Matt Bryans Exhibition

Jack Hanley

poster for Matt Bryans Exhibition

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Based in London and working internationally, Bryans is known for his obsessive repurposing of common materials such as newspaper, wood, mud, and foil, to create drawings, installations and large-scale collages. Through labor intensive processes such as erasure, burning, hammering and sanding, the artist transforms his matter in search of its inherent character before re-compiling it to create new narratives.

Leaving his studio behind, Bryans describes his latest works as charting a kind of psychedelic road trip, which takes him from the
flooded banks of the river Lea, to the forecourt of the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, and under the arches of London bridge. Continuously looking to the ground and making use of what he finds along the way from washed up footballs, to a dead hedgehog, and parts of burned out cars he creates live or ephemeral works that he compulsively photographs as they evolve, as if to see the objects and actions more clearly.

The resulting new series consist of over 2500 different 35mm photographs compiled in grids. Reaching up to twelve feet long, Bryans likens the large-scale works to the backgrounds in Medieval tapestries, wherein many small squares and geometric shapes fizz away behind the illustrated scenes, flattening out the distance between foreground and background. Creating some kind of crazed order from an intuitive act, the grids are a simultaneous perspective on the process of looking over time, which in turn become mesmerizing and disorienting images in their own right.

Matt Bryans was born in Croydon in 1977, and lives and works in
London.

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Schedule

from May 02, 2009 to May 30, 2009

Opening Reception on 2009-05-02 from 18:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

Matt Bryans

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