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The Egg Carriers<\/em> by Matthew Rose
16″x16″; mixed media collage; 2017
Courtesy of the artist. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

FROM KOLAJ 27<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weekend Plans<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at The New Art Museum in Karuizawa, Japan
7 December 2019-10 January 2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

More than 50 works on canvas and paper, as well as altered objects feature in the artist\u2019s exploration of architectural dream spaces. The collages distill the artist\u2019s abstract and figurative works into a surreal roman \u00e0 clef, a busy, intricate and confounding autobiography of Matthew Rose\u2019s world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition was a News & Notes item in<\/em> KOLAJ #27<\/a>. <\/em>To see the entire issue, SUBSCRIBE<\/a> to <\/em>Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objects like Rose\u2019s \u201cSecond Hand Clock,\u201d \u201cFantasms\u201d and his \u201cEnd of the World\u201d mouse traps are imbued with a philosophical humor particular to the American artist\u2019s interests in linguistics and semiotics. Collages made from kitsch 1970s French pornography books will also be presented; these small, intimate works on paper echo a wordless theater by recasting narratives of faked romantic encounters into odd dramas of longing, boredom, frustration and absurdity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1959 in New York, Matthew Rose attended Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) and moved to Paris in 1992 where he set up his studio from which he has created thousands of collage works and drawings. Mr. Rose\u2019s art works have been acquired by both institutions and private collections throughout Europe, the United States, Canada and South Korea. “Weekend Plans” is Matthew Rose\u2019s first exhibition in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Rose is attracted to found, cut and torn paper as a contemporary language with which to invent narrative and visual space. The medium of collage and its inherent, fragmented nature offers the artist a way to \u201cliterally and metaphorically spell with scissors.\u201d His works are informed by DADA and Fluxus movements as well as 20th century masters such as Joseph Cornell, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ray Johnson and Kurt Schwitters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roma Fade<\/em> by Matthew Rose
16″x16″; mixed media collage; 2017
Courtesy of the artist. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI tend to compose my works rapidly, oftentimes without a conscious design, producing a kind of music out of cuts and scraps.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By slicing up words to the point of non-cognition and minuscule bits of paper, disparate elements recall their origins, and point to the familiar and strange, producing an absence that is present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the collage works, several stamp sheet editions of the artist\u2019s works will be on view \u2013 Rubens Rounding Third<\/em>, a 2009 ode to art and baseball, and a collection of the kitschy \u201cWeekend Plans\u201d (2019). Signed, dated and numbered, only 50 of each of the stamp sheets will be available during the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Book About Death<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Presented in an adjacent gallery at The New Art Museum Karuizawa is the collective global project, “A Book About Death”, conceived and curated by Matthew Rose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launched in 2009 at the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York City as an art installation paying homage to both mail art founder Ray Johnson (1927 – 1995) and his \u201cA Book About Death\u201d (1963 -1965) and the late Fluxus art dealer Emily Harvey (1941 – 2004), Matthew Rose invited artists to contribute self-published editions of 500 cards that would serve as pages for an unbound book on the subject of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Individual boxes of each artist\u2019s works were arranged on the gallery floor to resemble a cemetery. Visitors were invited to take a card from each box and freely collect a complete edition of the entire art work. First, however, they had to get down on their knees to obtain the cards box by box. It was an ordeal to retrieve the cards, but an integral part of the performance of the “A Book About Death” project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Works from the original exhibition are in the permanent collections of MoMA (New York) and LACMA (Los Angeles). “A Book About Death” celebrated its 10th anniversary with a museum exhibition at the Islip Art Museum on Long Island, New York this past September. Thus far, some 30 exhibitions of the project have taken place throughout Europe, the United States, Brazil and Australia and have involved as many as 7,000 artists from approximately 50 countries. This is the first time “A Book About Death” has been exhibited in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The installation at the Karuizawa New Art Museum of “A Book About Death” will include a documentary video by Brazilian artist-curator Angela Ferrara of the original NY exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(text adapted from the curator’s press materials)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see the entire issue, SUBSCRIBE<\/a> to <\/em>Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Art Museum<\/strong>
1151-5 Karuizawa
Kitasaku District, Nagano 389-0102, Japan
+81 267-46-8691<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours:
Tuesday-Sunday, 10AM-5PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAP<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a> | FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FROM KOLAJ 27 Weekend Plans at The New Art Museum in Karuizawa, Japan7 December 2019-10 January 2020 More than 50 works on canvas and paper, as well as altered objects feature in the artist\u2019s exploration of architectural dream spaces. The…<\/p>\n

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