American of British origin Matthew Ritchie (Matthew Ritchie, p. 1964) is one of the most ambitious artists of our time. His art - a hybrid, where the overlap and interaction of different genres: the image "flows" in the sculpture, which can lead as architectural structures, as well as musical instruments, painting finds its continuation in a large-scale installations, projects are developed as in the real world (museum and gallery-exposure) and the virtual. In 2001, less than ten years after his first personal exhibition Richie, Time magazine included him in a list of 100 innovators of the new millennium as a researcher "that it is impossible to imagine, and that no one can not imagine trying to».

Theme Richie - the flow of information going through the consciousness of modern man. "We always treat a lot of information on everything you only can: your driver's license from movie stars to the poison in drinking water by reading a number of New York Times, we learn more than the average intellectual of the Middle Ages in his life. Information became a currency. It is also necessary for us, like water or air, and it also controls our lives. Edit all - read it as the day a whole library, so we need a point of view, personal model of the Universe, that helps sort the information and give it some meaning. We must recognize itself as a small ecosystem of information. The basis of creativity Richie is the idea of coexisting, closely interwoven with each other complexes of knowledge, which provide ways to interpret the man around the world and himself. In his works we find a subtle reference to mythology, religion, alchemy, physics, linguistics, biology, architecture, cinema, gambling ... The author appears before the audience as a scholar and lexicographer, who, on the one hand, trying to organize all knowledge of the world and create a comprehensive description of the Universe, on the other - indicates the impossibility of this project and reminded the audience about the incredible complexity, "bottomless" of this world.

• Matthew Ritchie
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Matthew Ritchie studied art in London, after graduating from college he spent several years did not create works , but only "thinking, thinking, thinking." Arriving in the late 1980's in New York, he found a job house-manager. In his spare time Richie devoured books, chosen from the nearby New York University - that's where their knowledge of medieval history, philosophy, science, etc. In the end, he has compiled a list of "everything that interests me, which became the basis for he elaborated a system of organizing information about the universe. It featured 49 characters, each of which represents a specific set of elements or characteristics of the material world (human traits, regions of the brain, alchemic properties, continents, etc.) and can function in seven different ways, depending on the context. In the second half of 1990 - early 2000's Richie designed with these characters, complex stories that explain the nature of the information, the laws of thermodynamics, etc. The viewer is given the role of participant in the process, he could not just "guess" puzzling paintings and installations, but also investigate the sites created by the artist and participate in a card game invented by them.

• MATT Richie
  first day. 2008. Fragment
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visual language Richie combines both figurative and abstract, the artist says artificiality of the borders between the two concepts. Abstract forms can serve him as allusions to the organic world, references to art history, charts his narrative ... each element of the artist is multifaceted, each playing multiple roles. It is worth noting that the artist's creations come amazingly beautiful: take at least installation "Day One" was screened in 2008 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco. Dynamic line of wall murals form a circle, "screens", they are projected onto video landscapes that are transformed into atmospheric species, images of the microworld or abstraction. Is devoted to - neither more nor less - the birth of the universe. This is a very important topic for Richie, as reflected, inter alia, the project The Long Count, inspired, among other things, the legend of the divine twins of the epic Mayan "Popol Vuh". The product is nothing but a decorated Richie concert, which included two pairs of twins from the world of indie music - Aaron and Bryce Dessner (Aaron & Bryce Dessner) from The National Party and Kim and Kelley Deal (Kim & Kelley Deal) from The Breeders.

• MATT Richie
  The Morning Line. 2008
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latest installation Ritchie - The Morning Line - is a pavilion made of aluminum modules , differing only in size. "[It] consists of a truncated tetrahedron ... It may be called quantum building, because on the surface of each tetrahedron can be placed even 22 tetrahedron smaller. Installation can grow as a crystal ... "This is a fantastic structure, which is now exhibited at Eminonu Square in Istanbul, was created in collaboration with architects Aranda Lasch and design company Arup. Richie calls his creation a giant musical instrument: researchers from the University of York, hidden in it 54 speakers, which transmit a specially recorded for the project composition. Norwegian artist Jan Winder (Jana Winderen), for example, has provided the pavilion sounds of ocean, according to one critic, has transformed the structure of its intervention in the underwater cave. Another participant, composer Peter Zinoveff (Peter Zinovieff), presented the soundtrack, based on Turkish folk melodies. And speaking at the opening of Lee Ranaldo (Lee Ranaldo), «forced pavilion sing, or rather to roar, beating him with their guitars. The musician has included in its performance record screams muezzins nearby mosque, which he lost, holding the strings of your iPhone.

The Morning Line will be on display in Istanbul until 19 September.

material prepared Yulia Maximova, AI

Source: andrearosengallery.com , artlink.org , art21.org , thewire.co.uk , artinvestment.ru