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Poking one's head inside one of Matton's enclosures is being Gulliver trespassing into another reality and expecting the room's lilliputian occupants to return any moment.
Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011
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A retrospective of handmade miniature interiors by the Parisian artist Charles Matton is on exhibit in London's All Visual Arts gallery.
Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011
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Replicating the world exactly had been Matton's passions, and his artistic journey began with painting hyperreal interiors that he eventually extrapolated into three-dimensions, creating rooms with walls exactly as he would have painted them on canvas, drawing cracks on the patina, filtering sun and shade on the furniture, miniaturizing the effects of light itself.
Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011
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A retrospective of handmade miniature interiors by the Parisian artist Charles Matton is on exhibit in London's All Visual Arts gallery.
Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011
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Jean Baudrillard, who was a close friend of the artist for twenty-five years, described Matton's worlds, when they are condensed in a marvelously small space, one rediscovers their quintessence.
Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011
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Matton's boîtes are not just an arrangement of artefacts but encapsulate the memory of a fleeting moment.
Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011
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Delighting in his obsessiveness, Baurdrillard concluded that Matton, was "quite certainly a fetishist."
Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011
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Replicating the world exactly had been Matton's passions, and his artistic journey began with painting hyperreal interiors that he eventually extrapolated into three-dimensions, creating rooms with walls exactly as he would have painted them on canvas, drawing cracks on the patina, filtering sun and shade on the furniture, miniaturizing the effects of light itself.
Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011
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Matton's boîtes are not just an arrangement of artefacts but encapsulate the memory of a fleeting moment.
Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011
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Delighting in his obsessiveness, Baurdrillard concluded that Matton, was "quite certainly a fetishist."
Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011
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