The city as a participatory project full of diverse authorship, of urban planning and architectural intentions as well as arbitrary interventions by people and their mistakes, has long fascinated Matej Maturkanič.

He translates its visual codes, details and structures onto the pictorial surface in a way that plays with individual layers of visual and haptic information and at the same time with the boundaries between painterly, graphic and drawing gestures. By combining acrylic painting and underpainting, spray, oil crayons and the monotype technique, he creates constantly rewritten layers on the two dimensional surface of the canvas, in keeping with the palimpsestic character of urban space.

Text: Miroslava Urbanová