- Matt McClune
Cold as Ice
Renata Fabbri is pleased to announce the exhibition Cold as Ice by Matt McClune (Worcester, Massachusetts – 1973), the artist’s first solo show at the gallery.
This American artist, who has been living in France for some years now, presents a series of new paintings conceived specifically for the gallery.
Matt McClune’s characteristic style is expressed through the use of metal surfaces as a base for varying painting modalities, poised between figurative and abstract art, distinguished by a color scheme made up of rarefied light and atmospheres, often inspired by the changing seasons in the French countryside, in Burgundy, where he lives and works.
Cold as Ice is about the winter. The works on display stand out for their cold colors, like blue, white, and silver. They light up the gallery space and accompany the viewer towards an enchanting, unique, rarefied, and evocative atmosphere.
The artist narrates that in winter the vineyards in Burgundy blanketed in thick fog transform the setting, which inevitably becomes quite gloomy; and yet, by looking beyond the grayness, one comes across a cold and fascinating light.
This is a seemingly asceptic, emotionless light, just as coldness appears, though it finds expressivity and purity in this dimension.
In his Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant outlines a parallel between beauty and the sublime. While the former is perceived through the senses and the intellect, the latter is perceived by the soul. And it is precisely the soul that is stimulated by his art. Matt McClune is able to render greatly evocative paintings where one finds “he who looks,” that is, a kind of looking immortalized in its relationship with the place, the place of our soul.
Renata Fabbri is pleased to announce the exhibition Cold as Ice by Matt McClune (Worcester, Massachusetts – 1973), the artist’s first solo show at the gallery.
This American artist, who has been living in France for some years now, presents a series of new paintings conceived specifically for the gallery.
Matt McClune’s characteristic style is expressed through the use of metal surfaces as a base for varying painting modalities, poised between figurative and abstract art, distinguished by a color scheme made up of rarefied light and atmospheres, often inspired by the changing seasons in the French countryside, in Burgundy, where he lives and works.
Cold as Ice is about the winter. The works on display stand out for their cold colors, like blue, white, and silver. They light up the gallery space and accompany the viewer towards an enchanting, unique, rarefied, and evocative atmosphere.
The artist narrates that in winter the vineyards in Burgundy blanketed in thick fog transform the setting, which inevitably becomes quite gloomy; and yet, by looking beyond the grayness, one comes across a cold and fascinating light.
This is a seemingly asceptic, emotionless light, just as coldness appears, though it finds expressivity and purity in this dimension.
In his Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant outlines a parallel between beauty and the sublime. While the former is perceived through the senses and the intellect, the latter is perceived by the soul. And it is precisely the soul that is stimulated by his art. Matt McClune is able to render greatly evocative paintings where one finds “he who looks,” that is, a kind of looking immortalized in its relationship with the place, the place of our soul.
- Matt McClune, Kremer White and Green Composition, 2005 – 2013Pigment and acrylic/polyurethane on aluminium panel, 125x63 cm
- Matt McClune, Large Metallic over Blue, 2015Pigment and acrylic on aluminium panel, 150x105 cm
- Matt McClune, Untitled White Composition (Burgundy Light), 2015Pigment and acrylic on dibond, 225x150 cm
- Matt McClune, Large White over Violet and Black, 2015Pigment and acrylic on aluminium panel, 220x150 cm
- Matt McClune, Pale violet painting (metallic pigments), 2015Pigment and acrylic/polyurethane on aluminium panel, 72x62 cm
- Matt McClune, Pearlescent Blue over Gold, 2015Pigment and acrylic/polyurethane on aluminium panel, 96,5x60 cm
- Matt McClune, Small study 2015 (Metallic Pigment/Blue), 2015Pigment and acrylic/polyurethane on aluminium panel, 44x32,5 cm
- Matt McClune, Small study 2015 (Metallic Pigment/Red), 2015Pigment and acrylic/polyurethane on aluminium panel, 44x32,5 cm
- Matt McClune, Untitled For Milan, 2015Pigment and acrylic/polyurethane on aluminium panel, 80x60 cm
- Matt McClune, White over Silver Blue, 2015Pigment and acrylic/polyurethane on aluminium panel, 60x45 cm
- Matt McClune, Venetian Black Horizontal, 2015Pigment and acrylic/polyurethane on aluminium panel, 75x200 cm
- Matt McClune, Untitled 2 – Panel Horizontal Painting (after Milan with Lukas), 2010-2011Pigment and oil on dibond, 200x300 cm

- Sophie Ko

- Gizela Mickiewicz,
- Alessandro Teoldi

Renata Fabbri is delighted to announce that the artist has been chosen to create a project for the Croatian pavilion at the Sixtieth Venice Biennale, to take place April 20 to November 24, 2024.

- Vlatka Horvat
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Opening Sept 14
Until 12/11/2023
Curated by Kristina Bonjeković Stojković

- Vlatka Horvat,
- Tim Etchells,
- Sophie Ko
Artissima
2nd – 5th November 2023
Oval | Torino
Main Section
Hall Orange | Booth 12

- Giovanni Kronenberg
Curated by Vincenzo de Bellis and Alessandro Rabottini