Minerva

Matthys Gerber

Australia

In a career that includes over 50 solo exhibitions, Matthys Gerber has, as Max Delaney writes (2016), “developed a fluid and irrepressible approach to painting – across genre hierarchies and stylistic categories – with a practice that is both analytical and libidinous. Gerber’s work explores the language of images, and the material realities of painting itself, through a panoply of visual styles…”

Gerber’s career was the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, in 2015. His work is held in major public and private collections including, in Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria; Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Monash University Museum of Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art; and elsewhere: The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, The Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.