Matthew Wong: Postcards

This fully illustrated volume collects Matthew Wong's small-scale postcard paintings made during the last year of his life in 2019, featuring his landscapes named as moments in time. Wong was a self-taught Canadian artist whose paintings evoke art historical precedents and activate nostalgia.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 52 pages
\n Publication date: 30 November 2020
\n Publisher: Karma
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This exquisite clothbound volume presents a compilation of Matthew Wong's captivating postcard paintings, showcasing his artistic prowess during the final year of his life in 2019. As Winnie Wong, a renowned art critic, writes in her specially commissioned essay for the book, "Art critics have noted that Matthew Wong's landscapes are 'uncannily familiar,' prompting viewers to delve into their own memories. However, he almost never titled them as specific places. Instead, he consistently named them as moments in time: midnight, 5:00 am, dawn, daybreak, 12:30 am, Autumn, Winter, the first snow, the gloaming, the moon rise, and more. For the postcard is a genre that purposefully evades a sense of stable locus, yet it captures the times in our lives when we sought to grasp it."

Matthew Wong, a self-taught Canadian artist, drew inspiration from a diverse range of artistic traditions, including the works of Soutine and Van Gogh, as well as abstract expressionism. His vibrant and intricate paintings depict imaginary landscapes and half-remembered interiors, possessing an uncanny ability to evoke both personal and collective nostalgia. In March 2018, Wong achieved a significant milestone by holding his first American solo exhibition at Karma, which received critical acclaim from prestigious publications such as the New York Times and the New Yorker. His remarkable artwork is now part of the prestigious collection of the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas.

\n Weight: 474g\n
Dimension: 216 x 267 x 12 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781949172508\n \n