DIVING BLUE

Exhibition from April 25 to October 31, 2024

Pierre Mathéus was born in 1977 in Deauville. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2002, he lives and works in Paris.

What does painting tell us? This elementary question is the basis of Pierre Mathéus' research, who likes to consider painting as an entity that sometimes remains hidden, sometimes reveals itself to us. It is this intrinsic duality of expression – what is said also contains what is not – that we find in Pierre Mathéus' previous work, Tabloïds, large figurative formats, which through a pictorial technique playing on voids and fullness, black and white, led us to the frontiers of abstraction, thus providing a perspective on our contemporary societies.

This approach to a painting that reveals itself to us is, in the series
Diving Blue, pushed into complete abstraction and in an approach stripped of any discourse except that of painting as such.

Diving Blue is less a series about color, blue being for Pierre
Matheus the light of the dark, that on the search for the form. Like a jazz player, a musical genre that accompanies the artist's work, the latter adheres to a discipline where the repetition of the gesture is the condition of his liberation and surprise.

This dive into abstraction is guided by the appearance of discoveries.
pages of white supports by the depths of blue, the absorptions of matter by the different papers used, the scents released by the blue ink and the brass of free jazz.

Mestiers will exhibit at 9 rue Francoeur, 75018 Paris, thirty-seven works from the Diving Blue series which includes several formats of inks on paper as well as acrylics on canvas.