For immediate release:
February 24, 2008
Contact: Hamlett Dobbins, 901.219.1943, hamlettdobbins@hotmail.com
Material is pleased to present its third exhibition of 2008: Hans Schmitt-Matzen: The Lace of History. The exhibition will run for one night only with a reception on Friday, February 29th from 6-8 pm.
A Nashville based artist, Hans Schmitt-Matzen has displayed his work in group exhibitions throughout the country and will be included in the upcoming Tennessee Abstract Painters show at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art.
The Lace of History will present a cross section of two related series of artworks. Several of the works will be from the Loop series, a collaboration with photographer Gieves Anderson. The works in the Loop series comprise a two-part cycle. In the first part, one of Anderson’s photographs is selected to conceptually and formally influence the path of Schmitt-Matzen’s painting. The combination of these photographic and painted elements amounts to a finished work that is the first part of the sequence. After the completion of the first phase, Anderson begins the second stage by converting the first piece back into a photograph. The resulting photograph then stimulates another painting that becomes the second phase and establishes a cycle of cause-and-effect relationships within and between the works. This closed system metaphorically reenacts art’s history—in which all that is made is influenced by what preceded it.
February 24, 2008
Contact: Hamlett Dobbins, 901.219.1943, hamlettdobbins@hotmail.com
Material is pleased to present its third exhibition of 2008: Hans Schmitt-Matzen: The Lace of History. The exhibition will run for one night only with a reception on Friday, February 29th from 6-8 pm.
A Nashville based artist, Hans Schmitt-Matzen has displayed his work in group exhibitions throughout the country and will be included in the upcoming Tennessee Abstract Painters show at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art.
The Lace of History will present a cross section of two related series of artworks. Several of the works will be from the Loop series, a collaboration with photographer Gieves Anderson. The works in the Loop series comprise a two-part cycle. In the first part, one of Anderson’s photographs is selected to conceptually and formally influence the path of Schmitt-Matzen’s painting. The combination of these photographic and painted elements amounts to a finished work that is the first part of the sequence. After the completion of the first phase, Anderson begins the second stage by converting the first piece back into a photograph. The resulting photograph then stimulates another painting that becomes the second phase and establishes a cycle of cause-and-effect relationships within and between the works. This closed system metaphorically reenacts art’s history—in which all that is made is influenced by what preceded it.
Schmitt-Matzen will also show his personal investigation of other aesthetic paths that Anderson’s photographs might have traveled in his Tangent series. With this project, Hans has sought to engender a web of causality more complex than the linear relationships recognizable in the Loop series. These works allow each cause to have more than one effect, broadening the scope of the overall artistic system to bring it in sync with the complexity that exists in the world.
Hans received his BFA from Middle Tennessee State University in 2003 and has subsequently become an active constituent in the Nashville arts community. He is on the board of directors for the Fugitive Art Center, a nonprofit curatorial organization exhibiting artworks nationally and internationally. Hans is currently employed at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts as an exhibition designer.
Material is located at 2553 Broad Avenue. Parking is available on both the north and south sides of Broad Avenue.
Jpg information: “Schmitt_Matzen.jpg” is Hans Schmitt-Matzen’s Tangent VIII. Oil and alkyd on canvas, 28" x 48", 2006
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