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Matthew Brannon, Switching Positions
 
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TITLE:  Switching Positions
ARTIST:  Matthew Brannon
WORK DATE:  2006
PERIOD:  21st century
CATEGORY:  Installations
MATERIALS:  Matte black vinyl foil or enamel
SIZE:  Dimensions variable
REGION:  American
STYLE:  Contemporary
PRICE:  Not for Sale
GALLERY:  Saatchi Gallery  +44 (0)20 7811 3070  Send Email
DESCRIPTION:  Matthew Brannon’s Switching Positions is executed as a wall mural. Showing an entanglement of knives, Brannon conceives not a logo of violence, but apathy. Rendered in black and dripping ‘blood’, Brannon’s blades are diminished to the international language of pictograph signposting, exuding an outline of ‘idea’ rather than a portent of immediate threat. Through this reduction, Brannon presents content as void: his weapons are represented by a blank vacancy, precariously balanced in harmonious composition. Emblazoned in grand scale, Switching Positions presents an unnerving propaganda of disconsolation and hopelessness.

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ONLINE CATALOGUE(S):  Saatchi Gallery Collection
 


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