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Les Visites Saint-Paul - exhibition by Mathew McWilliams

The Saint Paul Visits, first!
 
This inaugural exhibition, organized for the first time by the Village Saint Paul association, is spread over 15 spaces in this historic district of the Marais. The Saint Paul visits are an opportunity to discover the work of Mathew McWilliams, a Canadian-born artist who lives in Paris and whose studio is located at Poush, a place dedicated to contemporary creation in Aubervilliers. For twenty years, on canvas and paper, Mathew McWilliams has been working on the question of imprinting and revelation to a point of delicate tension. By multiplying techniques and associated gestures, the surface, rubbed, folded, crumpled, obstructed, dyed, painted, printed, photographed or re-photographed, that is to say approached in various ways according to the requirement that animates it, becomes like a piece of pure time, where the passages and interventions form matter, where the color, of fossil trace, becomes a true epiphany.
This original artistic meeting around a selection of abstract pieces from his latest series, each presented in a different place, allows you to meet a wallpaper publisher, an antique dealer, a ceramics restorer, a bookseller, a designer, a wine merchant, a gallery owner... With the figures of the Village, the heart and soul of a neighborhood. 
To be discovered until November 6, 2022
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The Saint-Paul Visits, premiere!

This inaugural exhibition, organised for the first time by the Village Saint Paul association is hosted in 15 venues in this historic neighbourhood of the Marais. The Saint-Paul Visits are the opportunity to discover the work of Mathew McWilliams, a Canadian artist who lives in Paris and whose workshop is located in Poush, a site devoted to contemporary creation in Aubervillers. For twenty years, on canvas and paper, Mathew McWilliams has taken the question of imprinting, revelation, to a point of delicate tension. By multiplying the techniques used and the associated gestures, the surface, rubbed, folded, crumpled, obstructed, dyed, painted, printed, photographed or re-photographed, namely approached from various angles according to what drives it, becomes like a piece of pure time, in which passages and interventions form materials, in which color, a fossil trace, becomes a real epiphany.

This original artistic event around a selection of abstract works from his latest series, each presented in a different venue, offers you the chance to meet a wallpaper designer, an antique dealer, a ceramics restorer, a bookseller, a designer, a wine merchant, a gallery owner, and more. With figures from the Village, the heart and soul of a neighbourhood.

 

Curator: Samuel Gassmann

Text: Carine Soyer

Graphic design : Maximilien Pegeot - Delaforge