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lay down

Leah Capaldi,  Lay Down , 2016. Image courtesy of Matt's Gallery and the artist. Photograph by Jonathan Bassett.

December 2016

By Matt's Gallery on 30 November 2016

Current Leah Capaldi, Lay Down, Matt’s Gallery’s new temporary space, 11 November – 18 December 2016, Friday – Sunday, 12 – 6pm Lay Down is the first major solo show by artist Leah Capaldi. The exhibition opens Matt’s Gallery’s temporary new space in Bermondsey, marking a new era for the gallery as it moves south […]

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October 2016

October 2016

By Matt's Gallery on 5 October 2016

Matt’s Gallery’s new space in Bermondsey opens with Leah Capaldi’s Lay Down     Matt’s Gallery’s new temporary space on Decima Street in Bermondsey opens with Leah Capaldi’s solo show Lay Down on Saturday 29th October 2016 from 3 – 6pm. Join us to celebrate a new era in Matt’s Gallery’s 36 year history, as […]

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Hayley Newman, Domestique,  2010-13. Courtesy the artist

August 2016

By Matt's Gallery on 1 August 2016

Matt’s Gallery welcomes new Deputy Director Soraya Rodriguez Soraya Rodriguez has been appointed as the new Deputy Director of Matt’s Gallery, “I’m thrilled to be joining Matt’s Gallery at such an exciting time and looking forward to building on its unique legacy.” She joins us having founded and directed Zoo Art Fair from 2004 – […]

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🦉Lubion by Mania Akbari (@maniaakbari.film) and 🦉Lubion by Mania Akbari (@maniaakbari.film) and Douglas White (@douglaswhiteart) continues on MattFlix until 5.59pm 23rd April. 

Don't miss this intimate, hypnotic short film by the creators of 2019's A Moon For My Father, screening now at mattflix.video
🎂 Happy birthday MattFlix! MattFlix is one yea 🎂 Happy birthday MattFlix!  MattFlix is one year old. To coincide with its anniversary we are delighted to make the archive of works available to view.  Over the last twelve months we have brought you 21 online projects and screenings, each made available to view for a short time only.  To mark our first birthday we are delighted to make available an archive of previously screened works by: Paul Eachus & Nooshin Farhid (@nooshin.farhid), Juan Cruz (@juancruz250), Lindsay Seers (@lindsayseers1), Nathaniel Mellors (@nathanielmellors), Jordan Baseman (@jordanbaseman), Jennet Thomas (@jennetthomas), Willie Doherty, Joey Holder (@joeyholder__), Janette Parris (@janetteparris), Richie Moment (@richiemoment), Bronwen Buckeridge (@bronwenbuckeridge), Tai Shani (@taishani), Melanie Jackson (@melanie.jjj), Sally O'Reilly, Suzanne Treister, and Mania Akbari (@maniaakbari.film) & Douglas White (@douglaswhiteart). With special thanks to all the artists who have taken part so far, and to you for watching.  We are looking forward to the year(s) ahead.
⬆️ Watch the trailer here for MattFlix's curre ⬆️ Watch the trailer here for MattFlix's current instalment, Lubion - a film by @maniaakbari.film and @douglaswhiteart. 

Until 5.59pm 23 April at mattflix.video
Online at MattFlix: Mania Akbari & Douglas White, Online at MattFlix:

Mania Akbari & Douglas White, Lubion (2019)

Until 5.59pm 23 April at mattflix.video

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🧬 Online now at MattFlix: Lubion (2019) by Mani 🧬 Online now at MattFlix: Lubion (2019) by Mania Akbari (@maniaakbari.film) and Douglas White (@douglaswhiteart).

Taking its title from the eponymous IVF hormone treatment undertaken by Akbari, Lubion journeys through a shifting psychological and corporeal terrain borne of the powerful effects of this process. The film layers intimate home footage with vibrant CG renderings of medical imagery, veering between the personal and the clinical. The result is a hallucinatory landscape, soundtracked by Shahin Entezami (@shahin_entezami), in which reality mixes with a chimeric techno-natural vision of inner and outer worlds.

Lubion was originally commissioned by @modern_forms and is distributed by @cryptofiction.

Until 5.59pm 23 April at mattflix.video

[ID: A still from Lubion (2019) by Mania Akbari and Douglas White. A pink-hued prescription packet of Lubion 25mg solution for injection sits flat at the centre. Behind it is a rich blue background, cut through the centre horizontally with a graphic of a lighter blue helix strand of DNA.]
⚠️ You have 24 hours left to catch works by Le ⚠️ You have 24 hours left to catch works by Lea Porre (@leaporre), Zein Majali (@zmajali), Justin Piccirilli (@justin.piccirilli), Alessandro Moroni (@utopian_realism), Friederike Steinert (@friederike.steinert), Loretta London (#lorettalondon), Daniel Hopp (#davidhopp), David Head (@davidahed), and Paola Estrella (@py_star). Online at MattFlix in conjunction with Everything Forever, a three-week online festival which features over 90 artists from the Contemporary Art Practice programme at the @royalcollegeofart, in association with @rca_criticalpractice, @movingimagerca and @rcapublicsphere.

Until 5.59 26 March at mattflix.video

[ID: A still from Lea Porre's Royal Fate is Fluid (2020), in which the decapitated head of King Louis XVI of France, coated in silver and trailing threads of spine and veins - or possibly wires - floats through a surreal 3D rendered graphic landscape of sand and palm trees.]
🍽️ Catch Leah Capaldi (@leahcapaldi) tonight 🍽️ Catch Leah Capaldi (@leahcapaldi) tonight at 6.30pm GMT for Artists in Conversation: Performance Art under Covid-19, with @saloon.london

The event will be led by Emily Perry (@emilylouiseperry), with Leah Capaldi, Rosie Gibbens (@rosiegibbens), Nina Davies (@influential_bro) and Libby Heaney (@libbyheaneystudio).

[ID: An image of Leah Capaldi's performance sculpture, Leg, in which a performer lies front-down on the floor and props up a round table with one leg for the duration of a meal. After dessert, they stand up to exit and the table collapses. Pictured here mid-meal/ mid-performance. Robin Klassnik, Matt's Gallery founder and director, sits at the table in conversation.]
🪟 Have you spotted Fiona Crisp's Belvedere, exh 🪟 Have you spotted Fiona Crisp's Belvedere, exhibited as part of DIVISION/REVISION? Curated by Uta Kögelsberger, the series sees 15 artworks rotating daily across UK cities. You can still catch Crisp's work in different locations throughout Birmingham and London until March 30th. 

Locations:
24/03 and 25/03: 396 Moseley Road, Birmingham, B12 9BY
26/03: High Street, Deritend, Birmingham, B9 4AA
27/03: Liverpool Road/ Holloway Road, London, N7 8DJ
29/03 and 30/03: Butcher Row/ Limehouse, London, E1W 3EP

Crisp says: “Division/Revision creates an incredible opportunity for an artwork to have a fleeting exchange with an unexpecting and unexpected audience […] Temporarily inserted within the fabric of the city it plays with dualities of inside and outside, public and private, confinement and freedom, rural and urban.”

[ID: 4 images, each one showing the same billboard in different urban locations across Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield and London. The image on the billboard is an artwork by Fiona Crisp entitled Belvedere. A white-gloved hand holds up a postcard-sized window of card painted to resemble a brickwork wall, with a rectangular hollow in the middle. Through the hollow and around the card can be seen a picturesque Lake District landscape of green hills and trees and a lake.]
Don't forget: you have until this Friday to catch Don't forget: you have until this Friday to catch Everything Forever on MattFlix, featuring works by Lea Porre (@leaporre), Zein Majali (@zmajali), Justin Piccirilli (@justin.piccirilli), Alessandro Moroni (@utopian_realism), Friederike Steinert (@friederike.steinert), Loretta London (#lorettalondon), Daniel Hopp (#davidhopp), David Head (@davidahed), and Paola Estrella (@py_star), in association with @rca_criticalpractice, @movingimagerca and @rcapublicsphere.

Until 5.59 26 March at mattflix.video

[ID: The words Everything Forever in black against a bright green background. The ‘E’ and ‘F’ at the beginning of both words are larger than the rest of the text and contain green fragments of code. The green background is lightest at the centre, then darkening into a ring shape, before lightening in hue again at the corners. In the space between the two words, which sit one on top of the other, is a small image of a circular plate with mountainous forms on its underside, turned facing down.]
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“Baseman’s work frequently addresses subjects outside his lived experience. He is acutely aware of the potentially problematic nature of this, but at no point does ‘A Different Kind of Different’ feel exploitative. His interview-based practice and method of creative non-fiction are founded on consent and a deep respect for his participants/collaborators.”

Sara Jaspan on Jordan Baseman’s online film ‘A Different Kind of Different’, with its tales of breast cancer and the liberatory power of mastectomy tattoos.

Only in the March Art Monthly:
www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/issue/march-2021

Access all 444 issues for less than £3/month: http://exacteditions.com/artmonthly

[image: Jordan Baseman, ‘A Different Kind of Different’, 2020]
🚨For one week only, MattFlix is hosting a selec 🚨For one week only, MattFlix is hosting a selection of nine moving image works as part of the three-week online festival Everything Forever, which features over 90 artists from the Contemporary Art Practice programme at the Royal College of Art, London. 

Everything Forever describes itself as a ‘collective spirit, a breath of sweet air, circulating, criss-crossing time zones and continents, navigating the virtual, longing for the physical.’ 

Selected especially for MattFlix are nine works by Paola Estrella, David Head, Daniel Hopp, Loretta London, Zein Majali, Alessandro Moroni, Justin Piccirilli, Léa Porré, and Friederike Steinert. 

Until 5.59pm 26 March at mattflix.video
🌌 It's your last chance to go biospherical-isla 🌌 It's your last chance to go biospherical-island hopping in Suzanne Treister's TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS: New Cosmological Models for Survival on MattFlix.
 
TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS consists of multiple components under the categories, Project Diagrams, Earth Eco Systems and Architectures, Reinvented Technologies, Interplanetary Social Structures, Designs for Spacecraft, Apparel, Interplanetary Space Habitations, Interplanetary Meditation and Biospheres Islands, Crystal Architectures, Vultures, Rituals, Stars and Visions.
 
Don't miss it!
 
All works courtesy the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art, London (@annelyjuda) and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York (@ppowgallery)
 
Until 5.59pm 19 March at mattflix.video
 
([ID: a 37 second looping video, no sound. One of Suzanne Treister's watercolour 'biosphere island' designs  floats across a black background from left to right, slowly changing colour as it goes - a mix of rich greens, pinks, reds and browns. The island design features 5 rounded peaks, like hills, stemming from a rocky looking base.]
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It's the final week to catch Suzanne Treister's TE It's the final week to catch Suzanne Treister's TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS: New Cosmological Models for Survival on MattFlix.

Countering invasive agendas of governments and the private space industry, TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS proposes a political metamorphosis and transmutation of human consciousness towards a new Earthly and interplanetary paradigm.

All works courtesy the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art, London (@annelyjuda) and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York (@ppowgallery)

Until 5.59pm 19 March at mattflix.video

[ID: a watercolour diagram against an off-white background consisting of 15 floating images in bright pastel colours. At the centre sits a circle with many different coloured strata - in the centre of the circle is a small circle which is labelled EARTH. Circling around EARTH are layers which read: TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS; SHAMANIC ENERGY SOURCES; and RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES. The central circle is surrounded by smaller icons depicting  the many categories of the work. Clockwise from top: 'Reinvented technologies'; 'Crystal Architectures'; 'Apparel'; 'Interplanetary Space Habitations'; 'Cosmic Permacultures'; 'Interplanetary Meditation and Biosphere Islands'; 'Spacecraft Design'; 'Cosmic Energy'; 'Earth-Space Architectures'; 'Earth Ecosystems'. They are connected by small blue dots. Four more categories sit in the corners: 'Vultures'; 'Rituals'; 'Stars'; and 'Visions'.]
🛰 We’re halfway through Suzanne Treister’s 🛰 We’re halfway through Suzanne Treister’s TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS: New Cosmological Models for Survival on MattFlix. Climb aboard while you can!

TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS encourages the unification of art, spirituality, science and technology through hypnotic visions of our potential communal futures alongside those of possible extraterrestrial entities or civilisations. 

All works courtesy the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art, London (@annelyjuda) and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York (@ppowgallery).

Until 5.59pm 19 March at mattflix.video

[ID: a watercolour diagram titled TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS: from terrestrial to cosmocentric ethics via terrestrial futurisms. Against an off-white background is a large oval painted in pastel-shades, lined with a starry border. The top of the oval reads: TERRESTRIAL ETHICS; the bottom reads: COSMOCENTRIC ETHICS. At its centre is a brown space-ship shape overlaid with a small ball-and-stick-type diagram in dark blue. Emanating from its base are 17 coloured beams. The central beams are each labelled with a strand of ethics: bio ethics; astro ethics; mi/ai ethics; nano ethics; neuro ethics; info ethics; evolutionary ethics; societal ethics; techno ethics; robo ethics.
The top half of the oval is filled with clouds against a dark purple-brown background. The clouds read, from left to right: cyber feminism; indo futurism; afro futurism; post genderism; trans humanism; techno gaianism; post humanism; gulf futurism; asian futurism.]
Thank you @art_monthly_uk for this thoughtful writ Thank you @art_monthly_uk for this thoughtful write-up by Sara Jaspan of Jordan Baseman’s A Different Kind of Different (@jordanbaseman @kindofdifferentfilm) and it’s surrounding online event series, which took place in Jan 2021.

More information, including a teaser for the film and details of the events, can be found at kindofdifferent.org 

The review is available to read in this month’s issue of Art Monthly 🗞
🚀Online now as part of MattFlix: TECHNOSHAMANIC 🚀Online now as part of MattFlix: TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS: New Cosmological Models for Survival by Suzanne Treister.

TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS presents microcosmic non-colonialist plans towards a techno-spiritual imaginary of alternative visions of survival on earth and inhabitation of the cosmos.

All works courtesy the artist, Annely Juda Fine Art (@annelyjuda), London and P.P.O.W. Gallery New York (@ppowgallery).

Until 5.59pm 19 March at mattflix.video
It is with great sadness that we announce the pass It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Gerard Hemsworth (1945-2021).

He was, in the 1970s, part of a generation of British conceptual artists that included Tim Head and Richard Long; artists who used text and language and created books. I was introduced to him by John Hilliard.

This is what I thought he was going to bring to Matt’s Gallery when we did our first show together in 1983 – I had come to know his work through his austere and pared down couplings of objects and text.

I was quite surprised when he arrived with three paintings combining nudes, figures and mythological themes. These works were the forerunners of a turn towards more painterly concerns that he continued to develop throughout his life. The works he went on to create were highly coded and yet also retained a playful, simple and whimsical quality that made them engaging and endearing.

This was the first of three shows we would make together, including Means to an End, 1983, and Self Portraits in 1988. Our last show with him was 2015’s Nothing To Declare – an exhibition of a body of work depicting highly stylised cacti in minimal, almost non-existent landscapes. He was a dapper, handsome man with impeccable taste and a beautifully designed and decorated home. In many ways he looked like his art: pared-down, smart and clean. He had recently moved to Hastings and built a beautiful house with a lake and a fantastic studio with his wife Sue.

I had a phone call with Gerard a few days before he died and we enthusiastically discussed some prints that had recently been found in Holland. He wanted to donate some to the gallery to support our fundraising endeavours and for me to donate one to the Government Art Collection.

(Continues in comments)
Suzanne Treister MattFlix PV on Zoom/in space Suzanne Treister MattFlix PV on Zoom/in space
Online now as part of MattFlix: Suzanne Treister Online now as part of MattFlix: 

Suzanne Treister’s TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS: New Cosmological Models for Survival (2020-2021).

Take a trip through Suzanne Treister's online presentation of TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS: New Cosmological Models for Survival, a digital platform hosted by MattFlix for one month. From crystalline architectures to prismatic apparel, TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS gathers film, audio, diagrams and works on paper to build a speculative atlas of alternative existence.

All works courtesy the artist, @annelyjuda London and @ppowgallery New York.

Online until 5.59pm 19 March at mattflix.video

[ID: A watercolour network diagram in pinks, blues, greens, yellows and purples. The top node reads 'COSMOLOGICAL MODELS FOR NON-COLONIST NON-INVASIVE INTERPLANETARY FUTURES' and another large node at the base reads 'PLANET EARTH / PERMACULTURAL ECO SPHERE'. Multiple categories branch from them, including 'COSMIC SOCIAL STRUCTURES', 'VISIONARY INTERSTELLAR ARCHITECTURES' and 'BIO GEO CHEMICAL CYCLING'. On either side of the diagram is a circular badge-like icon, also in pastel-hued watercolour, reading (on the left) 'TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS EARTH FORCE' and (on the right) 'TECHNOSHAMANIC SYSTEMS SPACE FORCE'. The background is a photograph of a densely starry galaxy.]
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