Works
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acrylic on canvas, 50 × 40 cm
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black laminated plywood, mesh, eyelets and acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm
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eyelets and ropes, variable dimensions
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acrylic, metal eyelets and ropes, 56 × 53 cm
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enameled ceramics, 29 × 21.5 cm
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acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24 cm (33 x 27 cm framed)
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acrylique sur toile, 30 x 24 cm (33 x 27 cm framed)
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ink-jet print, 140 × 100 cm
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ink-jet print, 140 × 100 cm
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taped & torn newspaper pictures & paper, 60 × 50 cm
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carved wood and e-guitar. unique, variable dimensions
Exhibitions
Portrait
What is contemporary and progressive, what is surprising, what moves at the pulse of time and yet maintains a connection to the past – that is modern; that is the program of the Portuguese artist Francisco da Mata.
With his humorous way of looking at life, Francisco da Mata shows in his oeuvre sublime levels of reality and illusion of our contemporary society – an artistic position that claims to deal with the contemporary attitude to life in order to simultaneously metaphorically exaggerate it.
The artist reflects on his environment, recontextualizes our culture and in doing so reveals unusual and exciting connections. Reinterpreting the present for discussion, Mata reinterprets fragments of situations, creates metaphorical icons that enable suggestive imagination and individual interpretation. But no narrative strand, no narrative structure, provides the viewer with information about what is depicted and its content…
Francisco da Mata (*1968 in Portugal) lives and works in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. His oeuvre is represented throughout Switzerland and internationally in important collections such as Credit Suisse and the Europäisches
Biography
Lives and works in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and Berlin, Germany
Selected Solo Shows
"Utopia and small satisfactions" (with Nuria Fuster), Lage Egal, Berlin, Germany
"Something like siberia", Transformers, Brussels, Belgium
"Cotillons et pacatille", Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France
"Battle: V. Rizzo versus F. da Mata", Galerie Arnaud Deschin, Marseille, France
"Battle 2: F. da Mata versus V. Rizzo", Galerie Arnaud Deschin, Marseille, France
"Trompe ton monde/WE suisse", Le Cercle Suisse, Besançon, France
