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10/11/2006

Mathew Hale

Galerie Jan Wentrup, Berlin

Finding, Making, Telling

On November 10, 2006, Galerie Jan Wentrup will open its first exhibition of works by the British artist Mathew Hale.

In Hale’s works, book pages, text fragments, graphic structures, and figures in ink, as well as photographic moments of reality, are combined into new visual structures, according to the collage principle. Found and invented things are thus combined and confront each other as different layers of reality, directly entering into a narrative structure. These new combinations inevitably challenge the beholder to read the recoded visual elements in their (new) context.

The formal juxtaposing of “real" and “imagined" elements, found and added objects in the picture, corresponds in terms of content with different systems of representation and different ways of generating meaning. Through the combination of new content in the picture, creating a narrative by way of collage, Hale questions both their historical construction as well as current ways of functioning. The open-minded discovery of themes, initiated by accidental findings of image and text fragments finally leads to the work of art through a series of associations - thus Hale’s working method stands very much in the tradition of surrealism and dada. Furthermore, the works are also formally related to these art movements, as well as to pop art.

Mathew Hale, born in 1962, studied at the Winchester School of Art and Goldsmith College London. In 2003, his works were shown in a solo show at DAAD Galerie Berlin and also as part of Utopia Stration at the Biennale in Venice. In 2005, he participated in the exhibition White Cube at Palast der Republik in Berlin.

Galerie Jan Wentrup
Choriner Strabe 3 - Berlin

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