and internalizes the disjunction of images while probing concepts of originality and personal style. Given his conceptual background, he treats the surface of his paintings as an arena where meanings and styles are simultaneously made, subverted and consumed.

Gerardo Tan has participated in various local and international exhibitions. He has had 34 solo exhibitions to date. He was a 13 Artists Awardee in 1988 and a Fulbright Fellow in Painting at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1990-1992. His most recent group exhibitions include Blind Field: Photography and Place at Silverlens Gallery, Manila, Inversion of the Ideal at the Zimmerman Kratochwill Gallery in Graz, Austria, and Bastards of Misrepresentation: Doing Time on Filipino Time at the Freies Museum Berlin in 2010.

New Works opens on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at the Total Gallery of the Alliance Française de Manille.  The exhibit runs until April 28, 2011. 

Alliance Française de Manille is located at 209 Nicanor Garcia St. formerly Reposo St.) Bel-Air 2, Makati City.
Gallery days and hours:
Monday to Thursday, 9am to 6pm; Friday and Saturday, 9am to 5pm;  and closed on Sundays and Holidays.