Downtown, Los Angeles
Rodrigo Matheus
Soft Spectacle
IbidRodrigo Matheus’s works uses metaphorical assemblage of industrial design, architecture, and natural material to create installation, sculpture, and collage which challenges the perception of objects as subjects by detaching them from their routine uses. The artist’s arrangements group together a range of everyday objects and materials which create disquieting structures that subvert Cartesian notions of form and function given by modernity and its industry. This material dialogue discusses the absurdity behind our desire for progress based on the systems of mass production. Rodrigo Matheus was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1974. He received an MA from the Royal College of Arts, London. He has been included in institutional exhibitions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Swiss Institute, New York; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; New Museum, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. He currently lives and works in Paris. Soft Spectacle is presented in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA