Nowhere
Duo show, with Matthew Atkinson and Colombe Marcasiano
March 1st - March 22, 2008
Galerie de la Friche Belle de Mai, 13003 Marseille
Matthew Atkinson and Colombe Marcasiano, currently in residence at Triangle France, explore in this duo exhibition the moment when an object becomes a work of art. Simultaneously here and now, yet already escaped—transferred into the autonomous sphere of art—their sources of inspiration, such as urban furniture, abandoned structures, or plants, emerge from an imaginary realm where the urban lies fallow, and reality becomes the plausible backdrop for fictions left to the viewer’s interpretation.
Atkinson’s paintings depict abandoned buildings in dreamlike settings, where a textile-like and stereotypical nature acts as a foil.
Colombe Marcasiano, in the manner of a cartoonist, installs sculptures that form a reworked set, where textures intermingle to suggest incongruous and mischievous uses.
Matthew Atkinson and Colombe Marcasiano are Triangle France Residents in 2008.
