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Mathew Hale

Biography

Born in 1962 in Swindon (UK). Lives and works in Berlin (Germany). 

He studied at the Winchester School of Art and Goldsmith College London (UK).

In Hale's works, book pages, text fragments, graphic structures, and figures in ink, as well as photographic moments of reality, are combined into new visual structures, according to the collage principle.


Found and invented things are thus combined and confront each other as different layers of reality, directly entering into a narrative structure. These new combinations inevitably challenge the beholder to read the recoded visual elements in their (new) context.

The formal juxtaposing of "real" and "imagined" elements, found and added objects in the picture, corresponds in terms of content with different systems of representation and different ways of generating meaning. Through the combination of new content in the picture, creating a narrative by way of collage, Hale questions both their historical construction as well as current ways of functioning. The open-minded discovery of themes, initiated by accidental findings of image and text fragments finally leads to the work of art through a series of associations - thus Hale's working method stands very much in the tradition of surrealism and dada. Furthermore, the works are also formally related to these art movements, as well as to pop art.

Matthew Hale's work has been exhibited in Modern Monday at MoMA (NYC) in 2011, participated to Phoenix vs Babel (cur. Patrice Joly) at Fondation d'entrepise Ricard (Paris) in 2008, the Venice Biennial in 2003, in DIE STADT - LA CITTA' - THE MOTHER at the DAAD Gallery (Berlin) in 2003, or at the Whitechapel Gallery (London) in 1998, among others.

Selected works

Untitled, Mathew Hale
Love is a silver dollar / Bright as a church bell's chime [Aug. 29, 2017], Mathew Hale
Love is a silver dollar / Bright as a church bell's chime [Apr. 26, 2016], Mathew Hale
MARIA UND JOSEPH: It becomes a morbid time, Mathew Hale
Page 115 of MIRIAM DIVORCEE, Mathew Hale
Page 70 of MIRIAM DIVORCEE, Mathew Hale
Page 52 of Mrs. GILLRAY, Mathew Hale
Page 2 of Mrs. GILLRAY, Mathew Hale
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Museum exhibitions

The Narrows, Melbourne, Australia

The Narrows, Melbourne, Australia

76 Project Space, London, UK

76 Project Space, London, UK

76 Project Space, London, UK

76 Project Space, London, UK

Fondation d'entrepise Ricard, Paris, France,

Fondation d'entrepise Ricard, Paris, France,

Fondation d'entrepise Ricard, Paris, France,

Fondation d'entrepise Ricard, Paris, France,

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MARIA UND JOSEPH: It becomes a morbid time, c, 2013

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MA THE WHALE, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2013

Mathew Hale -

MA THE WHALE, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2013

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Collages, L'espace de l'art concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France, 2012

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WACHT SCHATZ, Jan and Tina Wentrup, Berlin, Germany, 2010

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WACHT SCHATZ, Jan and Tina Wentrup, Berlin, Germany, 2010

Mathew Hale -

WACHT SCHATZ, Jan and Tina Wentrup, Berlin, Germany, 2010

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LE MONDE V. DER MOND, The Narrows, Melbourne, Australia, 2009

Mathew Hale -

LE MONDE V. DER MOND, The Narrows, Melbourne, Australia, 2009

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Past-Forward, 176 Project Space, London, UK, 2008

Mathew Hale -

Past-Forward, 176 Project Space, London, UK, 2008

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Phoenix vs Babel, Fondation d'entrepise Ricard, Paris, France, 2008

Mathew Hale -

Phoenix vs Babel, Fondation d'entrepise Ricard, Paris, France, 2008

Press

Publications

Cut in Cannes

Cut in Cannes

Publisher:

2013

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