MATTHIEU POMMIER
France
Matthieu Pommier started painting walls in the early 2000s in the west of France. The Atlantic, maritime life and port spaces then permeated his first plastic research.
A passionate drawer, he naturally gravitates towards applied arts, alongside an assiduous practice of graffiti. He will gradually leave the aerosol for acrylic paint and oil, which allow him greater control of colors and their interaction. Initially, he also worked as an industrial designer, before devoting himself exclusively to his artistic practice.
His painting is figurative and colorful.
The world he represents is both dreamlike and ordinary, ‘fictitious and real’. In his subjects, Matthieu Pommier combines his memories and his personal history with a rigorous observation of what surrounds him. Architecture and manufactured objects occupy a central place in his work, because they materialize our activities and our aspirations. The characters, for their part, are observed with a certain distance in his compositions. They are the extras of the context which sees them evolve.
For Matthieu Pommier, everything is just a passing presence, carefree and volatile, in synthetic spaces, imbued with artificiality. His works always have a narrative dimension that is up to the viewer to interpret.
