Art
Matt Antoniak: Sasquatch
Exhibition and installation of new paintings made in the past year by Matt Antoniak.
For the past two years, Antoniak has been collecting and making work from the scraps of paper used to test materials at a local art store.
These scraps are covered in doodles and throwaway marks – which are then photographed, scanned, cropped and layered before being painted in detail.
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Instead of working towards mimicry, the forensic study given to these discarded marks opens up a flexible interpretation of the source material. Meaning in these works is left open-ended, with a slippage in translation occurring through the process and formal qualities of the work.
“Within a current society personal opinion is increasingly black and white, and self-promotion is also on the upsurge. On occasion uncomfortable with the emotional grandiosity of art-making (and painting within that), Antoniak seeks to create micro-authorships within his work, in an effort to push against the cliché of the intuitive gesture of the genius painter.”
Apr 6-21, Test Space, Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Rd, BS1 6UX, Tue-Sun 12-5pm. Preview Fri 5, 6-9pm. For more info, email testspaceopen@gmail.com or visit topfloortestspace.wordpress.com
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