Adam Matak
ADAM MATAK: MYSTERY IN THE MUSEUM
(Written for the Thames Art Gallery Catalogue for the show, "Maintaining Critical Distance") Above & Below (Man in the Red Sweater) Meeting The Persistence of Memory The Last Judgement Social Boost Relative Deprivation & the Comfort of Luxury Veritas/Vanitas Fall of Man The Physical Impossibility of theDeath of Painting (RED) Common Grave Possession The Age of Arrogance Philistine Liberation Escape Route The Critic The Physical Impossibility of Death (of Painting) David The Scholar The Treachery of Images Difference & Repetition Innocent Eye Test Portrait of a Young Scholar The Hero The Big Payback Sacre Bleu! Paid In Full The Most Beautiful Painting In Wallaceburg
Works on Canvas
Examining connectivity & reception, Matak has created a series of works exploring the gallery as social space. Working in both image-making and narration, Matak’s paintings depict different figures (“the lookers”) interacting on the stage of the gallery space.


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