James Mathison’s magnificent sculptures are found in museums (MOLAA), corporate and important private collections, parks and other public spaces. The press, curators and experts have paid close attention to his many shows in Paris and Switzerland. His monographs have recently taken him to Texas and Chicago and Miami. James Mathison’s sculptures have been reviewed in the local and international press. Lately, collectors have acquired his pieces at Art Miami and Art Palm Beach.
His male nude sculptures transmit silent feelings of loneliness, melancholy and mutation. The "power of dialogue" is to be found in that silence. He’s known by his exquisite anatomical studies of the male body but in this show he mutates them with engraved lines of text that appears to be "coming from the interior of the being." Once again, the "power of dialogue" is coming out through their silence.
Mathison is interested in a dialogue with certain artistic traditions such as those by Michelangelo, Rodin, Degas, Giacometti and Zitman. These traditions go back to external proposals on humanity: to be before man, before matter, transformed into an idea of mankind.
James Mathison lives and works in Europe. He took courses at the St. Martin's Institute of Arts in London, England. He is included in museum collections in Venezuela and the United States. - Aldo Castillo Gallery
