Manu Perez

Manu Perez was born in 1968 in Brittany. He grew up in Marseilles and moved to Paris at the age of 19. He graduated fom the Paris Beaux-Arts School. After a break from painting, he starts painting in his studio imaginary landscapes and open spaces, in a constant search for light. At first he paints vast perspectives on lage-format canvases. He switches to smaller formats, reducing his field and depicting other subjects, simple ones: mainly chairs and skulls. Once he defined his subjects, Manu Perez could have a more sereve vision of his painting and the question: "what shall I paint" became "how shall I paint?". His palette opened up...