Richard Koh Fine Art (Singapore) is proud to present emerging Philippine artist, Allan Balisi (b.1982) first solo exhibition in Singapore. The exhibition, which will feature oil and graphite on gessoed canvas, will be on at our gallery from 29 Aug – 15 Sep 2012.

Balisi paints snippets of his own stories for his viewers to create their own narratives. The artist uses very thin minimal washes of oil and graphite and deliberately sets aside a master plan on how his whole collection will look like together. This method allows him to paint in fragments, without any conscious will. He manages to create a space between what he is looking at and thinking about. The viewer will experience the idea: as if he were lying in bed, trying hard to remember what something looked like. A perception of what it was, and not a precise representation of what really happened or what it really was.

This series of vanishing figures and reflections in ripple figures represent the idea that we always disappear, we are always uncertain, we are always in fear of losing something. It is about how time just passes by unnoticed. Balisi always likes to make the viewer unaware, to leave them with a scene or a moment and transport them in to a different state of affair.

Balisi graduated in 2005 from the Far Eastern University, Manila, Philippines. Since then, he has exhibited extensively in the Philippines. In 2009, Balisi was nominated for the Ateneo Art Awards. Past nominees included Rodel Tapaya, Leslie De Chavez & Bembol Dela Cruz.