Mat Collishaw Livres

Exhbition book featuring artwork by Mat Collishaw displayed at Kew.

This is the most comprehensive publication on Mat Collishaw's career to date. It features an essay by Sue Hubbard, an interview by Rachel Campbell-Johnston and over 250 colour images spanning more than two decades of work. The artist is a key figure in the important generation of British artists (YBAs) who emerged from Goldsmith's College in the late 1980s. Collishaw's art envelops us in a twilight world poised between the alluring and the revolting, the familiar and the shocking, the poetic and the morbid. With a visual language embracing diverse media, the beauty of Collishaw's work draws us in - seductive, captivating, hypnotic - only to more forcefully repel us as we perceive the darker fantasies within. A repulsion triggered not by what we see, but by our innate response to it. Pornography, the crucifixion, gleaming fairies, syphilitic child prostitutes, bestiality, bondage, addiction, religion, exaltation and despair, even the final hours of a death-row inmate. There is seemingly no taboo left unbroken, no dark corner Collishaw is unwilling to explore - and yet, the work is utterly romantic, exquisitely beautiful, an expression of Collishaw's wish to 'create images that are awe-inspiring'. This book has been published on the occasion of the artist's first ever exhibition of paintings, THIS IS NOT AN EXIT at BlainSouthern, London (14 February - 30 March 2013).

Doprovodná publikace ke stejnojmenné výstavě konané v Galerii Rudolfinum ve dnech 11.4.-8.7.2018.Standing Water byla výstava britského umělce Mata Collishawa, která se uskutečnila v roce 2018 v Galerii Rudolfinum. K této příležitosti byl vydán katalog obsahující text kurátora Petra Nedomy, rozhovor Otto M. Urbana s Collishawem a reprodukce přímo z výstavy.