SLASHSTROKE: THE INTERVIEW

Just out.  An interview with Slashstroke Magazine (UK). Included are specially produced collage works for the FAUX/ZEN issue. 

Read the interview here: http://www.slashstrokemagazine.com/issue_004/story_04.php

EDITIONS AUCTION: PHILLIPS NYC JUNE 8 2011

Exhibition/Auction at Phillips de Pury, NYC: Editions. 

Set for June 8, 2011.  Full catalog online and in print available here: MATTHEW ROSE PAINTINGS PORTFOLIO: EDITIONS PHILLIPS DE PURY.

The sale focuses on a wide range of editions on paper. Nearly 100 artists are represented in some 200 lots, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Gober, Jasper Johns, Walton Ford, Sherrie Levine, Matthew Barney, Brice Marden, Cy Twombly and Ed Rusha among others.

A print and online catalog is available directly from Phillips de Pury.

This group of silkscreens, Paintings, was exhibited first in Paris in 1999, then in Antwerp, Belgium in 2000. They are currently installed in the permanent collection of The Boca Raton Museum of Fine Art, Boca Raton, Florida.  The texts are directly derived from post card captions and serves to make concrete the potency of "word as image" as well as a range of typographic, printing and cultural concerns and notations of how we view and understand art. At the base of this group is a fascination with language and its presentation as a filter for understanding the visual.

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LOT 169

MATTHEW ROSE

Paintings portfolio, 1999

The complete set of seven screenprints, on Rives BFL Moulin d'Gou paper, with full margins, with accompanying postcard,  all I. various sizes; all S. 29 7/8 x 22 1/2 in. (75.9 x 57.2 cm)  all signed, dated "1999" and numbered "2/3 AP" in pencil on the reverse (artist's proofs, the edition was 10), published by Michel Hosszu, Paris, the palest offsetting on the reverse, still life with minor soiling at upper right, otherwise all in very good condition, all unframed.  ESTIMATE $2,000-3,000

See entry, here.

ROSY & KARTHIK BOTTLES

Made for their wedding here in Paris 23 April 2011.  Rosy is a painter, Karthik is an engineer. 

MAIL ARTISTS INDEX

Short article on my activities before and during The Paris Correspondence School on the Mail Artists Index from Lutz Wohlrab.  See: MAIL ARTISTS INDEX.

CUTTING EDGES: REVIEW EN ESPANOL

Cutting Edges Book Review in Spanish

Poco después vendría su conversación con esta increíble editorial exploradora de la cultura visual (tan apabullante), Gestalten, y la edición de un riquísimo trabajo que, tras su prefacio, desarrolla contextual izando el texto, ya más académico, el Dr. Silke Krohn. El profesor realiza un recorrido revelador sobre la historia del collage antes de darnos paso a la catalogación de un increíble trabajo de 83 artistas (de los cuales hay 5 españoles) que utilizan técnicas diversas, más o menos mixtas, convertidos en expertos diseñadores-diletantes, informáticos que presentan trabajos pulidos en la técnica a través del ordenador y artesanos minuciosos de piezas primorosas. Todos ellos auténticos visionarios discursivos y generadores de universos fascinantes y posibles dentro de la imaginación de lo imposible, de la ruptura formal, de la adición, de nuevos constructos.

De la frialdad compositiva a la fascinación gestáltica que juega con ilusiones ópticas, de texturas dispares y técnicas mixtas, desde la denuncia a la exaltación eminentemente artística y compositiva, desde la inclinación vintage al acabado límpido y neofuturista, de la abstracción al los espacios de sentido y en un eclecticismo brillante, destacamos el trabajo de Julien Pacaud. Mario Wagner, Mira Ruido (del que ya os hemos hablado en alguna ocasión y que también se pasa a la imagen en movimiento), Jelle Martens (que ilustra la portada), Corinne von Lebusa, Bill Zindel, Greg Lamarche, Mario Zoots (de Modern Witch, del que también os hablamos aquí) y que nos evoca el recuerdo de Owleyes; Donna K, Alejandro Chavetta, Vlatka Horvat, Constantinos Chaidalis, Rodrigo de Filippis, Max-o-matic, Incola Starr, Cless, Clara Mata, Jesse Draxler, Virginia Echevarría, Valerie Roybal, Free Fred, Martin Vorwek, David Wallave, el propio Gallagher, John Gall, Emmanuel Polanco, Becha, Eduardo Recife, David Plunkert, Dani Sanchís, Angelica Paez, José I. Fernández, Lilliana Pereira, Vincent Pacheco, Alejandra Villasmil, Tara Hardy, Paul Burgess, Exo, Molokid, Karrem Rizk, Michael Bartalos, Matthew Rose, Javier Rodríguez, Greg Sand, Ashkan Honarwar o Kate Hate. Un listado, como dice el propio Gallagher, que no es el definitivo, ya que nos quedamos sin algunos trabajos como los de Calla Donofrio, Jorge Chamorro (del que también os comentamos algo más de una vez) o el de Rafafans, por citar a otros tres, entre millones, de hábiles de sentidos deconstructivos. Disfrútenlos. Corten, peguen, signifiquen.  Y, ahora, Ctrl.+G.

David Cano  20.04.11

LA MAISON: Heavy Lead

LA MAISON, graphite on paper. 80 cm x 60 cm, 1997. Collection Betti Romersi, Rome, Italy.

I produced this and about a dozen other large drawings on paper using graphite in early 1997.  They were produced while during a stay at the Cité Internationale des Arts, 75004 Paris.  I was sponsored by The American Center in Paris.  What was interesting about producing these works was the repetition involved in making a space, a word or shape completely black.  I burned through a hundred No. 4 and 6 soft lead pencils.  I also began to take an interest in turning words into images, drawing them.

My stay at the Cité lasted until the following March (1998) and when I left I had left off drawing and begun producing collage and assemblage pieces on wood.

A number of these drawings still exist, the largest of which is more than 2 meters wide and a meter high and is called: ONE DAY NOTHING HAPPENED.  On that drawing, in graphite I designed the DUMB BUNNY, which has had a life in drawings, stencils, silkscreens and collage works.   

Right: Installation shot of LA MAISON in Betti Romersi's house in Rome, Italy.  (Click to enlarge). Romersi, a friend, artist and collector, sandwhiched this piece in a massive glass frame, a design out of her favorite decade, the 1970s. 

SLUT FOR LIFE & OTHER STORIES

Three new text works: SLUT FOR LIFE, BE DE STIJL & RETURN TO TENDER.

MAIL ART EXHIBITION: 12.12.12

My END OF THE WORLD piece for 12.12.12.

DUMB BUNNY: An Exchange With Sol LeWitt At MASS MOCA

An Exchange with Sol LeWitt at Mass Moca in North Adams, Massachusetts these past few months brought nearly a thousand art works together to honor the late artist.  The concept was an exchange, a conversation, a dialogue. My Dumb Bunny, a stencil print in black, was sent in to speak my piece.  And since my great friend, the artist, Russell Steinert, was passing by the museum he espied my rabbit and took this photo insitu.  See Russell's paintings here.

DUMB BUNNY prints are also being offered for the Kickstarter Project for THE TIES THAT BIND.  For a $15 DONATION to the project you'll receive a print.  The project needs $1000 to fund musicians for the opening.  See all details here: THE TIES THAT BIND.

POSTERS: FREE TO DOWNLOAD

Download any or all of these posters as high resolution PDFs, print and enjoy.  Free.

GUTEN TAG GUTENBERG: LETTER TO JOHANES

Entry for A Letter To Johannes Gutenberg, a mail art exhibition in Mainz, Germany.

http://blog.kunstzwerg.net/

JUMBO SIZED VIAGRA 2011

 

New & Improved: Jumbo-sized 6-liter bottle of Viagra (Only You), 2011.  Indeed: Six ways to have fun, on view at La Cave des Papilles, Paris.  For sale: Contact Viagra Bottle.

ROSE LAVE PLUS BLANC: 1996

Installation piece made for ROSE LAVE PLUS BLANC in Ivry/Seine, France, 1996. The white piece is a reference to Lot's Wife, the vial is a sample of the Dead Sea in Israel, the bucket is well, just a bucket.

Click the image to enlarge.

PHOTO: ARI ROSSNER/PARIS.

Star Paintings

ADVENTURES IN A BOX: NOW AVAILABLE

ADVENTURES IN A BOX has launched.  The limited edition set of 24 prints, objects, drawings and collage works by Matthew Rose and Fritz Sauter.  The image above, Invincible, is an original collage and was created to serve as the cover for the edition, ADVENTURES IN A BOX.

FROM SLASHSTROKE MAGAZINE (UK):

Bound to a desk in front of a computer screen is no doubt the formatting of new perspectives and outlooks, not always ideal but certainly explorations in varying directions. No longer confined to location what is quite heartening is the connections and networks that grow from chance encounters via the web. Work, ideas and output have a more open ideological middle ground, once its live it is in every sense out there, for interpretation, discussion, review and optimistically for growth and experimentation. Swiss artist Fritz Sauter came across the work of Matthew Rose (France) via various online media/gallery profiles, Red Fox Press, Facebook, Blogs and in particular a project by Rose,  A Book About Death.

Mutual communication and image sharing of related ideas eventually spurred a trip from Paris to Schaffhausen in January 2011 to work free style in Fritz’s letter press studio and their combined abilities morphed into “Adventures in a Box,” a collaborative book project.

The box: powerful, magical and convenient. It is where jewels are kept and loved ones buried. Solid or flimsy, the box is the willing partner to most anything: Old letters, old clothes, cash, trash, ash. Our boxes shift shape and purpose: A suitcase, a briefcase, a cigarette case. Sealed by tape or string or the gravity of its cover, like a heart, the box beats out a certain secret. A gift. A poisoned gift.
That’s the wide-eyed premise of Adventures in a Box, a collaborative spiriting down the rabbit hole by Swiss-German and letterpress Kunstler Fritz Sauter, and Paris based American dadaist Matthew Rose. Like Alice through the looking glass, Adventures – in printed works and altered objects – are voyages of the mind: Trips that scribble backwards and upside down via letterpress; here text and image amuses, perplexes, maps out and reaches out.

Beginning with dozens of 36×36 cm cardboard boxes, purchased by Fritz from a local monopac-factory and a varied collection of cast off supplies from the local Salvation Army, the initial suggested to fill the boxes was the start of the “Adventure”. In a limited edition of 24, more than two dozen individual works in collage, letterpress, drawing, rubber stamp, altered objects and even buttons found are packaged like a massive Dagwood sandwich, multi-layered with each piece a chapter in a trip through death, love, drunkenness, God, Disney, pin-ups and the meaning of political discourse in a world gone akimbo. Stealing the flame from Duchamp’s Boite en Valise, the Frenchman’s “portable exhibition” of his significant works and ready mades, Adventures, is essentially a complete and ready-made exhibition in a box.

Once in the studio, which overlooked the Rhine, it was a mad rush of cutting and pasting and pulling type from an immense collection. “Fritz would ink up the press and we’d roll right through the day.” explains Rose. “The collaboration was intensive” says Fritz, “we discussed every aspect seriously – sometimes we found a way to make the works, sometimes we didn’t. We argued about translations, design, colours, paper,  it was like a marriage! But in art, I prefer to work in ways where meaning is different for people. Agreement was not the goal, conversation was the goal and in the end, the adventure.”

A gold record featuring ‘Fritz Sauter sings Vivaldi offers the B side of ‘Mathew Rose complains about Swiss food’. Another work is a simple button exhorting you to: FRAGEN SIE IHER KUNSTLER(ASK YOUR ARTIST). Fritz also created a series of abstract drawings in crayon, and rubber stamps for each box. Meanwhile Matthew spent one afternoon composing 25 of his unique collages using American pin ups, medical illustrations and bits of magazine ads from the 1950s. Political posters in wooden type- “FUCK YOU AND YOUR POLITICS” – were paired with cold type text bitching about Western societies: “THE SWISS ARE PERFECT”

“We filled the ‘Schachtel’ (box) with almost every idea we had during the four days in Switzerland,” says Fritz. ” You can take each piece in your hands and examine it. The art is intimate, but it’s also quite a surprise. So many different ideas, but I can hear (and see) them all talking to each other. Its like a guide to some strange place!”

The limited edition work is dedicated to the French artist Jean-Paul Chagniot (1951-2011), who died just as the project was launched. Two boxes are already in the art collection of the city of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. The works are available direct from each artist. 


For more information on the edition: ADVENTURES.
 

Gestalten's Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage

Gestalten, the German art book publisher, just released Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage, edited by artist/curator James Gallagher.  I'm pleased to be included this new volume.  My work can be seen on pages 178 - 183.  There are about 300 full-color pages; hard cover.

To order: Price: €39,90 | $60,00 | £37,50.

"Cutting Edges documents the new heyday of collage in current art and visual culture. Today’s artists, illustrators, and designers are increasingly drawn to this artistic technique by the challenges of seamlessly melding traditional craftsmanship with skilled computer montage. They are not only composing a wide variety of visual elements, but are also deliberately omitting, deleting, and destroying them. This book is an inspiring collection of these unique examples of contemporary collage."

Above: Alone, 2009, collage on paper from the series, Days Like These. Cutting Edges book cover.

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn, collage on canvas. 29 x 42 cm. 2005.

A KICK IN THE KUNST: KUNST KICKERS TO SONS

My Kunst Kickers, exhibited at Rossella Junck Berlin in 2008, are now part of the SONS / Shoes Or No Shoes Collection in Belgium.  SONS Website.

DEFENSE DE NE PAS TOUT FAIRE

http://defensedafficherproject.blogspot.com/

Waiting Room Basel Train Station : Radiator

Waiting Room Basel Train Station 1:52 PM

Waiting Room Basel Train Station : Buffet

Un Libro Sulla Morte Omaggio A Ray Johnson - ABAD ITALIA Opening 9 April 2011

http://unlibrosullamorte.blogspot.com/

A Book About Death: Homage to Ray Johnson

UN LIBRO SULLA MORTE - A BOOK ABOUT DEATH

The Nuovo Archivio International  Biblioteca Artist’s Book/NABILA-FLUXUS/ Treviso, curated by Virginia Milici, presents an exhibition in homage to Ray Johnson with reference to the first ABAD exhibition by Paris-based American artist Matthew Rose.

Assembling: Adventures In A Box

Fritz Sauter is currently assembling the various elements, prints, collages, drawings and unusual objects for the boxed edition: Adventures In A Box.  We hope to have them finished and online for sale within the next two weeks.  If you are interested, please contact: ADVENTURES.

Fragen Sie Ihren Kunstler / Ask Your Artist

Fragen Sie Ihren Kunstler buttons for the limited edition Adventures In A Box, a project I produced with artist Fritz Sauter in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.  Some 15 different elements – letter press prints, gold records, unusual objects, collage works, rubber stamp prints among other works – are included in the box. Only 22 boxes will be available for purchase. Curious? Contact me.

KAUGHT LOOKING

  

KEEP CALM GALLERY








































KAUGHT LOOKING ARTICLE

Orange Dot Gallery London Opens Virtual Gallery

On view at The Orange Dot Gallery London.

Schaffhausen Nachrichten: Adventures In A Box

Click image to enlarge and read.

NICEPICTURE: LETTER PRESS PRINT

NICEPICTURE, a letter press print is one of some 15 different works for ADVENTURES IN A BOX, a collaborative edition produced with Fritz Sauter in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

The print, made from a carved cork block, was produced in an edition of 24 with an artist proof, and several printer's proofs.

Some 18 box editions will be made available.

Letter press, rubber stamp, collage, objects and other works on a variety of fine art papers comprise the edition. Text and image come together in this unusual mixture of German and English words and pictures.


The works were all conceived and produced over a period of one week in mid-January, 2011.

ADVENTURES IN A BOX project was supported by the City of Schaffhausen, Switzerland. The edition will be priced shortly.  For information: ADVENTURES IN A BOX.

If you would be interested in a separate NICEPICTURE print, please contact: NICEPICTURE.

Print Contest Radio Rasa: Schaffhausen, Switzerland

The wonderful rockers at Radio Rasa in Schaffhausen, Switzerland  – next door to Fritz Sauter's Studio – are offering three of my FUCK YOU & YOUR POLITICS letter press prints to the 11th, 22nd and 33rd e mailers to the station.  Free.

Produced by Fritz Sauter as part of our edition: Adventures in a Box, we thought the nice people at Radio Rasa might enjoy this piece about the language of politics. Tune in to this excellent alternative music station and say hello to Christian and Phillip.

An edition of FY&YP of 75 is now available.