Charles Matton - at All Visual Arts, London

 

Theatrical, atmospheric, meticulously constructed, Charles Matton's small scale interiors are housed in see through boxes with glass fronts.
                        
The miniature spaces represent real world interiors and revisited memories from Matton’s own life, as well as other recognizable places. 
 
Matton and his assistant painstakingly handbuilt, painted and sculpted every visible detail to 1/7 scale, from fading wallpaper to broken light sockets. Some of  his  enclosures of  famous artist’s studios; such as Francis Bacon (above) and Alberto Giacometti.

 (above) Matton's miniature version of Freud's desk complete with totemic sculptures in perfect scale

                                             (above) Matton in his model, an idea of the scale - Kim