Matthew Hansel : me, my shadow and all of our friends

The paintings of Matt Hansel traverse a liminal terrain located between the morbidly beautiful and the gruesomely delightful. Employing a menagerie of art historical tropes ranging from 16th Century European painting to American modernism, Hansel meticulously constructs surreal tableaus that contort the very logics of dreamscape. Working through compositional strategies rooted in religious iconography, Flemish still life and vanitas painting, Hansel obfuscates the distinction between past and present as a means to reinterpret the visual cacophony of our fleeting contemporary moment. (bron: website uitgever)