Matthew Krishanu’s paintings explore topics including childhood,
race, religion, art history, family, grief and love. His subjects
– frequently Brown people, especially children – are realised
with a shallow pictorial depth, delicate washes of colour, and with
a sense of interior life. Through this, Krishanu questions the
positions of his painterly subjects and depictions of landscapes in
relation to the legacy of European colonialism and the art
historical canon. Krishanu’s practice is heavily informed by his
early childhood spent in Dhaka where his parents moved in order to
work for the Church of Bangladesh. This, his first trade monograph,
presents a number of series of Krishanu’s works: Another Country,
Expatriates, Mission, House of God, Religious Workers and In
Sickness and In Health. The paintings included have been made in
oil and/or acrylic on canvas, linen or board, with the earliest
produced in 2007 and most recent completed in 2022. The publication
features essays by Mark Rappolt and Dorothy Price, alongside an
interview with the artist by Ben Luke. Rappolt, Editor-in-Chief at
ArtReview magazine, details the various worlds present within
Krishanu’s paintings. He draws out key themes within Krishanu’s
oeuvre such as power, religion, identity and memory, while
highlighting its distance from didacticism, and at times, its
carefully constructed ambivalence, through examination of key works
such as Mission School (2017), Mountain Tent (Two Boys) (2020) and
Playground (2020). Price, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art
and Visual Culture at The Courtauld, writes sensitively about
solitude, memory and emotion which are palpable within Krishanu’s
work. In particular, the series In Sickness and In Health, which
traces a life path of Uschi Gatward, the artist’s late wife, over
sixteen years to her untimely death from cancer in late 2021. The
series is foregrounded as a significant and intimate body of work
that subtly shifts over the time period it depicts. In a new
interview with Luke, a critic and editor at The Art Newspaper,
Krishanu discusses his practice in relation to ideas of religion,
race, global art history, photography, health and personal
experiences. Krishanu’s work explores, in the artist’s own
words, ‘the puzzle of painting’. The publication has been
edited by Georgia Griffiths and Matt Price. It has been designed by
Joe Gilmore, printed and bound by EBS, Verona, and produced by
Anomie Publishing and Niru Ratnam, London. The publication has been
supported by Guy Halamish; Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai; Niru
Ratnam, London; Taimur Hassan; and Tanya Leighton, Berlin and Los
Angeles. Matthew Krishanu (b.1980) was born in Bradford and is
based in London. He completed an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint
Martins in 2009. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Playground’,
Niru Ratnam (2022), ‘Undercurrents’, LGDR, New York (2022),
‘Picture Plane’, Niru Ratnam, London (2020), ‘Arrow and
Pulpit’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2021), ‘Corvus’, Iniva,
London (2019), ‘House of Crows’, Matt’s Gallery, London
(2019), ‘A Murder of Crows’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2019),
‘The Sun Never Sets’, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, (2019)
and ‘The Sun Never Sets’, Huddersfield Art Gallery,
Huddersfield (2018). He has recently been in the group exhibitions
‘The Kingfisher’s Wing’, GRIMM, New York (2022),
‘Prophecy’, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre (2022), ‘Mixing
It Up: Painting Today’, Hayward Gallery, London (2021),
‘Coventry Biennial’, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum,
Leamington Spa and Herbert Art Gallery & Museum (2021), ‘John
Moores Painting Prize’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2021),
‘Everyday Heroes’, Hayward Gallery/Southbank Centre (2020) and
‘A Rich Tapestry’, Lahore Biennale (2020).
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