I Don't Know What to Say, 2007, cuts on comics, 10.25 x 14 inches
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Mathias Schmied manipulates comic strips and magazine images to create wall installations and drawings that are a play between seductive, raw pop imagery and precise, polished manipulation. The immediacy of found images—pages ripped off from Men’s magazines or cheap comic books—meets the painstaking gesture of the X-acto blade, fragmenting the image to reduce it to a skeleton or to a web of fine strips. Born in Berne, Switzerland, he received his MFA from the Ecole des Beaux-arts, Lyon, France in 2003. He lives and works in Crest, a small village outside of Lyon. In 2007, he had a solo show at Josée Bienvenu gallery, New York. He was recently included in the Art on Paper Biennial at the Weatherspoon Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina and his drawings are included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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