Matthew Cox . A portrait reveals your inner side trough x-ray and stitches

It’s not easy to label a creative person as an artist, to get this official title is hard work, there are subtle distinctions between people who really deserve it and who not. Nowadays is the creation of a distinctive and strong artistic language mixed with research on experimental technical skills that transforms common people in genius to adore. Certainly not everything new is interesting, worthwhile or has desirable results, it is with no doubts difficult to determine or estimate the quality of a piece of art; and of course an artist never knows when and where the good inspiration comes from, but when it materializes, it might twist its artistic path in an unpredictable and exhilarating way.

Watching the early works of Matthew Cox one might wonders how at some point the artist technique turned to be so different from his first paintings; to a closer look everything is clear, the colors and the richness of the first characters are similar in the chromatic choice and lines of the embroidered one. I don’t know what takes an artist as Matthew to create, as it for me I need a lot of silence when I’m in a creative session, it is very easy to lose the momentum, if you don’t catch it quickly you lost it for ever. Any noise or voice or even music can distract me, even if at first I have a clear vision of every image, it takes so little to blow my mind and forgetting everything. It’s a delicate and fragile process. I really love his artistic technique, maybe because my mother is an embroiderer and it reminds me of my childhood. I love the combination of two materials so different one from the other; the embroidery is very warm and takes a slow process on the making, the x-ray is colder but makes a transparent vision of what lies underneath.

These pieces in my vision embody the artistic creation process of human beings; the artist argues: “Redefinition motivates me to create my embroidered x-rays. The stark clash of two such divergent materials, cloth and plastic, is the simple catalyst. One tactile and labor intensive, the other technical, and quickly a finished product. There’s a wide historical context, one ancient, decorative, and artisanal, the other contemporary and devoid of aesthetic intention. By simply placing one of these materials on top of the other the understood purpose of each is redefined. For me, stitching has a nurturing aspect and acts as care giving or healing to the injured, a socially feminine sort of action, while the x-ray itself can be considered masculine and unemotional“.

I found the embroidery technique very rich with hints of expressionism in the result, the x-rays reveal what the surface tends to hide. The inside and the outside worlds are connected together through stitching, Matthew proposes the skeleton as a framework for conceptual yet strong decorative shapes, he proposes bare figures as a memory of what they really are.

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