Pitre Vs Velasquez, 2025

L'artiste Pitre  

The Pître Artist is a painter and sculptor who has been active in Paris for about twenty years. A darling of the Île-de-France art scene for his creative madness, his vibrant exhibition openings, and his improbable costumes, he consistently brings a whimsical and comical vision to everything he touches. A devotee of sprawling collections, with hundreds of original, three-dimensional creations to his name, he surprises us with exuberant ephemeral installations and unsettles us with disconcerting sculptures. Hyper-productive, he always makes sure to take off and land where he's least expected. If you tell him that "ART is DEAD," he'll take offense and draw and create a warning sign for you: because with him—perhaps—"THE RAY BITES!" QED?

Completely self-taught, the artist PITRE has never stopped teasing the paintbrush. From the first scribbles in the margins of his poems on his school notebooks, to his first youthful works on washing machine packaging cardboard, his first cuts with a box cutter in the linoleum of his room (to make his mother scream), his first paintings, copies and parodies of Master paintings… he owes his know-how and style only to his experiments, his attempts, his research, his failures and the tenacious continuity of his practice.

His studies, experiences and diplomas in the world of theatre - for 15 years - have allowed him to add to his bow this incredible inventiveness of spatial arrangement, decorum, costumes, sense of spectacle in his compositions as much as in his opening-fairs, where animation and thematic folklore flourish and contribute to the joyful chaos of his "improbable" exhibitions... indescribable.