Artist : Mat Chivers
Title : Eye
Medium : nero marquina and thassos marble
Dimensions : 45 x 90 x 37 cm


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This work was made for the blockbuster museum exhibition ‘Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick’ held at Somerset House. The form of Mat Chivers’ marble sculpture derives from a digital manipulation of a ten second sequence from Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey: the moment when the camera focuses on the astronaut’s eye as he enters the ‘Stargate’. This data was then translated into stone. The two-tone pattern perhaps alludes to universal opposites, perhaps in syzygy or in conflict, which has become a synonymous characteristic of Chivers oeuvre.

The work of British artist Mat Chivers looks at some of the fundamental phenomena that drive our thoughts and actions. He explores ideas relating to perception, evolutionary process, ecology and ethics by bringing traditional analogue approaches to making into counterpoint with state of the art digital technologies. Chivers has works in numerous private and public collections including Oxford University Mathematical Institute, UK and Fondazione Henraux, Italy. Solo exhibitions include ‘Migrations’ at Arsenal Art Contemporain Montréal, Canada and Musée d’art de Joliette, Canada; ‘Harmonic Distortion’ at PM/AM, London, UK, ‘Altered State’s at Hallmark House, Johannesburg, South Africa and ‘Syzygy’ at Anima Mundi. Group exhibitions include The New States of Being at Centre d’Exposition de l’Université de Montréal, Canada; A Place In Time at Nirox, Johannesburg, South Africa; Glasstress: White Light/White Heat at Pallazzo Cavalli Franchetti for the 55th Venice Biennale, Italy and The Knowledge at The Gervasuti Foundation for the 54th Venice Biennale, Italy.