Image by Matthew Stone. Courtesy of Gentle Monster
London-based artist Matthew Stone is known for working across mediums. He combines traditional painting techniques with digitalisation to create figures that look both three-dimensional and hollow, as if he had photographed a very delicate sculpture made out of a thin layer of acrylic paint. Recently applying his hybrid technique to the cover art for FKA Twigs’ latest album Magdelene, now Stone is bringing his trademark aesthetic to the first instalment of Korean eyewear brand Gentle Monster’s “My Mars” campaign, with other interpretations to follow.
While the compositions are reminiscent of Renaissance paintings depicting Hellenistic nude scenes, the clash of colours, computer-generated hair and addition of Gentle Monster’s Bibi, Bling and Cracker frames crates a surrealscape somewhere between the past and future.
Check out the images from the collection below:
Images by Matthew Stone. Courtesy of Gentle Monster