Matthew Hawtin

Category: Prints

  • Dimensions Exhibition | London | 2019

    Dimensions Exhibition | London | 2019

    Dimensions is a multimedia exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of Richie Hawtin’s iconic F.U.S.E. albums. Plus 8 Records and The Vinyl Factory are pleased to release the re-mastered albums Dimension Intrusion and Train-Tracs alongside the yet unreleased album Computer Space. Originally recorded in 1993 it completes the extended range of Hawtin’s recording persona.

    The exhibition presents original artworks by the visual artist Matthew Hawtin and premiers Computer Space in an exclusive listening session prior to its official release. For the first time the visual and sonic works that mutually inspired the artists are merged to a cohesive experience for a public audience.

    In the formative years of the early 1990s Richie and his brother Matthew were still living at their parents’ house in Windsor, Canada and would frequently cross the border into Detroit together to immerse themselves in the developing underground Techno scene. The electrifying energy would leave a deep impression on both of them and fuelled their creativity. While Richie explored his creative vision through music, the fine art student Matthew found his expression through painting yet they would share ideas and inspiration – Richie’s album titles Dimension Intrusion and Computer Space were both derived from Matthew’s paintings and would lend as their cover artwork.

    Today the early F.U.S.E. recordings are as relevant as they were upon their initial release, when they shaped the emerging sound of Techno music. Since then Richie Hawtin has moved on to his Plastikman persona, evolving DJ shows and CLOSE live performances as well as developing music performance technologies, continuously pioneering and challenging himself and the genre of Techno. Matthew Hawtin continues to evolve his art into new areas of expression. He exhibits widely and works out of Windsor and Detroit, the place where it all began.

    F.U.S.E. Dimensions

  • Allsorts | Scott White Contemporary Art | 2017

    Allsorts

    Scott White Contemporary Art
    San Diego, CA, USA
    February 25 – April 21, 2017

    Allsorts is a selection of recent work by the artist, Matthew Hawtin. The name ‘Allsorts’ comes from the British candy of the same name, a mixture of liquorice sweets in varying bright colours, designs and textures. The exhibition contains examples of Matthew’s work across the Torqued Series and includes paintings on canvas, fiberglass panels and the new corner works. The show also features the first silkscreen print edition – a set of four prints that further explores the abstract frame of the ‘Torqued Paintings’ series. Although differing in materials, each series is interconnected through a similar visual dialogue, prescribing to a ‘less is more’ philosophy. The corner piece grew from the panels and the panels came from the paintings – a slow divergent evolution of ideas investigating line, shape, colour, and texture, while exploring new materials. The works sit within the historical canon of painterly abstraction, working along the boundaries of hardedge and colour-field painting and also minimalism. The sculptural nature of the works situates them across disciplines, blurring the line between painting and sculpture and also design and architecture. Matthew infuses the work with an indirect emotion and hopes the viewers can turn off to experience the works for more than a moment and stir up the veiled feelings of our daily lives. With each new work or series Matthew continually explores the nature of space, form and colour using the aesthetic language he has been developing and evolving over the past 20 years of art practice.

  • Plus 8 & M-nus releases