The Spoilt at War
The Spoilt at War
The Spoilt at War
The Spoilt at War

Matt Copson

The Spoilt at War, 2017Sign in to view price
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hand drawn animation with sound. 6 minutes 44 seconds (looped)High Art
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This surreal image depicts a giant, whimsical bird-like creature soaring over a dimly lit cityscape. The artwork features a striking monochromatic color scheme, with the creature's skeletal body and exaggerated features contrasting against the shadowy urban landscape below. The bold, graphic style and the juxtaposition of the fantastical creature with the urban setting create a thought-provoking commentary on the relationship between nature and the built environment. The artist's intention seems to be to challenge the viewer's perception of scale and the boundaries between the real and the imagined. ...

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Matt Copson
Artist
Matt Copson
B.1992, British

Matt Copson creates cartoonish, hand-drawn and digitally rendered laser projections that are cynical by nature, literally illuminating the absurdity of the human condition and, more specifically, the ineffability and impossibility of purpose, the futile pursuit of ambition, and trends of self-improvement and maximising ‘personal growth’. The artist’s spectral projections bathe their exhibition sites in vivid neon light that is synthetic, disconcerting and dystopian, but also soothing and entrancing. Copson foregrounds, critiques and even empathises with the contradictions personified by the human, and the willing absorption within and adoration of entertainment, mass media and nostalgia. Ultimately, Copson resolves his audience to the fact that these contradictions are unavoidable and intrinsic to life. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Matt Copson: Artworks
High Art
Gallery
High Art
Paris, Arles

High Art was born in 2013 from an interest in bringing together distinct perspectives in advanced practices that are significant to current paradigms in contemporary art. Since its inception, High Art has functioned to provide an economic and logistic framework for artists by reexamining established modes of art commerce and production while attempting to account for an expanding field of art. The gallery has fostered not only the emergence of artists (Olga Balema, Max Hooper Schneider, Julien Creuzet, Matt Copson, Lucy Bull, Hun Kyu Kim, Mélanie Matranga) but also the emergence of new networks and economies (Paris Internationale, Shanaynay). In May of 2017, High Art inaugurated a new space in the heart of the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The space, which is located on the ground floor of an 19th century Haussmannian building, is notable for housing Georges Bizet while he wrote the opera “Carmen”. In December of 2020, High Art opened a second location in a 12th century chapel in the heart of Arles, France. ...