Madonna, 2002. Ceramic, cement, wood, paint. 425x258
Mat Collishaw (born 1961, Nottingham, UK) is an artist based in London.Collishaw attended Goldsmiths, University of London (1986-9), alongside the likes of Damien Hirst and other prominent YBAs.His first show outside United Kingdom was in Geneva, at Analix Forever Gallery. He has shown work internationally in many important exhibitions including “Freeze” at Surrey Docks in London, “Controlled” at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, “The Parable Show” at Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld in Munich, “Sensation” at the Royal Academy of Art in London and “The Passing” at Galeria Helga de Alvear in Madrid. He is represented by Grimm/Rosenfeld in Munich, Tanya Bonakdar in New York and Cosmic Gallerie in Paris.He was represented for a time by the Lisson Gallery and had a relationship with Tracey Emin. His work uses photography and video.
Mat Collishaw (born 1961, Nottingham, UK) is an artist based in London.Collishaw attended Goldsmiths, University of London (1986-9), alongside the likes of Damien Hirst and other prominent YBAs.His first show outside United Kingdom was in Geneva, at Analix Forever Gallery. He has shown work internationally in many important exhibitions including “Freeze” at Surrey Docks in London, “Controlled” at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, “The Parable Show” at Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld in Munich, “Sensation” at the Royal Academy of Art in London and “The Passing” at Galeria Helga de Alvear in Madrid. He is represented by Grimm/Rosenfeld in Munich, Tanya Bonakdar in New York and Cosmic Gallerie in Paris.He was represented for a time by the Lisson Gallery and had a relationship with Tracey Emin. His work uses photography and video.
His best known work is Bullet Hole which is a closeup photo of a bullet hole in a head, mounted on 15 light boxes. Since then is work has changed to deal with elements of fantasy and illusion - notably fairies.Mat Collishaw biggest break came in 1997 when he featured in the infamous ‘Sensation’ exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in London. In ‘Sensation’, Collishaw displayed large scale tiled photographs of a bullet wound in a head; this work is a good indicator of Collishaw’s artistic interests and practices. He typically takes imagery which is at once shocking yet strangely beautiful in order to examine the beguiling nature of photography and the seduction of visual imagery. Collishaw uses contemporary images alongside techniques and styles which are reminiscent of much older art, for example he often utilises a mosaic effect which, while alluding to religious art and Ancient Rome, is also now associated with pixelated digital imagery. In this way Collishaw brings together a variety of connotations in one piece that is both traditional and contemporary; dichotomies of life and death and attraction and repulsion are central to Collishaw’s art which tests our natural responses to disquieting imagery when dressed as sacred, slick or stunning.
Known most widely for his photographs and videos, Collishaw’s work now stretches to installation, drawing and painting.Mat Collishaw was raised a Christadelphian. His parents chose not to have a TV, celebrate Christmas or birthdays.
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Artista británico. Estudia primero en el Politécnico de Trent (1985-1986) y después en el Goldmiths College de Londres (1986-1989). Durante su estancia en esta escuela Damien Hirst le invita a participar en la mítica muestra “Freeze” (1988) que contribuyó de manera decisiva al lanzamiento de los yBa (Young British Artists).
Su obra gira en torno a obsesiones como el sexo, la violencia o la depravación. Uno de sus trabajos más conocidos, con el cual se dio a conocer en “Freeze”, es Bullet Hole, compuesto por quince cajas de luz que iluminan una fotografía en primer plano de una herida en la cabeza. Otra de sus piezas, Ultraviolet baby, muestra el vídeo de un bebé al que se le está cambiando el pañal. Esta imagen de inocencia aparece bañada en una luz azulada reminiscente de la luz ultravioleta que se utiliza en los urinarios públicos para evitar que los drogadictos puedan pincharse. Esta clase de contrastes y paradojas entre luz y oscuridad, inocencia y perversidad, vertebran la obra del creador británico que saca buen partido de los sentimientos encontrados que el espectador siente ante sus imágenes.
Su trabajo ha podido ser visto en individuales como “Live/Life”, en el Museo de Arte Moderno de París (1996) o “Ultraviolet Baby”, en el Shoreditch Town Hall de Londres (2001) y en colectivas como la mencionada “Freeze” en Surrey Docks, Londres (1988) o "Sensation", en la Royal Academy of Art, Londres (1997).
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