Matthew Carver is a Canadian artist, currently living in Berlin and was previously in London where he received his M.A. Fine Art with Distinction from The Chelsea College of Art. Much of the work for his shows at TAKSU Singapore and TAKSU KL is comprised of paintings completed during his tenure at TARP. His works reveal his fascination with the illusory spaces of modern cities as well as light, movement, and speed. Carver is the recipient of awards such as "The Canadian Emerging Artist Prize" and has been collected by institutions such as "The Saatchi Collection" in London, England.

 

"Matthew Carver explores the illusion of space within painting in order to investigate how representations of urbanism can be mapped onto experience. Working with fragments of the city, such as Tokyo street intersections where advertising lights and traffic are at extreme levels of density, he creates both large-scale paintings and anamorphic constructions that stretch time through space. Utilizing the grammar of digital technology with all its blips, blurs and manipulations, Carver's constructions of space literally mirror the impossibilities of perceiving contemporary city spaces in a single-shot view. In the metropolitan junctions that he represents dynamism and speed predominate, reminiscent of the Futurist's progress-fuelled desire. By extending the illusory pictorial space of the flat plane of painting, this work collapses spatial and temporary qualities." (Lisa Le Feuvre for the publication, Gutter Dreams by The Chelsea College of Art)