Wave (map) / Matthew Cusick

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从过去寻找现在，用印刷品代替涂料，用地图变成微妙而有力的画作。
来自艺术家Matthew Cusick精心切割制作的拼贴画。

地图在Matthew Cusick手中变得魅力无边，十分微妙细致的描绘反映出环境和空间要点。抽象的要素，艺术的表达，碎片的组合，在技巧和时间的锤炼下，地图具有了新意义。

Matthew Cusick用地图拼贴出宏大的城市场景，活灵活现的人物以及浮世绘般的海浪。这里为大家介绍他的海浪系列作品。

Kayli’s Wave, 2013
Inlaid maps, acrylic, on wood panel
42 x 63 inches

Leviathan, 2008
Inlaid maps, illustrated bible, ink on aluminum panel
41 x 62 inches,

Procella Crisium, 2013
Inlaid maps, bible engravings, sumi ink, dye on panel
18 x 27 inches

Mylan’s Wave, 2012
Inlaid maps, acrylic on panel
24 x 36 inches

Of All This World At Once, 2012
Inlaid maps, acrylic on panel
40 x 70 inches

Rachel’s Wave, 2011
Inlaid maps, acrylic on panel
30 x 42 inches

(form Matthew Cusick) A Statement About the Work.

My process involves the excavation, intervention, and reconstruction of remnants from the past. I employ printed matter as a surrogate for paint, using maps in particular to facilitate a deliberate symbolic palette and to simulate the gesture and nuance of a brushstroke. I sort and catalog my collection of maps according to their formal and contextual properties, creating an archive from which I draw upon to compose my work. Using collage as my primary medium, I meticulously cut and inlay fragments of maps and other ephemera into the picture plane.

I use maps as raw material to depict the tenuous relationship we have with our environment. As visual aides to our cognitive understanding of spatial complexity, maps also embody a textual, representational, and abstract depiction of our milieu. The pictorial façade of my work is assembled upon this linguistic and conceptual infrastructure, challenging the polarizing notions of representational and abstract art. Every mark on a map is a representation of an existence and an index of a specific time and place. By splicing together dissimilar map fragments into the matrix of an illusory image, I render hybrid topographies and timelines to integrate mythology with territory and generate new meaning from obsolete narratives.

All images Copyright Matthew Cusick 2014

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