The Galería Tomás March is showing for the first time in Valencia the most recent works by Filipino artist Manuel Ocampo (Quezon, Philippines, 1965)
Since his stay in Berkeley (California), Manuel Ocampo has been exhibiting in the main cities of the United States and at the OMR gallery (Mexico City) and more recently in Europe at the Bärbel Grässlin gallery (Frankfurt), the Sprüth-Magers Proyekte (Munich) and at the Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst  (Augsburg).

Though born in the Philippines, Manuel Ocampo has been recently living in the USA, Italy and Spain. Influenced by different cultures, by Catholicism, Marxism and by the American way of life, he has experienced first hand  this cultural multiplicity  that he expresses in his paintings bringing together symbols of all of them in a grotesque pantomime. For Manuel Ocampo there are no taboos and no cultural frontiers, in such a way that he confronts  all of the most sacred  cultural icons treated with conscious irreverence.

As Manuel Ocampo himself expresses about his last works which we are now showing under the title : ³Moral Stories: Fuck the Third World!!²:

³The works were done during my stay in the Philippines and they are an attempt at exorcising any sense of cultural legitimacy within a purely potential field of unintelligible ideas facing the full frontal reality of the idea of culture itself²