2009
Haunch of Venison, Berlin
Hardcover
48 pages
206 x 176 mm
An important member of the Young British Artists, Mat Collishaw creates work that confronts issues of moral ambiguity with formally stunning and alluring imagery. Coupling references to art history, literature and the Victorian era with modern imaging technology, the artist renders powerful images and objects that often re-contextualise the impact of traditionally disturbing and sinister subject matter. At once poetic and morbid, his sculptures, installations and photo-based works expose elements of beauty within the darkest fantasies, blurring the lines between seduction and repulsion, observation and exploitation, reality and artifice.
[Tanya Bonakdar Gallery]
Insecticides brings together a series of Mat Collishaw's photographic works of digitally manipulated insect studies.
The book cover is first blind embossed and the foil-stamped with a clear foil to create an Insecticide motif. The cover type is gold foil-stamped with the book gold-edged and bound with a cloth spine. Each reproduction is covered with a leaf of translucent trace sheet.
Text by Nina Miall.
