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Redux Contemporary Art Center is proud to present painters Matt Phillips and Josef Kristofoletti for the exhibition The Sun Machine is Coming Down. The artists, who met during graduate school at Boston University in 2005-07, employ a graphic style of painting where the formal qualities of pattern, color and space converge into accessible and humanistic works, offering layers of meaning both visually and conceptually. Object and illusion are at the core of each artist's respective interest, as they each synthesize information into a graphic language that flattens space and expands time.
Matt Phillips’ paintings can be upwards of 18' in length and will fill the interior of Redux, while Josef Kristofoletti will be present at Redux for three weeks prior to the opening, creating a new painting directly on the walls of Redux. This large-scale temporary painting will address the concept of visualizing the invisible, as Josef creates new work referencing the CERN Accelerator, the world's largest particle physics laboratory for nuclear research.
At the closing of the exhibition, Redux will launch a special edition catalog featuring interviews, articles and conversations with each artist, full color images of work featured in The Sun Machine is Coming Down, and other rare selections by the artists and curator. A limited number of the catalogs will be signed by each artist and will contain a special DVD featuring a time-lapse video of Josef Kristofolletti's new painting at Redux. The catalog will be available to the public during a special catalog release event during the last day of the exhibition, Saturday December 13th from 12-5pm.
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See a time lapse video using a still camera of a mural Josef painted for the Boston University fitness facility. It is right next to a runnning track.
SNEAKER MOUNTAIN from josef Kristofoletti on Vimeo.
This next video is Kristofoletti's latest addition in the Rural Mural series was painted in Southbridge, MA for Sevengaits Project Space.
HOLIDAY from josef Kristofoletti on Vimeo.
This short represents a collaborative project headed by Josef Kristofoletti and Matt Phillips. The two artists, attempting to seek flight, made a series of kites from woodblock prints on rice paper. For the finale, several dozen people and a lone accordion player assembled in an unknown park somewhere in Boston where they flew the kites until dusk.
The kite Project from Seth Gadsden on Vimeo.