Piveteau Pascal Laurent

My painting begins where the material insists.

Acrylic — layered, scraped, allowed to drip and settle — is what I follow rather than what I command. Each canvas holds a tension between deliberate gesture and the accident the studio chooses to keep: the stroke that goes too far, the pigment that moves on its own, the silence between two marks. Phoenix, distortion, ondes — recurring motifs of energy held still — all emerge from that negotiation.

Colour carries weight here. Reds are not symbols; they are temperature. Blues are not moods; they are duration. Black-and-white is not absence of colour but a discipline, a rhythm imposed on the hand. I think of the canvas less as a surface than as a body that breathes long after it has dried.

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Pascal Piveteau (b. 1965, Paris) is a French abstract painter based in Burgundy. Self-taught, he developed his practice from 2010 between Paris and Casablanca, working primarily in acrylic on canvas with layered brushwork, vertical drips and material accumulation.

His paintings have been shown across France, China, Luxembourg, Hong Kong and the United States. Selected venues include the Carrousel du Louvre and the Salon d'Art Contemporain de la Villette in Paris (2015), Galerie Sonia Monti on the...

Self-taught.

2026 — Studio relaunch as PP ART LAB. Hand-embellished, signed and numbered limited editions of selected originals (Phoenix Rouge, Distortion, Onde Noire). Certificates of authenticity issued via artcertificate.eu.