Le grenier de Leopold von Sacher-Masoch II, 2005

"What I like about Charles Matton is the obsessive familiarity he maintains with objects, a feeling of obviousness that is more than an esthetic feeling and which is more akin to exorcism and magic. Making objects emerge is more important than making them mean something." Jean Baudrillard

"Making objects emerge is more important than making them mean something" wrote Jean Baudrillard in 1987, in the preface to the Matton exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. He was referring to Matton's early 'boxes', which were thorough observations of reality, extremely detailed inventories in which objects, as they 'emerged', had to be faithful reflexions of reality. These included L'atelier de Francis Bacon (Bacon's studio), various sculptors' studios, La chambre d'une femme désordre (untidy woman's bedroom), Paul Bowles' bedroom in Tangiers, or Le grenier de Leopold von Sacher Masoch (von Sacher-Masoch's attic).

Challenging appearances and recording that which seems in order to gain a better understanding of it have both been important features of Charles Matton's artwork since his early paintings. This is true of all the media he uses : painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film or video.

Film schedule : The MEP will be screening a number of films on Charles Matton.

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