Muriel Massin

The works of Muriel Massin, in an abundance of gesture and movement, color and material, seem to tirelessly tell and repeat the little stories of the emerging world which itself engenders in a primordial chaos in a creative bubbling.

In her canvases and drawings, she presents microcosms installed, in stills, salutary pauses in the midst of stormy chaos. Frozen in the finished canvas, they nevertheless continue to pulsate and beat in his heart.

In Muriel Massin's painting, the gesture is essential first, for an abundance of colors, lights and materials. His family is that of gestural abstraction, which we say lyrical, with powerful expressionist accents.

For her, the gesture is an act of doing. It deploys its amplitude in the creative movement, it imposes its force on the impulse of the moment.

The artist says that the painting is "a passage to the act", his painting of the gesture is a rapid pulsation which crosses us, palpitates and agitates, outside of itself and within us, it is is a tonic display of life, it is a celebration of the world.

The result provides a beautiful intoxication, long in our eyes as a wine would be long in the mouth. A complex and explosive force made up of multiple nuances Not a feverish emergency, but a savage density of a thousand voices inhabited.

The artist needs a part of conquering madness, of a beyond of the gesture, of a beyond of the world.

- Marc Gauthier