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Matthew Picton - Fictional Perspectives

Matthew Picton's recent paper sculptures continue, and expand upon, Picton's fascination with the mapped framework of the urban form. Using a variety of visual languages, including film, music, literature and art, he creates ambiguous and fictionalized narratives, deliberately blurring the boundaries of cartography, fantasy and perception...

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Moscow 1812 - 2012, burnt archival paper, archival inks, music score of Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture, quote from Tolstoy's "War and Peace 42" x 42" framed

St Petersburg 1703 - 1963, 2013. Texts from "The Bronze Horseman" by Pushkin, "Poem without a Hero" By Anna Akhmatova and "A guide to a renamed city" By Joseph Brodsky music score from Shostakovich's 9th . Map of the great flood of St Petersburg in 1824, stained in accordance with the flood marks. 49 x 69 inches, framed

Lower Manhattan, Smoke 2011 - Created from headlines about the bombing of the World Trade Center, video covers of the film 'Towering Inferno:" book covers of the novel "The Plot Against America" by Phillip Roth. Smoked and burnt in the location of the former WTC, 48 x 70 inches, framed.

Upcoming Exhibitions & Events:

Jul 16 - Aug 31 Lisa Bartleson

Sep 1 - Sep 30 Gregg Renfrow

Oct 1 - Oct 31 Monica Lundy

Nov 1 - Dec 14 Nathaniel Price

Dec 15 - Jan 30 Maria Park

About Toomey Tourell Fine Art

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