MATISSE FAN CLUB

BLACKARTPROJECTS & DAVID BOOTH PRESENT

M ATISSE FAN CLUB

B L A C K

MATISSE FAN CLUB Batman Royale 14 Gaffney Street Coburg, Melbourne, Australia 7 - 16 October, 2016

MATISSE FAN CLUB In 2015 I took a private pilgrimage to the south of France to visit the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence, a building in which every detail and decoration was designed by Henry Matisse. This is why it is more widely known as Matisse’s Chapel.

Upon completion in 1951 Matisse stated that ‘this work required me four years of an exclusive and entiring effort and it is the fruit of my whole working life. In spite of all its imperfections I consider it as my masterpiece.’

I have built a meditation monument in memory of my time within his greatest and final work. It is, in part, an ode to the wonder inside this special place, but moreover it uses this chapel as an outlet for me to not only look at but be within my work, my own language.

And really, who isn’t part of the Matisse fan club?

David Booth Melbourne 2016

Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence + spiral like smoke (2016) watercolour and pencil on paper 57 x 57 cm

Henri and Pablo ride horses, relieved of their burdens (2016) watercolour and pencil on paper 71 x 42 cm

The room in my mind where I keep my matisses (2016) watercolour and pencil on paper 72 x 37 cm

Matisse monument (2016) watercolour and pencil on paper 76 x 76 cm

Tree of life - bright whisper windows (2016) watercolour and pencil on paper 64 x 46 cm

Palm fronds - bright whisper windows (2016) watercolour and pencil on paper 64 x 46 cm

View over Vence (2016) watercolour and pencil on paper 71 x 71 cm

Matisse floating monument (2016) watercolour and pencil on paper 85 x 66 cm

Annelies Nelck (2016) watercolour and pencil on paper 23 x 25 cm

Matisse, Vence spaceship (2016) watercolour and pencil on paper 65 x 84 cm

The snail (meditator) (2016) watercolour and pencil on paper 30 x 22 cm

Memory of Oceania (meditator) (2016) watercolour and pencil on paper 30 x 22 cm

Matisse shrine objects I (2016) synthetic polymer and lacquer on pine dimensions variable (54 x 51 cm as illustrated)

Matisse shrine objects II (2016) synthetic polymer and lacquer on pine dimensions variable (48 x 38 cm as illustrated)

Matisse shrine objects III (2016) synthetic polymer and lacquer on pine dimensions variable (36 x 38 cm as illustrated)

Matisse shrine objects IV (2016) synthetic polymer and lacquer on pine dimensions variable (46 x 42 cm as illustrated)

Matisse shrine objects III (2016) synthetic polymer and lacquer on pine dimensions variable (28 x 50 cm as illustrated)

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