Immaculate Perception

Surrealism, asserted André Breton, was above all "a revolutionary movement."  And that movement, both visual and literary, was largely identified with the dream. Shock, non-sequitur, unlikely but often gorgeous juxtapositions were the signature elements of surrealist works. These ideas come to term in Immaculate Perception by Matthew Rose. Beautifully printed by Mariela Cadiz in Paris, the work is a lullaby in the surrealist cannon: A young girl in a bob cut dreams in a dream of a lemon tree.  She is the revolution, says the artist.

Immaculate Perception measures 80 cm by 60 cm and is printed on fine art paper in a limited edition of 50 signed, dated and numbered prints.  Immaculate Perception sells for 164,05€ unframed.

• Limited edition of 50
• Signed, numbered and dated (2009).
• High quality giclee print
• Acid-free fine art paper
• 80 cm by 60 cm (31½ by 23¾ in)

See or purchase Immaculate Perception here.

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PAPER YOUR WORLD - AFFICHES - POSTERS : FREE

Did we say these posters were FREE?  Well they are.  Free.  Download any or all of these Matthew Rose exhibition posters – high resolution PDFs that can be scaled up large.  Print at home or at your office.  Make wall paper, make a dress, make a book, or wrapping paper, put them on a lonely wall, or make paper airplanes out of them, or if you have a tweety pie at home, line that bird cage in surreal decor with the surreal McCoy.  And hey!  They are FREE, so pass this along...

GO TO THE MATTHEW ROSE AFFICHE & POSTER PAGE.  CLICK on any image to download.

Immaculate Perception

Immaculate Perception.

Surrealism, asserted André Breton, was above all "a revolutionary movement."  And that movement, both visual and literary, was largely identified with the dream. Shock, non-sequitur, unlikely but often gorgeous juxtapositions were the signature elements of surrealist works.

These ideas come to term in Immaculate Perception by Matthew Rose –  a lullaby in the surrealist cannon: A young girl in a bob cut dreams in a dream of a lemon tree.  She is the revolution, says the artist.

Based on a smaller collage, Immaculate Perception measures 80 cm x 60 cm (31½ by 23¾ inches) and is inkjet printed on fine art paper in an edition of 50, each print signed and numbered and dated by the artist and printed on high quality acid-free fine art paper.

See Immaculate Perception on Keep Calm.   More prints from Matthew Rose here.  

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AMY ROSS & KEEP CALM FOR A WONDERFULLY SURREAL CHRISTMAS 2010

Mad scientist, alchemist, supernatural historian, Amy Ross is all of these and more. Her newest prints for Keep Calm Gallery, bring together her gentle people with mushroom tops and bottoms in a kind of dance ring that quietly celebrates differences in resplendent surreal essays.

Fairy Ring Four marries mushroom stems, hands and birds of all flavors; Fairy Ring Three, some two dozen gentle people capped with a variety of mushroom caps.  Both prints, in editions of 100, are signed and numbered and produced on high quality fine art paper.

The prints sell for £55.00, unframed. Click the images to enlarge.

Before going to art school in Boston Amy Ross earned a Master's degree in theology from Harvard Divinity School.

"Not straying too far from her roots, one of her favourite places to visit for inspiration is the Harvard Museum of Natural History," according to Keep Calm, "where she spends far too much time drawing and studying the taxidermized animals that live there."

See Amy Ross's work at Keep Calm Gallery. 

The London-based online gallery says that orders for international destinations – Japan, USA, Canada and Eastern Europe: Order by 2pm, 9th December.  For Western Europe: Order by 2pm, 10th December.  More here.

WHERE DOES IT ITCH? & OTHER STORIES

THE HISTORY OF FLUXUS, 2010. Collage on paper. From the series, Where Does It Itch? Each 30 x 20.5 cm. 125 €, includes shipping.

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Impossible Possibilities: 2009 Calendar (Free!)

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris is looking forward to another interesting year, and so we thought we'd offer you a digital gift : Impossible Possibilities, a free, downloadable A5-sized calendar you can print out at home – wherever that may be in the world.

The calendar comes with a cover and back page, and 12 months (in French) illustrated with the surreal art work from Matthew Rose.  Simply download the file (it's only 6 mb), print out on your home printer, cut the pages using the crop mark guides, staple up on top and tack to the wall. Interested? Hey, it's free.

DOWNLOAD IMPOSSIBILE POSSIBILITIES 2009 CALENDAR NOW.

Lalande Digital Art Press will print these calendars to order.  Each calendar is produced on 300 gram true card, in full color, shrink wrapped and signed by the artist.  For one: 12 euros.  For 10, 10 euros each. For orders of 50 or more contact us for prices.  We are happy to work with retail stores and businesses anywhere on the planet.  We can produce custom designed calendars, or customize Impossible Possibilities for your company and print your company logo. Or if you'd like to make a dozen or so using your own photographs or art work, we can help you with that, as well.

If you are interested in producing your own calendars, or you're a designer working on calendar projects for your client, we are very happy to work with you to produce the best looking calendar possible.  We can print up to A3-plus sizes, or as small as post card sizes.  Use your imagination and we'll help you put your ideas into print. Contact us for quantities and prices.  In the meantime, many thanks to our existing and future clients...and enjoy Impossible Possibilities 2009 – sure to make for a very Happy New Year.

Happy Shopping: Spam Poetry By Cecil Touchon

Cecil Touchon's poetry in his most recent book, Happy Shopping, is delicious, in the oddest, well, "massurrealist," way. Touchon, a poet-artist, based in Dallas-Texas, extracts material from the very fabric of the massurreality : texts from spam email.

In these poems Touchon offers us a contemplative glimpse into contemporary artistic practice where the artist becomes much more a connector of things than a creator. "Every day trillions of bits of data are transmitted over the Internet," he explains. "As artists peer into this world of information overload a vast body of incoherent data is brought into view. Much like the subconscious explored by the early Surrealists."

Touchon uses this raw material to explore unlikely configurations through the use of found text, the abutment of random, unrelated words and phrases such as the classic example from Lautréamonts Chants de Maldoror: "the unexpected meeting, on a dissection table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella". This embrace of randomness is central to Touchon’s poetic output. And this will make one of the most unusual gifts in 2008 for anyone who owns a credit card, has shopped in LA, has visted the Red Light District in Amsterdam, is named Lindsay Lohan and has an e-mail account.

Touchon offers no easy answer to the issues raised by this deluge of raw data but rather seems to revel in it suggesting that even the most inane material holds the possibility of artistic expression. Order Happy Shopping NOW!

“WHAT IS THIS MASSUREALITY?”

Cecil says:

"We all live in a great Massurreality. It is the world that we, as humans have self created through our use of media. When we watch TV, listen to the radio, read a book or news paper, go to a church, a school or an art museum, when we dabble on the internet or read any sign along the highway as we sit in our vehicles we are absorbing our minds in a humo-centric reality that stand apart from the natural world. In this mental construct we have an identity. It is a borrowed identity, an identity given to us by way of name, by way of race, by way of socio-economic standing, by way of our education, our religion, our occupation, our buying habits. Each of us proudly occupies a place in a variety of demographic parameters. This is our massurrealist identity, our place in the great Massurreality."

Happy Shopping - Massurrealist Spam Poetry by Cecil Touchon; ISBN: 978-0-6151-8244-5 Publisher: Ontological Museum Publications; Rights Owner: Cecil Touchon; Copyright: © 2007 Ontological Museum Publications Standard Copyright License; Language: English; Country: United States; Edition: First Edition