Michael Craig-Martin: Surfacing

This exhibition marked MK-G's fifth anniversary and was Craig-Martin’s largest and most comprehensive in a British public gallery for more than ten years and comprised of four distinct strands:

-An exterior commission which transformed MK-G into a painted artwork -Four large-scale paintings based on the work of two of Craig-Martin’s favourite historical artists, Piero della Francesca and Georges Seurat -A new installation of specially designed wallpaper with eleven panel paintings -A group of six recent paintings

Known for his sweeping, brightly coloured canvases that depict a repertoire of everyday objects, his art is one of maximum economy and impact. Central to his work is the act of drawing and an investigation of line, space and form. His painted objects flicker between foreground and background, between line and image. All suggest a form of imminent human interaction which is forever absent.

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Michael Craig-Martin: Surfacing