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Matecki gives new life to reproductions from exhibition catalogs and art magazines, transforming them into puzzling, witty miniature oil paintings, with a format not exceeding a frame of a 20×20 cm square.
A series of acrylic paintings is an effect of a well-structured routine—an automated process of covering the canvas with paint using a palette knife. Dimensions of the canvas, the colors used and juxtaposed and finally also the size of the motif, all differ. Matecki is referencing classic forms of abstract painting but at the same time still looking for a radical and impersonal quality of the contemporary painterly image.
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The starting point for the collaborative work of two painters is Matecki’s uninhibited travesty of Eugene Delacroix’s Massacre at Chios.