Matthew Brannon (°1971, New York) gets inspired by everyday objects and disposable items such as take-out-menus, advertisements and posters as well as slips-of-the-tongue and overheard conversations. Elements from these sources are reworked in highly original designs.
Brannon makes paintings, prints, spatial installations and sound works. For his works on paper he uses slightly antiquated or labour-intensive techniques such as letterpress or screen prints. His compositions combine in a special way recognizable images with poetic fragments. Matthew Brannon presents an inventive visual language which the onlooker can easily recognize. At first glance his works show a certain elegance, but at the same time they contain a humorous and social undercurrent.
His spatial installations are much like the scene of a crime in a noir film, where familiar objects are arranged in mysterious configurations. His works conjure up the modern metropolis, such as airports, hotels and impersonal public spaces and invite the viewer to find new meanings to familiar elements.
Mouse Trap, Light, Switch is the second and revised configuration of the exhibition, formerly titled, Reservations from the Ursula Blickle Stiftung curated by Daniel Birnbaum. In January of 2011 a third manifestation will take place at the Portikus, in Frankfurt.
The exhibition at M brings together a series of unique prints, custom-made sculptures, two sound works and a number of new paintings. This exhibition is part of the series of solo presentations in which emerging artists combine new work with a selection of existing artworks.
Matthew Brannon
Matthew Brannon
Matthew Brannon was born in St. Maries, Idaho, in 1971. He grew up with the deathrock scene which had emerged in Los Angeles in 1979. Brannon studied visual art, art theory and psychology at the University of California in Los Angeles and at Columbia University in New York. He now lives and works in New York. His work has been shown at numerous international exhibitions, most recently at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York and The Approach in London. Brannon has forthcoming exhibitions at David Kordansky in Los Angeles, Gio Marconi in Milan and Office Baroque in Antwerp.
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