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Matt Small - Mai

Sale price€5.276,95
€5.276,95 or €527,69 over 10 months with Art Money or Own Art (UK Residents only)

Mai by Matt Small
Original artwork, oil on found object
Signed by the artist
64 x 44 x 3 cm
Introducing Mai, an oil portrait by artist Matt Small. Crafted on a found object, this piece of contemporary art is sure to captivate. Unique artwork that showcases Small's individual style. Celebrate the modern art world with this unique piece.
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Matt Small - Mai - JG Contemporary

Matt Small - Mai

JG Contemporary

Pickup available, usually ready in 24 hours

45 Churchfield Road
London W3 6AY
United Kingdom

+447525143009
Matt Small - Mai - JG Contemporary
Matt Small - Mai Sale price€5.276,95
€5.276,95 or €527,69 over 10 months
Matt Small

About Matt Small

Concerned with how the institutional British social system leaves no room for those on the periphery of society, Small's portraits reminds viewers of the importance of humanity. It comes as no surprise that his raw works have won the Villiers David Art Prize and been nominated for the BP Portrait Award.
His haunting pieces on metal pull the invisible from the city crowds. In a world obsessed with likes and followers on social media, Small's rough-cut and ragged works offer something real. In art history, portraiture has long been associated with the rich or famous, those who can afford to be painted and those that people want to look at. Instead, Small's oeuvre shakes up history by offering diverse subjects.

Small often finds his sitters by taking to the streets of London with a video camera, capturing them in their undisturbed worlds Small also finds the materials for his work which includes anything found on the street, from fridges and other household appliances to wrecked cars.
Continuing his theme of reusing materials from the city, Small often works with paint that has been thrown away by others, meaning his works are in a variety of mediums including household paint and oils. Like his subjects, the physical elements of his works are a product of the urban environment, consisting of pieces that society has disregarded.
Matt's recent artworks incorporate the fluid, colourful, abstracted faces of our youth with geometric designs that merge from the background composition into the portraits.
The complexity and rigidness of these patterns and shapes representing that of the city environments that surround each of the subjects; contrasting, and at the same time, informing and becoming elements of what makes them who they are as people.

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