Matthew Hansel's practice playfully assembles varying artistic traditions and tonal registers to create uncanny, luscious, and immersive experiences. The artist overlays classical imagery with surreal elements mined from popular culture, art history and our collective unconscious. Using a mixture of humour and pathos, Hansel creates post-modern images that reflect on the history of art while exploring the flattening of artistic hierarchies in an age where technology has made imagery ubiquitous.
‘Those Who Never Set Their Table Never Dine Alone’ is part of a new body of works created by the artist juxtaposing the painterly intricacy of traditional Dutch Masters with the glamorous imagery of 1970s glossy magazines. A wild, surreal feast teetering between lucid dream and Bacchanalia, the work constructs a dazzling landscape populated with an abundance of unsettling and fantastic elements. The culture-crashing hybrid stands as a testament to the artist’s virtuosic skills and uncanny ability to arouse the viewer’s senses and imagination.
View Matthew Hansel's bio
‘Those Who Never Set Their Table Never Dine Alone’ is part of a new body of works created by the artist juxtaposing the painterly intricacy of traditional Dutch Masters with the glamorous imagery of 1970s glossy magazines. A wild, surreal feast teetering between lucid dream and Bacchanalia, the work constructs a dazzling landscape populated with an abundance of unsettling and fantastic elements. The culture-crashing hybrid stands as a testament to the artist’s virtuosic skills and uncanny ability to arouse the viewer’s senses and imagination.
View Matthew Hansel's bio