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“Peintures récentes” (Recent Paintings) is the sixth show featuring Matthieu Palud’s work to bear this same title. The title, laconic to say the least, does offer the advantage of telling nothing beforehand about what the artist’s pictures represent or express. It simply poses a relative unity of time – several months at most separating production and display – and place, i.e., the canvas. Through repeated phases that are occasionally spaced out over time, Matthieu’s painting accompanies the present without necessarily creating formal habits. Better still, the “recent” always seems to give free rein to the “new”, the upshot being that the artist’s output regularly goes unrecognized as his, that is, painted by the same person. There have been pictures, for example, that realistically depicted the shadows and light of certain household details (the first that I saw), followed by others that were very psychedelic, schematic, and fluorescent. I should perhaps point out here that...More
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“Peintures récentes” (Recent Paintings) is the sixth show featuring Matthieu Palud’s work to bear this same title. The title, laconic to say the least, does offer the advantage of telling nothing beforehand about what the artist’s pictures represent or express. It simply poses a relative unity of time – several months at most separating production and display – and place, i.e., the canvas. Through repeated phases that are occasionally spaced out over time, Matthieu’s painting accompanies the present without necessarily creating formal habits. Better still, the “recent” always seems to give free rein to the “new”, the upshot being that the artist’s output regularly goes unrecognized as his, that is, painted by the same person. There have been pictures, for example, that realistically depicted the shadows and light of certain household details (the first that I saw), followed by others that were very psychedelic, schematic, and fluorescent. I should perhaps point out here that...More
