drawing02. Drawing

At a time when painters are scarce, Mathieu Wernert continues to express his will to paint. And even if he explores other fields of creativity, photography for instance, he keeps on going back to this primary gesture in a basic and instinctive way. That is what makes him not only an artist but a painter. In the way he paints, Mathieu Wernert considers all the possibilities that are offered to him, and sets out more and more to abstract forms that question the limit of the frame, as if he wanted to intend the constraint the artist has to release himself of. He carries out colored shapes or ornamental patterns, like his latest arabesques, before scraping off the canvas until it is stripped down, not to say bruised by the strokes. A detail, a discrepancy, a failure warn him, putting an end to his intervention, the canvas is completed, now it can be shown to the public. The art of Mathieu Wernert could be considered literary attempts that aim at isolating the word, at relocating it, at splitting it up into groups of letters, at paring it down to basics, that of flawless affect and the emotional charge that is associated with it. The comparison could also be made with musical approaches that tend to work on sound matter, free-jazz, hip hop, or some avant-garde electronic music that are of inspiring influence to him. Mathieu Wernert's commitment is highly poetic in the way it speaks for itself and unravels the hidden reality that is concealed from our view or is beyond belief : that part of inwardness of its own that moves us. On the basis of fragments - remnants resistant to the mistreatments the painter inflicts to the shapes he created on the canvas - the poetic material is born. From these overlapping spaces saturated with colours, only the traces of repeated gestures using a spatula remain, "magnificent ruins" one might be tempted to say. In the end, the only thing that is left on the canvas is a feeling, an emotion, sparse fragments of the sublime. (traduction : Franck Marxer) Emmanuel Abela ( rédacteur en chef.Novo/Zut/Mots et Sons ) À une époque où les peintres se font rares, Mathieu Wernert continue d'exprimer un désir de peinture. Et même s'il explore d'autres champs de la créativité, la photographie par exemple, il ne cesse de revenir à ce geste premier et d'éprouver celui-ci fondamentalement, presque viscéralement. En cela, il n'est pas seulement artiste, il est peintre. my specialty is living said a man E.E.