Exhibition
IDEAL: New Artworks by Matthew Kolakowski
24 Oct 2019 – 27 Oct 2019
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 18:00 – 21:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Address
- Valentia Place
- Brixton
- London
England - SW9 8PJ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 35, 45, 345, P4
- Brixton Victoria Line underground
- Brixton overground
Exhibition of new artworks by Matthew Kolakowski
About
Using found images and materials Matthew Kolakowski creates picture spaces that combine these multiple references into constructed narratives.
Ideal - refers to the notion of something we pursue as individuals, presented to us as a manifestation of a requirement or desire and the Platonic concept referring to the limitations of the physical world.
Recycled cardboard, ink wash, postcards, furniture catalogues, wallpaper and sticky-back vinyl are used to provide references that fabricate the scenarios and embellish their resonance. The interiors have a nostalgic poignancy, inhabited by ghostly reanimated players. An image from a war zone is one of both catastrophe and hope. The sterility of idealised interiors suggest a vacuity equivalent to absence or loss. Scale, material and surface, shift and combine across different layers to evoke the parallels of an interdependent world.