Description - Martin Maloney: Actress Slash Model by Sarah Whitfield
Taking as a starting point the banal, semi-nude female models that appear daily in British tabloid newspapers, Maloney reconstructs their playful poses in large-scale collages and works on paper to be shown in both the Carlos Place and Dering Street galleries. Bold, amusing and varied, these collages are a continuation of a body of work that mixes high-art reference with pop-cultural influences. Maloney uses an intuitive and seemingly Expressionist style to examine the classic art historical genre of the female nude. The buxom bodies of young, fleshy ingenues are collaged in blocks of colour taken from previously painted and discarded canvases. Figurative and strikingly graphic, these works are infiltrated with the complexity of abstraction. Recycling and reforming his own work, Maloney takes something old to make something new."
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