
Cheap imitations 6, 2008 - Matthieu Ronsse
about this work
Matthieu Ronsse has made several publications taking the form of a newspaper, juxtaposing photographs from his studio and painterly practice with details from his paintings. This unique work on paper is painted on a spread taken from one of these newspaper publications. The series Cheap Imitations is the result of an artist who is cleaning up his studio, but is procrastinating and continuously picks up paper laying to start small works on paper with the paint that remains on his palette. The images he creates originate from multiplicity of sources, from both high and low culture. Ronsse refers frequently to art history, but just as easy to nudes from a cheap seventies magazine.