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letter from paris : : matthew rose

The Sea in October, 2003 © Matthew Rose
tenderly absurd: matthew rose shows again
Letter from Paris writer Matthew Rose writes and stars in his own handmade "books," carving stories out of found materials, paint, paper, glue and ideas -- turning the irrational into a personal hero myth that is tenderly absurd. Books, words and stories will all be on view at Art Vitam ( www.artvitam.com) in the Wynwood Art District in Miami. Claire Jeanine Satin, Michael Baigneaux, Mary Bennett will also exhibit a range of book works.
Rose's hand-painted and collage volumes like BOYS LIFE, 2004, examine loneliness and terror. His slender volume GOD, 2003, points to rulers and measuring devices. The Sea in October, 2003, an unbound book, combines visual wordplay, cut texts, and at times objects that opens the page up to new meanings. "How to forge an image?" he inquires of all students of knowledge in one of those collages, A Warning To Beginners, 2003: Queen Elizabeth stands royally beneath a detached hand holding a metal rod heating up on a Bunsen burner. Is fishing really fishing? he asks in The Sea in October, 2003. Can meaning be dug out of the Earth -- TOMORROW, 2003 -- with a yellow ceramic bunny? Rose writes by organizing collage elements and words cut from old grammar books in a way that, to him, civilization is built, layer upon layer until what we take as conscious is actually context. His "stories" mix surrealism and nostalgia in an exhaustive effort to rhyme fragments together. The results mimic contemporary consciousness. These are poetry books for those who need more than words and more than pictures.
The artist cites the late American artist Ray Johnson, whom he calls both a friend and teacher, as one of his main influences. Some of Rose's text works in pencil (Withdrawing drawing, 2004), and needlepoints (Communism and Murder, both 2003, and both produced by the artist's mother), as well as found sculpture will also be on show.

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