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  Mat Collishaw - Resources - The Saatchi Gallery
Mat Collishaw first came to prominence in 1998 at the famed Brit Art Freeze exhibition with a piece entitled Bullet Hole, a large photograph divided into fifteen light-boxes displaying the close-up image of a bullet wound to the head.
The aim of this event is to let art lovers and collectors appreciate the eclectic range – and evolution – of Mat Collishaw’s art (photos, installations, drawings, video projections) from the early years of his career to his latest video installations created especially for this occasion.
Mat Collishaw fuses antique and contemporary technologies in his unique strain of moving-image sculpture, as precious as it is provocative.
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk /artists/mat_collishaw_resources.htm   (391 words)

  
 Mat Collishaw - Photography - The Saatchi Gallery
Central to Mat Collishaw’s work are the themes of illusion and desire, which he uses to draw us into an arena where every-day conventions are broken down and questioned.
Mat Collishaw states: “The type of adverts to be found on television and in glossy magazines are visually designed to have a power over the mind before they can even be questioned.
Mat Collishaw uses mosaic to immortalise his subjects the same way images of saints and martyrs were rendered in early churches, but by doing so he replicates the process of image transmission over the internet.
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk /artists/mat_collishaw.htm   (306 words)

  
 Scotsman.com Living - Beauty lures us to the beastly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Collishaw is the conceptual equivalent of the consummate draughtsman, with the rare talent of making works which, like a fine line drawing, at first sight appear simple, but possess the power to conjure thoughts whose complexity far outweighs their size.
Collishaw is an expert at opening our eyes to such truths, drawing us down to the nasty things that lurk in the undergrowth of life.
Recontextualised via Collishaw’s choice of materials, alluding as it does to traditions of decorative art, it summons the spectre of the victory of bigotry over civilisation and the sad fact that such news footage has subsumed 2000 years of Persian art to become the popular visual identity of that noble culture.
living.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=84602005   (1384 words)

  
 Guardian | Subtlety takes root at the Tate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Collishaw, 33, said he wanted to prick a few consciences.
Another of Collishaw's video installations, Hollow Oak, a rather beautiful take on how photography killed landscape painting, is being shown in the gallery.
Collishaw is best known for his doctored photographs which show him catching fairies with a butterfly net.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3942128-103690,00.html   (259 words)

  
 Mat Collishaw
But Collishaw was never as media-hungry as his peers, and over the years his penchant for elegance has outgrown the basic compulsion to shock.
The Abu Ghraib photos, with their grinning US soldiers, are seen by Collishaw as successors to the old-fashioned spoils of war, those precious chunks of heritage which spill from every corner of the British Museum.
Collishaw is retracing a well-worn path, but with such elegant simplicity that it’s as good as new.
www.artandphilosophy.com /050123a.html   (723 words)

  
 Mat Collishaw 100% Match for Mat Collishaw
Mat Collishaw [British, born in 1966] Guide to pictures of works by Mat Collishaw in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
Mat Collishaw art links/last verified May 9/10, 2005 All images and text on this Mat Collishaw page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise
Mat Collishaw artist portrait, biography and art (Photography)on the-artists.org, resource modern and contemporary art home.
www.just-mats.com /Mat-Collishaw.html   (196 words)

  
 Art Gallery of New South Wales: Contemporary Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Mat Collishaw came to prominence after participating in the exhibition Freeze in 1988, which recognised many of the now famous Young British Artists including Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and Gary Hume.
For that exhibition Collishaw presented a series of 15 light-boxes which in their entirety showed in close detail a bullet hole to the head.
By making transparent the means of construction or through contrasting unlikely material, his work succeeds at attracting and then distancing the viewer by subtly involving them in a mode of deception.
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au /exhibitions/current/contemporary/collection   (5994 words)

  
 Site Gallery | Exhibition Archive | Mat Collishaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Throughout his career Collishaw has appropriated all manner of disturbing images - pornographic images, images of suicide victims, a close-up of a head wound inflicted by an ice pick.
Also part of the exhibition is a large scale projection of a baby, bathed in the ultraviolet light used in public conveniences to prevent drug users locating their veins.
His 1996 series of computer manipulated images of diseased flesh, reworked as the petals of exotic flowers, heralds the increasing use of digital imaging techniques culminating in Collishaw's solo-show at the Lisson Gallery where he exhibited an animation of a night-club stripper morphed together from photographic stills.
www.sitegallery.org /exhibitions/view.php?id=85   (415 words)

  
 Mat Collishaw At Edinburgh's Inverleith House Gallery - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, ...
This collection of photography, video, sculpture and mosaic installation by Mat Collishaw is on show at Edinburgh’s Inverleith House until February 20 2005 and is the artist’s first solo Scottish exhibition.
Collishaw’s perceptive understanding of the mechanics of beauty and entertainment plays a large role in his success.
Collishaw reminds his viewers that while it is widely agreed that information is a positive thing, we should consider why it has been presented and how we choose to use it.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /exh_gfx_en/ART25738.html   (860 words)

  
 Tate | Press Releases | Christmas Tree 1999 by Mat Collishaw (Tate)
He is known for his diverse work in video and photography, in which he explores a wide range of themes taken from cultural history, art history, and the scientific and natural worlds.
Collishaw has had solo exhibitions at the Camden Art Centre, London, the Lisson Gallery, London and the Bloom Gallery in Amsterdam.
Mat Collishaw's installation and the 1999 Christmas card are supported by the Patrons of New Art.
www.tate.org.uk /about/pressoffice/pressreleases/13_1299.htm   (390 words)

  
 Cosmic Galerie :: Exhibitions :: MAT COLLISHAW :: Press release
In his first solo exhibition in France, Mat COLLISHAW will present new works using a range of different media such as photography, painting, video, installation and mosaic.
Silver tears are rolling over the bewitching face of a young girl, decomposed in thirty thousand hand-painted tessels finally appear as the only clues of the resistance of reality to forms of idealisation invoked here trough one of the oldest traditional techniques.
Parallel to the exhibition of Mat COLLISHAW, BDV will present videos by Michael SMITH (Famous quotes from History, 2002) and by John BOCK (Porzellan Isoschizo Küchentat des Neuroderitischen Brockenfalls im Kaffestrudelund das alles ganz Teuer, 2001).
www.cosmicgalerie.com /en/pages/expositions.php?name=matcollishaw   (474 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - Review - Beauty lures us to the beastly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
What matters is not that Mat’s name is on the inside of Tracey’s tent or that he once shared her bed, but that Mat Collishaw is a serious artist.
That he’s as witty as he is intellectual is evinced by his projecting a video of a peacock on to an Art Nouveau screen.
Just such music-hall magic pervades the small but unforgettable Asylum, in which Collishaw projects miniature video footage of naked men adrift on a raft into a water-filled goldfish bowl set on a pile of rocks and sand.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /review.cfm?id=84602005   (1414 words)

  
 Mat Collishaw - Geneva Event   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
For the first time in Switzerland, over the period of several months, public and private spaces will be showing simultaneously works by the English artist Mat Collishaw.
Ancient legends depicting the attraction between beauty and evil/damnation, love and death, the blessed and the cursed are usually found as references in Collishaw’s art - his pieces on Jesus Christ (Shakin’ Jesus, 2003) and Ophelia (Cyrille, 2001) respectively) being strong examples of this.
In his reinterpretation and modernisation of this poem, Collishaw re-articulates one of the dilemmas of art, caught between reflection and reality, and plays with the ambivalence of the metaphor of transformation from the world of shadows to that of substance and ultimately to death.
www.collishaw-genevaevent.com /index.php?sid=12311139006282&id=1   (348 words)

  
 Group show Fifty One Fine Art Photography Antwerpen - Pressrelease
Mat Collishaw, Luca Francesconi, Fraser Sharp, Nathalie Rebholz
Mat Collishaw graduated from Goldsmith's College and has evolved along with the YBA scene.
Collishaw also often stages himself in his photographs, using his own image to create artificial and fictional situations amplified by the artifice of actually being both behind and in front of the camera.
www.undo.net /cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1115635473   (635 words)

  
 Silverwell Fine Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
It's a combination of a psychedelic pencil pattern drawing, silk-screened in glow-in-the-dark ink, which has been litho overprinted with a watercolour image of a man's head.
Mat Collishaw's photographs and videos play illusionary games with seductive imagery of beauty, sex, nature and violence.
Sometimes using new technology, sometimes old, Collishaw twists historical themes with the contemporary to explore and question our visual desires.
www.silverwellfineart.com /collectables.htm   (258 words)

  
 Tate Britain | Christmas Tree
Collishaw has taken a conventional pine tree and dressed it with traditional Christmas decorations.
An angel adorns the top and wrapped presents surround the base of the tree.
Mat Collishaw was born in 1966 in Nottingham.
www.tate.org.uk /britain/exhibitions/christmastree/1999collishaw.htm   (118 words)

  
 Anna and Bernhard Blume, Sophie Calle, Mat Collishaw, Jim Dine, Flor Garduño, Candida Höfer - Museum of Contemporary ...
British artist Mat Collishaw, a manipulator of photography and video, utilized his vast technical expertise to create his 1998 piece Shrunken Heads.
This three-dimensional architectural model of a picturesque town center in England becomes the stage for a semi-violent video projected by laser disk into the town square.
Collishaw‚s narrative lures the viewer into the role of voyeur, simultaneously revealing and questioning society‚s fascination with violence, as well as the ubiquity of brutality and aggression in our culture today.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2000/06/26/27138.html   (806 words)

  
 The Art Fund - I like to get my Loving when I get it on my mind
This is a folding screen fitted with plain translucent glass onto which the image of a proudly strutting peacock glows with its fanned tail filling the screen.
Collishaw often explores the ambiguous relationship between the erotic and the pornographic in his work.
A decorative screen may be seen to have a duality of purpose, offering privacy but also the tantalising possibility of exposure.
www.artfund.org /artwork/9563/i-like-to-get-my-loving-when-i-get-it-on   (153 words)

  
 Small World: Dioramas in Contemporary Art - Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego - Absolutearts.com
Relating closely to the function and era of their containers, Cohen’s tiny, uninhabited spaces, many of which are accompanied by soundtracks, evoke powerful sense memories of private and public spaces.
British artist Mat Collishaw uses projected video to juxtapose expectations and reality.
Onto a model of a quaint English town, Collishaw projects images of marauding hooligans who brawl outside a pub, torch a car, and stagger off into the night singing drunkenly.
www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2000/01/27/26484.html   (1169 words)

  
 Mat Collishaw Online
Original works by Mat Collishaw available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Search AllPosters for reproductions of works by Mat Collishaw
All images and text on this Mat Collishaw page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/collishaw_mat.html   (116 words)

  
 wallspace gallery: I, Assassin
I, Assassin is a document of that world.
Mat Collishaw’s video Blind Date: The artist on a blindfolded journey.
He takes ecstasy on a plane and flies from London to Madrid, and goes directly to the Prado Museum.
www.wallspacegallery.com /0402_pr.html   (920 words)

  
 BBC - Arts - George Cruikshank - art, alcohol and satire
The flagship of Irish restauranteur Oliver Peyton who, even when it was just a derelict basement put the Atlantic Bar and Grill on the artworld map by hosting an installation by Mat Collishaw featuring a large framed reproduction of Velazquez' Rokeby Venus shattered by a bullet hole.
Mat Collishaw, Sarah Lucas and Angus Fairhurst are amongst those who have designed labels for Atlantic's house wine and then played a large part in consuming it; while pieces by Douglas Gordon, Tatsuo Miyajima and Mariko Mori line the bar and walls.
The Atlantic is also the setting for Sam Taylor-Wood's 1997 video piece Atlantic in which a couple have an emotional argument in its lofty dining room.
www.bbc.co.uk /arts/multimedia/alcohol/atlantic.shtml   (178 words)

  
 www.likeyou.com - Penetration - Ricci Albenda, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, John Bock, Chris Burden, Maurizio ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Marianne Boesky and Friedrich Petzel galleries are pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition curated by Mark Fletcher.
Works to be exhibited range from the various medias of painting, sculpture, drawing, video projection and installation from the 1950’s to the present.
The exhibition explores the more formal, conceptual, architectural and the overtly sexual aspects of this topic, while creating an environment, which engenders an open dialog between more established works with works, which have only recently been made.
www.likeyou.com /archives/penetration_mboesky_nyc.htm   (244 words)

  
 Dazed and Confused - PowerBookSearch!
Nick Knight & Peter Saville, Gillian Wearing, the Chapman brothers, Marc Quinn, Mat Collishaw and many others were...
Dazed and Confused is one of the UK's most respected style magazines and was formed in 1994 as a group voice for London's exploding creative scene.
Contributors include Nick Knight, Chapman brothers, Paul McCarthy, Gillian Wearing, Rankin, Phil Poynter, Mat Collishaw, Sam Taylor Wood, Marc Quinn, Jack Webb and Nick Waplington.
www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch1861541384.html   (315 words)

  
 Analix Forever: Mat Collishaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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The aim of this event (www.collishaw-genevaevent.com) is to let art lovers and collectors appreciate the eclectic range ­ and evolution ­ of Collishaw's art (photos, installations, drawings, video projections) from the early years of his career to his latest video installations created especially for this occasion.
Ancient legends depicting the attraction between beauty and evil/damnation, love and death, the blessed and the cursed are usually found as references in Collishaw's art - his pieces on Jesus Christ (Shaking Jesus, 2003) and Ophelia (Cyrille, 2001) respectively) being strong examples of this.
www.artnet.com /event/59309/mat-collishaw.html   (377 words)

  
 Sophie Bernhard - Moviefone
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Anna and Bernhard Blume, Sophie Calle, Mat Collishaw, Jim Dine...
Anna and Bernhard Blume, Sophie Calle, Mat Collishaw, Jim Dine, Flor Garduño, Candida Höfer: Museum of Contemporary Photography From June 24 through August...
movies.aol.com /celebrity/sophie-bernhard/195204/main   (108 words)

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