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Maxime Mucret
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France
• 1962
Biography
I have long sought "complicated" explanations for my artistic approach to conclude that I simply felt strong sensations in contact with my immediate environment.
The sound of a train that tears the silence of the night, a building in an enigmatic space or the density of a night creates at first a sort of emotional fault that I then try to relive on a canvas or a paper. The dreamlike pictorial form seems to me the most appropriate for this kind of artistic "vision".
In one way or another, these sensations refer me to different feelings specific to the human condition that I treat without necessarily making appear the human by its physical presence but rather by echoes interposed.
The presence of a monkey silhouette in some of my drawings brings primitive insolence to human questioning; as if finally these latter had kept a greater lucidity than ours in the face of time and the "sacred".
So I feed on everyday life but also music and various poetic or even scientific texts to broaden my vision of things and make them evolve towards more essential.
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The sound of a train that tears the silence of the night, a building in an enigmatic space or the density of a night creates at first a sort of emotional fault that I then try to relive on a canvas or a paper. The dreamlike pictorial form seems to me the most appropriate for this kind of artistic "vision".
In one way or another, these sensations refer me to different feelings specific to the human condition that I treat without necessarily making appear the human by its physical presence but rather by echoes interposed.
The presence of a monkey silhouette in some of my drawings brings primitive insolence to human questioning; as if finally these latter had kept a greater lucidity than ours in the face of time and the "sacred".
So I feed on everyday life but also music and various poetic or even scientific texts to broaden my vision of things and make them evolve towards more essential.
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