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Matthew Krishanu's paintings explore topics including childhood, race, religion, art history, family, grief and love. His subjects – frequently Brown people, especially children – are realised with a shallow pictorial depth, delicate washes of colour, and with a sense of interior life. Through this, Krishanu questions the positions of his painterly subjects and depictions of landscapes in relation to the legacy of European colonialism and the art historical canon. Krishanu's practice is heavily informed by his early childhood spent in Dhaka where his parents moved in order to work for the Church of Bangladesh. This, his first trade monograph, presents a number of series of Krishanu's works: Another Country, Expatriates, Mission, House of God, Religious Workers and In Sickness and In Health. The paintings included have been made in oil and/or acrylic on canvas, linen or board, with the earliest produced in 2007 and most recent completed in 2022. The publication features essays by Mark Rappolt and Dorothy Price, alongside an interview with the artist by Ben Luke. Rappolt, Editor-in-Chief at ArtReview magazine, details the various worlds present within Krishanu's paintings. He draws out key themes within Krishanu's oeuvre such as power, religion, identity and memory, while highlighting its distance from didacticism, and at times, its carefully constructed ambivalence, through examination of key works such as Mission School (2017), Mountain Tent (Two Boys) (2020) and Playground (2020). Price, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at The Courtauld, writes sensitively about solitude, memory and emotion which are palpable within Krishanu's work. In particular, the series In Sickness and In Health, which traces a life path of Uschi Gatward, the artist's late wife, over sixteen years to her untimely death from cancer in late 2021. The series is foregrounded as a significant and intimate body of work that subtly shifts over the time period it depicts. In a new interview with Luke, a critic and editor at The Art Newspaper, Krishanu discusses his practice in relation to ideas of religion, race, global art history, photography, health and personal experiences. Krishanu's work explores, in the artist's own words, 'the puzzle of painting'. AUTHOR: Matthew Krishanu (b.1980) was born in Bradford and is based in London. He completed an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2009. Recent solo exhibitions at public institutions include Matt's Gallery (2019), Midlands Art Centre (2019), Ikon Gallery (2019) and Huddersfield Art Gallery (2018). 125 illustrations

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"""Showcasing the artwork of Matthew Krishanu, this large, hardcover, coffee-table style volume (290 x 245 mm) is an ideal and informative introduction that is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic library Contemporary Art collections.""-- ""Midwest Book Review"""

""Showcasing the artwork of Matthew Krishanu, this large, hardcover, coffee-table style volume (290 x 245 mm) is an ideal and informative introduction that is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic library Contemporary Art collections.""-- ""Midwest Book Review""

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Matthew Krishanu (b.1980) was born in Bradford and is based in London. He completed an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2009. Recent solo exhibitions at public institutions include Matt’s Gallery (2019), Midlands Art Centre (2019), Ikon Gallery (2019) and Huddersfield Art Gallery (2018). Mark Rappolt is the Editor-in-Chief of ArtReview. He founded its sister publication, ArtReview Asia, in 2013. His writing has appeared in publications ranging from The Times and Die Zeit to i-D and Citizen K. As well as contributing to numerous catalogues, books include monographs on architects Greg Lynn and Frank Gehry. Ben Luke is a writer and broadcaster based in London. He is a contributing editor of The Art Newspaper, and presents its podcasts A brush with… and The Week in Art. Since 2009, he has been a critic at the London Evening Standard. He is a member of the advisory committee for the UK's Government Art Collection. Dr Dorothy Price is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She also works as a curator for institutions including The Royal Academy of Arts, London, The Arnolfini, Bristol, the Lowry, Salford and The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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