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0VERDRIVE l MODE D'EMPLOI - JANUARY 2016 PARIS

Model with S.N.S. HERNING W16 Collection, and my collage work as part of the 0VERDRIVE l MODE D'EMPLOI - JANUARY 2016 PARIS collaboration. 

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The Atheist, 2015

The Atheist, 2015 one of more than a dozen works in 0VERDRIVE  MODE D'EMPLOI, Paris, January 20 - 27, 2016. This collage on wood piece is about 7 x 7 cm. 

MODE D'EMPLOI - OPENS 20 JANUARY 2016 PARIS

W16 0VERDRIVE | MODE D’EMPLOI
S. N. S. HERNING X MATTHEW ROSE
Unique Machine World Meets Fashion World Meets Art World Meets Unique Machine World Meets Fashion World

PARIS – Danish Designer and knitwear manufacturer S. N. S. Herning launches its 2016 Winter Collection and celebrates its 85th anniversary with a collaborative exhibition of fashion and the collage works of Paris-based American artist Matthew Rose during the Winter Fashion Week in Paris – 20 thru 27 January.  A vernissage for the collection and collaboration is planned for Saturday 23 January 2016.

S. N. S Herning’s Winter 2016 collection – 0VERDRIVE – includes 85 menswear and womenswear knitted pieces, a design style synonymous with the Herning, Denmark-based house since 1931.

“Our knitwear collection is logical and pure, but it speaks about the marriage of technology and values,” says designer and owner, Søren N. Skyt, grandson of the company’s founder Søren Nielsen Skyt.

The W16 0VERDRIVE collection is third installment in S. N. S. Herning’s META series of 5 seasons, explains Søren N. Skyt. “The overarching theme is human value,” he says.  “Our original origins : our heritage and storytelling – in particular our relation to technology and the imminent danger of technological development running amok, changing our concepts of value, perhaps irrevocably.”

COLLABORATION
0VERDRIVE is also a collaboration – MODE D’EMPLOI – with artist Matthew Rose, adds Søren.

“We are exploring art and fashion, ideas and machines, the way words and images drench us in a post-digital consciousness, how information in all its manifestations seeps into our beings – how we change, adapt, reinvent language,” says Søren. “In many ways the 0VERDRIVE collection is a gentle reminder and appreciation of what we have – and what we can do – that is good, with regards to our unique human abilities, like the appreciation of great art, great wine – and a well-crafted garment.”

Matthew Rose and Søren N. Skyt met only a year ago and developed a friendship over Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, art and fashion – how technology, consciousness, linguistics and making things are woven together and at times expresses our greatest strengths and some of our most intriguing constructions.

“Aesthetic expression – art making in its pure form – is one of the last unbridled domains of creation,” says Søren.  “And art making is so far mostly uncontaminated by artificial intelligence. With Matthew’s work, we have something like a private language understood by all.”

COLLAGE
Working exclusively in collage for many years, Matthew Rose created the series MODE D’EMPLOI for this collaborative exhibition.  The series gestures towards the machine with cutouts and tearouts of magazine page fragments combined into “machines” that imitate speech, and intimate function.  Serious, humorous, flat and yet indicating depth, these works – all black and white – are incarnations of a “history of the future.” In addition, Matthew Rose produced the print, Final Theory, 2015, especially for 0VERDRIVE : MODE D’EMPLOI.

“My interest here was to strip down content and reflect something out of splinters of the past,” says Rose. Using magazines from the 1920s and 1930s the artist worked instinctively wrestling shapes from printed pages, mapping out an animal, architectural instinct, building shapes into machines as it were – producing a kind of history, a meta-language of the machine.

“This series is very coherent with the kind of elegance and intelligence of Søren’s W16 design and collection,” adds Rose. “I could not have dreamed of such a gorgeous and generous collaboration.”

0VERDRIVE also includes a collaboration between Copenhagen-based photographer Alastair Philip Wiper and S. N. S. HERNING in documenting the aged knitting machines in a soft spoken, poetic, almost religious portraiture.

We hope that 0VERDRIVE : MODE D’EMPLOI will engage the public in a fresh and unusual way.

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PRACTICAL INFO:  
W16 0VERDRIVE | MODE D’EMPLOI
Vernissage: Saturday 23 January 2016  18:00 -21:00

Showroom|Exhibition : 5, rue du Grenier St Lazare, 75003 Paris
Showroom/Exhibition : 20 January - 27 January, 2016
Hours throughout : 12H00 – 20H00

DESIGNER ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHER DETAILS:
S.N.S. HERNING : sns-herning.com
MATTHEW ROSE: instagram @mistahcoughdrop
ALAISTAIR PHILIP WIPER: alastairphilipwiper.com

PRESS & IMAGES: Laila | laila@sns-herning.com
S. N. S. HERNING  l Orebygaardvej 3-5
DK-7400 Herning, Denmark  Tel: +45 4246 4544

Machine World, 2015. Farm Fresh Collage.

Series of 6 works on canvas entitled Machine World (2015).  The works are each 45 cm square.  They are fresh from the farm. See more work here on instagram: Machine World.

BATSLATIC ADVENTURES, 2015

Ideal Medical Accounting : New Works in Brittany, France

Some new works of mine are up now at JL Cleret / Artquest Galerie ... Ideal Medical Accounting/La Comptabilité Médicale Idéale (2014). The series of collage works are visual eye/mental health "tests." Made in France. Ask Jean-Louis Cléret for prices and availability. Click on the image to enlarge.

Jean-Louis CLERET - jlcleret@artquest.fr - Tel: +33 676 351 200
ARTQUEST GALERIE - 11 RUE DE L’EGLISE - 22500 PAIMPOL - FRANCE
https://www.facebook.com/JLCleretArtquestGalerie999

Paper Trumpets: The Collage Interview

Read the full Paper Trumpets Interview

PRESSURE WASHING : CONVERGE GALLERY - HIGHLIGHTS - THRU 25 APRIL 2015

Some highlights from the exhibition, Pressure Washing, on view at Converge Gallery, though 25 April, 2015.  Are you interested in the free catalog for the show?  Please contact: John Y. 

Also, you can listen to Brainard Carey, Yale University Radio, interview of me and my work.

Check out Brainard Carey: http://about.me/brainard_carey

THE LAST HOLIDAY, 2015

The Last Holiday, 2015. Collage on paper; 43.5 cm x 35.5 cm.

Tuscany, 2005

Tuscany, triptych, collage on canvas, 2005. Part of the Pop Up/Fuck Off exhibition in London 28 March 2015.  Sold to a collector in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The Brawl, 2015

 
The Brawl, 2015. Collage on paper.  26 x 21.5 cm. One of a series of 20 new works on paper.

SOFT FIX, 2015 - AMERICAN PEEP SHOW CRUCIFIX / PRESSURE WASHING : CONVERGE GALLERY

SOFT FIX, 2015 is a soft core porn assemblage work in the American Peep Show booth that is part of the Pressure Washing exhibition at Converge Gallery.  The crucifix is made from prostitutes' calling cards, and arranged in a grid to form a crucifix.

Reactions to the work thus far have ranged from horrified to mystified to gorgeous to outrageous, John Yogodzinksi, Converge Gallery director told me.  My idea here is to literally cross up the male gaze with paid liberation, and examine the contradictions of desire, belief, consumer life and private spiritual life.

For more information: Converge Gallery.

POP UP FUCK OFF MASSIVE GROUP SHOW @ BROADWAY STUDIOS LONDON SATURDAY 28 MARCH 2015

Pop Up Fuck Off, organized by India Roper-Evans and Samuel Brzeksi at Broadway Studios 28 Tooting High Street SW17 ORG in LONDON runs for one day only: 28 March 2015.

The exhibition opens at 3 PM and will run quite late with musical performances and other art works taking us into the evening.

All the details on FaceBook are here: Pop Up Fuck Off.

Artists include:

Elod Beregszaszi, Richard Leppard, Matthew Rose, India Roper-Evans
Flora Deborah, Sophia Simensky
Mita Solanky, Samuel Brzeski, Cecily Bates, Rodrigo Souto
Eden Lazaness, Helena Mae Brzeski, Miriam Gould, Mary Jones, Amelia Prett, Thomas Wells, Millie Easton, Tom Estes, Cheryl Simmons, Sarah Peace, Sarah Miah, Be Inma Berrocal, Carmen Viñuela, Ele de Luis, Simone Strifele, Sean Worrall, Kathryn Madge, Soundboxed Collective, Daniel P Cunningham, Jamie Misselbrook, Elaine Johnson Lauren Cooper Hayley Don Hill, Xiaoqiao Li, Minami Wrigley, Bob Brown, Luke Sebastian Wilde, Robert Marney Arts, Rob Jones, Phillip Hawkey, Nalini Thapen, Sisters From Another Mister, Milda Lembertaite, Emma Barford, Graham Martin, Andrew Stys, Timothy Holt, Aerial Sparks, Julia Maddison, Glenn Fitzy Fitzpatrick, Alejandro Tamagno, Sedicente Feccia, Minesweeper Collective, Desdemona Varon, Gzillion Artist, Vanya Balogh, Susana Sanroman, Silvia Cruz Del Alamo, Vanja Karas, Yumi Yoshinaga,  Sinéid Codd, Russell Hill, Caroline Derveaux-Berté and many more...

My text work, Tuscany, 2005, will be included (God willing the Postal Service delivers them)... The pieces, a triptych, are essentially Bird, Cloud, Sky (in Italian).  Each canvas is 21.0 x 29.7cm, and is gouache on canvas. If you are interested in these works, please contact here: TUSCANY.

Feel free to use the buttons for Twitter and FB and other stuff to send this around.  Thank you. 

Pressure Washing: An Indiscreet But Satisfying Rapture - Exhibition By Matthew Rose : 6 March - 25 April 2015

Matthew Rose Pressure Washing Poster Download (PDF).  

WILLIAMSPORT, PA – Converge Gallery is pleased to present Matthew Rose’s small and intimate exhibition of sometimes erotic, sometimes obscene, indecent, titillating, arousing, risqué, adult works of art rife with bawdy double-entendres and soft-core innuendo. This is the Paris-based American artist’s third solo exhibition at Converge Gallery.

These 100 hand-cut and painted collage works on board and canvas skew towards the suggestive with splashes of surrealist and pop sensibilities.  Along with additional pieces in sealed plastic arranged triple-x magazine-style in a private “American Peep Show” viewing booth, “Pressure Washing” provides a kind of lexica pornographica, a modest pictorial thesaurus of contemporary pleasure. 

Curated by Converge Gallery director, John Yogodzinski, these works target “almost every manner of sexual adventure with a sophistication and deep sense of humor that takes no prisoners,” says Yogodzinski.  “These works offer rewards that will leave viewers and collectors of art and erotica in stitches and possibly chains. Matthew Rose proves again he is one of our leading collage workers, taking the aesthetic of cut and paste, and pushing past the gates armed with fleshy poetry.” 

Kristen Hill, Converge Gallery, assistant director, agrees: “No philistine, Rose produces x-rated koan-like gems with a knowing virtuosity,” she says. “He’s a two-fisted culture warrior outfitted with sharp scissors, hot glue and a quick pair of hands to rifle through the Zeitgeist.”

Matthew’s last exhibition at Converge (2013), The Letters, comprised 333 works each mailed to the gallery.  Some pieces were missives, others fragments from various alphabets, faux books and his award-winning floor-to-ceiling lexicon the “SPECIAL K WORDS.”

A pair of Pussy Prints, "Secretary" and "Applied Sciences," (right), have also been produced for Pressure Washing.  For information, prices and availability, please contact Converge Gallery.

Matthew Rose’s collages, text works, prints, drawings and altered books and objects are widely collected both privately and publicly throughout Europe and the US. Currently Matthew Rose’s “Self Improvement Alphabet,” a 26-piece collage installation, is on view at The Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, Florida.  He also conceived and launched the global project A Book About Death. His works have been featured in Axis of Evil (Qualicatica 2004); Masters of Collage (Lark, 2009); Cutting Edges (Gestalten, 2010); and the artist is currently involved in producing two books : Weekend Plans (Burning Boy 2015) and As Is, (Burning Boy 2015) a collection of written and photographic essays about Rose’s 30 years making and exhibiting art. 

“Pressure Washing” will be on view at Converge Gallery March 6 through April 25, 2015, with an opening on Friday 6 March, beginning at 6 pm.  

For all press inquiries, photo requests and the PDF catalog/checklist of the exhibition, please contact John Yogodzinski, director, Converge Gallery : john@convergegallery.com. 

Web: convergegallery.com. Tel: 1.570.435.7080 Earth: Converge Gallery 140 West 4th Street, Williamsport, PA 17701, USA. 

Download the large format poster of the exhibition (PDF).  Print it at home, office, factory : Pressure Washing : Matthew Rose 2015

TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION.

Lost For Words: Opening 4 October, Paris at The BKLYN

Exhibition opens 4 October (Nuit Blanche) ... Download and print this high-resolution  poster (A3 and larger).  LOST FOR WORDS POSTER LINK. Bring it to the show and I'll sign it for you.  I will have about 20 signed posters at the exhibition if you'd like one.

Rubens Rounding Third, 2014, River Mill Art Gallery NJ

Rubens Rounding Third, print, edition: 11, 2014. Each printed 14 x 18 inches; Ilford Gallerie Pearl Satin paper.  Signed and dated on back (adhesive sticker).

Available exclusively: River Mill Art Gallery, 504 North Ave East, Westfield, NJ 07090.  Contact : Michael Chan, Director.   River Mill also has a small number of signed and dated Rubens Rounding Third A3-sized stamp sheets, edition 1000.  Ask Michael about them. 

Converge Gallery : Catalog of Works

Converge Gallery relaunched their site with updated artist pages. My works are presented here: Matthew Rose Converge Gallery.

Everything Touches Everything : Suicide Specials

Read the full article on Artillery: http://artillerymag.com/everything-touches-everything/

ROUGE, 1993

ROUGE, 1993.  Collage on bottles.  Exhibited over the years in Paris and Berlin and London. Photo in my studio by Cecil Touchon.  Click on the image to enlarge.