{"id":8072,"date":"2013-02-19T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T10:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=8072"},"modified":"2013-02-19T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T10:21:17","slug":"mat-collishaw-comments-on-financial-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/mat-collishaw-comments-on-financial-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mat Collishaw \u00e4u\u00dfert sich zur Finanzkrise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=size--small><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8075\" title=\"Mat Collishaw, This is Not an Exit, 2013. Installation shot at Blain Southern. Image Courtesy of the Artist and Blain|Southern, Photographer Peter Mallet, 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Install-Shot_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mat Collishaw\u2019s second solo show at Blain Southern, London, entitled \u201cThis Is Not An Exist\u201d, is a return to the medium of oil painting. The artist known for extracting beauty from the seemingly uncomfortable continues his play of illusion in which nothing is literal. Collishaw presents his first series of oil paintings and tackles issues surrounding the current financial crisis. The result is a conflation of illusion with delusion and reality with dreams, amounting to a multi-faceted body of work, where each painting is made to look like a blown up page of a magazine, used as a cocaine wrap. Sleek caught up with the artist at the show\u2019s opening to find out more.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sleek: Why did you choose the financial crisis as your topic?<br \/>Mat Collishaw:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s a malaise that percolates through everyone\u2019s life at the moment, particularly in this country. It sets the tone for the time that we\u2019re living in. It\u2019s hard to ignore this bleak financial environment so it seemed appropriate to take it on but I thought that if I\u2019m going to do it then I\u2019m not going to do it directly or moralistically or [in a manner] that\u2019s judgmental or boring in any way. The cocaine wraps were my Trojan horse to bring the idea in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explain the significance of the cocaine wraps.<br \/><\/strong>Initially, I intended the show to look like a modernist painting show with abstract and pop-art paintings, then you get to realize that they\u2019re are actually empty cocaine wraps, the remnants of a debauched night, the last thing that you have before you start looking into the abyss, and that naturally lends itself to the situation we are living in at the moment. We\u2019ve binged, we spent on credit, we\u2019re living in debt and we\u2019ve finally got to that point where we realize there\u2019s no more left.<\/p>\n<p class=size--small><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8076\" title=\"Mat Collishaw Sinners 2012 Oil on canvas 225 x 225 cm. Image Courtesy of the Artist and Blain|Southern Photographer Matthew Hollow, 2012 \u00a9 the artist\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Sinners.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"646\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What role do illusions play in your latest series of work?<br \/><\/strong>I was trying to get several different levels of illusions and delusion and combine them together. For example the paintings in the first room look like modernist abstractions but they are actually classic trompe l\u2019oeil paintings \u2013 an illusion you get involved in. Drugs \u2013 another delusion, you think you can live forever, full of self-confidence. And again, the world of fashion and advertising with the delusion people are seduced by. Finally, credit is another delusion, believing there is more money than there actually is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you decide to use oil on canvas?<br \/><\/strong>I used to use them when I first came to London but I was dissuaded by the conceptual art staff at Goldsmiths College, where it was considered laughable to use any manual techniques. To go back it was always a challenge. It\u2019s like if you\u2019re an experimental musician, can you make a three-minute pop song that does the job? With oil on canvas can you make a painting, put it on the wall and let it do the job so it acknowledges art history and is interesting to look at? Also, before Christmas about three years ago, Damien Hirst gave me a huge easel with a big bow on it and about ten boxes full of hundreds of oil paints, brushes, palettes and white spirit. It just took me time to start thinking of a way to use them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What message would you want people to take away from this exhibition?<br \/><\/strong>A good artwork can be many things layered into one simple thing and to appreciate the play between that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mat Collishaw<\/strong> <strong>THIS IS NOT AN EXIT<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blainsouthern.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blain Southern, London<\/a><br \/>Until 30 March<\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mat Collishaw\u2019s second solo show at Blain Southern, London, entitled \u201cThis Is Not An Exist\u201d, is a return to the medium of oil painting. The artist known for extracting beauty from the seemingly uncomfortable continues his play of illusion in which nothing is literal. 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