Matthew Hindley at iArt

Don’t miss out on An Everlasting Once, a major solo exhibition of new paintings by Matthew Hindley at the iArt Gallery in Cape Town.

For the past year Hindley has been in the studio, developing a body of primarily large-scale paintings on Belgian linen. These works are the most ambitious and accomplished of his career to date.

In An Everlasting Once, the artist continues his ongoing meditation on the studio as testing ground for a potential creative utopia or, on the other hand, the breakdown of such ideals. Subject matter for the paintings is gathered via a series of shoots, for which Hindley directs scenes much like in the theatre, creating tableaus of people, animals and props.

The defining moment

The title of the exhibition refers to Hindley’s desire to capture what Cartier-Bresson has described as the ‘defining moment’, a moment frozen in time and ‘a metaphysical tableau capable of expressing the artist’s deepest and most enduring preoccupations’ (Pollack, 2011).  

Lloyd Pollack, in his recent essay on the exhibition has suggested that Hindley’s work “is not just a return to figuration, it is something far deeper and more profound, a new concept of painting as a synthesis of photography, cinema, theatre and performance deployed in discontinuous and fragmented narratives.”

Matthew Hindley was born in Cape Town in 1974. He graduated at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town in 2002.

Dates: 23 February – 23 March 2011

iArt Gallery: +27 (0) 21 424 5150, info@iart.co.za, www.iart.co.za