http://www.matsbrate.com Mats Brate Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:36:38 +0000 http://www.matsbrate.com en http://www.matsbrate.com/Tintin-and-I http://www.matsbrate.com/following/matsbrate.com/Tintin-and-I Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:36:38 +0000 Mats Brate 2026310 In February 2011 I gave a lecture called Tintin and I? at Kalmar Art Museum. The lecture adressed issues of racism in Hergés early work. I also talked about how Hergé and the books about Tintin have influenced me as an artist. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2026310/Tintinlecture_905.jpg" width="905" height="606" width_o="1810" height_o="1212" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2026310/Tintinlecture_o.jpg" data-mid="10075638" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.matsbrate.com/Places-People-Stories http://www.matsbrate.com/following/matsbrate.com/Places-People-Stories Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:18:25 +0000 Mats Brate 2013185 Places People Stories is a ongoing project aimed to result in a conference publication in comic book form for the conference with the same name. This conference investigates the relations between people and places, focusing on the role of stories in constructing meaning and affecting human emotions.The project is a collaboration between Petter Hanberger and I as a team and Linnaeus University, Kalmar. We have set out to produce an indepedent original work that is relevant to the main aims for the conference. http://www.matsbrate.com/Dogs http://www.matsbrate.com/following/matsbrate.com/Dogs Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:16:05 +0000 Mats Brate 2011836 Dogs, Hundarnas stad in Swedish, is a graphic novel. It's a collaboration with novelist Stefan Gurt who wrote the script. This is a work in progress and about 90 pages of 130 are finished.<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2011836/DogsCover_905.jpg" width="905" height="678" width_o="1810" height_o="1356" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2011836/DogsCover_o.jpg" data-mid="10000750" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2011836/DogsPage1_905.jpg" width="905" height="678" width_o="1810" height_o="1356" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2011836/DogsPage1_o.jpg" data-mid="10000745" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2011836/DogsPage2_905.jpg" width="905" height="678" width_o="1810" height_o="1356" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2011836/DogsPage2_o.jpg" data-mid="10000748" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.matsbrate.com/Cherry-Blossom http://www.matsbrate.com/following/matsbrate.com/Cherry-Blossom Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:33:37 +0000 Mats Brate 2001833 A commission for the library of new build school, Hanemålaskolan, in Nybro 2010. I have, since I was little, always liked the atmosphere in libraries. I wanted to do a painting with some movement in the composition, still I wanted it to express a calm peacefulness.The motive is paper cherry blossoms made in Japanese Origami technuique. Oil on canvas. Mesaures: 20' x 4'. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001833/Library_905.jpg" width="905" height="517" width_o="1772" height_o="1014" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001833/Library_o.jpg" data-mid="9944964" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001833/Korsbarsblom1copy_905.jpg" width="905" height="518" width_o="905" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001833/Korsbarsblom1copy_o.jpg" data-mid="9948826" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001833/Korsbarsblom2copy.jpg" width="548" height="518" width_o="548" height_o="518" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001833/Korsbarsblom2copy_o.jpg" data-mid="9948803" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.matsbrate.com/Stars http://www.matsbrate.com/following/matsbrate.com/Stars Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:07:09 +0000 Mats Brate 2001774 Stars is a sculpture commissioned by Kalmar Muncipality for a new build day-care center at the school in Rinkabyholm. The users had several criteria for the work; safety was a major issue, different materials was a request, and the sculpture was to function as a natural place for the children to assembly.Materials: Two of the stars, the green and the silver one, are cast in aluminium and painted respectively polished. The brown star is sculpted out of wood and treated with linseed-oil and pigments. The black star on the ground is made out of concrete and treated with wax and pigments.<img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001774/StarsNight_905.jpg" width="905" height="746" width_o="1810" height_o="1492" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001774/StarsNight_o.jpg" data-mid="10000277" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001774/StarsGirl_905.jpg" width="905" height="746" width_o="1810" height_o="1492" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001774/StarsGirl_o.jpg" data-mid="10000281" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001774/StarsBoy_905.jpg" width="905" height="746" width_o="1810" height_o="1492" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001774/StarsBoy_o.jpg" data-mid="10000285" border="0" align="left"/> http://www.matsbrate.com/Horse-Men http://www.matsbrate.com/following/matsbrate.com/Horse-Men Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:35:31 +0000 Mats Brate 2001511 A commission by Ölands Folkhögskola for the new build studio building 2009. The school had decided on the theme Horse and I made this drawing with inspiration from book of Revelation 6:1-8, the story of the four Horsemen of the ApocalypseThe rider closest to the viewer is a self portrait, the second and fourth are characters from Dogs. The third rider, lightnig a cigarette, is a portrait of Jackson Pollock, one of my favourite painters. A Photoshop drawing printed on vinyl by Big image in Stockholm. The print mesaures 25' x 15'. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001511/HorseMenView_905.jpg" width="905" height="678" width_o="1810" height_o="1356" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001511/HorseMenView_o.jpg" data-mid="10000028" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001511/HorseMenDrawing_905.jpg" width="905" height="678" width_o="1810" height_o="1356" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001511/HorseMenDrawing_o.jpg" data-mid="10000019" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001511/HorseMenFacade_905.jpg" width="905" height="678" width_o="1810" height_o="1356" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/147468/2001511/HorseMenFacade_o.jpg" data-mid="10000025" border="0" align="left"/>