Justin Matherly (B. 1972)
Justin Matherly (B. 1972)

As long as its truth and purity remain inviolate and no blasphemous rationality dares approach its sacred confines (Guilelessly open and deeply hidden)

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Justin Matherly (B. 1972)
As long as its truth and purity remain inviolate and no blasphemous rationality dares approach its sacred confines (Guilelessly open and deeply hidden)
glass reinforced concrete, ambulatory equipment
39 x 22 x 18 1/2 in. (99 x 55.9 x 47 cm.)
Executed in 2011.
Provenance
Bureau, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
London, Saatchi Gallery, Body Language, November 2013-March 2014, p. 71 (illustrated in color).

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“Sculpture is the way I engage with everything, everything as block, whether we are taking about literature, film, music, etc. I understand everything under a general rubric of dimensionality. Sculpture is also something that is there, the physicality inherent in nature. And finally the material presence; someone once said, and here I have to paraphrase: ‘materialist that I am, I’d prefer to owe it to my ass than to my ideas” (J. Matherly, 'Justin Matherly Interviewed by Howie Chen, Dispatch, September 2009, accessed via https://dispatchbureau.com/images/dispatch_bulletins/Dispatch1_JM.pdf). 

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