Mathias Z

Doctor, painter, doctor, contemporary, medical, renaissance, acrylic, oil, painting, acrylic, oil, canvas, canvas, mixed, pigment, felt, character, imaginary, inventive, original

"You really have a singular universe, Mathias Z!" (A Parisian gallery owner)

It started from childhood and it never left him:

The boy he was, armed with pastel pencils, endlessly covered the sheets of paper that the schoolmistress provided him with small and large drawings.

Then he quickly switched to oil paint (A gift from his parents!) On wooden planks. Today he tests everything: color sprays, acrylic paint, grease pencils, charcoal, pigments, airbrush, wood wax, industrial paints, resin. he paints on many supports: wood, canvas bought or made, plexiglass, old canvas recovered at the recycling center or bought at Emmaüs… And the field to explore is still vast!

After a long break, it was only at the end of the boarding school that his desire to paint resurfaced.

Far from theories and academics, he said to himself:

"I will invent my own painting, I will spread the colors that I like and that's it! Goodbye the compatibility of one color with another, goodbye perspective, imposed volumes, goodbye technique ... emotion that will prevail! I will add a touch of madness, I will let myself hover and dream with my painting! "

He started to launch around 2014/2015: his painting he wanted above all free, intuitive. He locked himself up with her for three years, painting during weekends and in the evening after work, totally detached from technique and artistic fashion. Then gradually he began to exchange with other painters and learn their methods.

The characters he creates come to him:

"The characters I start them without sketch then they speak to me: they tell me how to represent them, how to color them. Figuration is for me only a pretext for designing imaginary paintings. By always having only one goal, only one desire: arouse emotions.