Antoine Puisais

In my work the notion of UNFINISHED is essential. These are VESTIGES of painting. DUG UP fragments, results of an ALMOST ARCHAEOLOGICAL search.
Before anything else it's important to understand how works my OPERATING SYSTEM. I use MATRICES to transfer on canvas the results of these researches. Matrices are panels of plywoods which act as STAMPS. 
This process of "archaic printing" is all messed up. So, each time, a lot of ACCIDENTS happen. And each time, I tear away the canvas of its support, I DISCOVER the painting. 
From that process results a procession of lacks and errors. Paintings are then repaired, restored and recomposed from these fragments of images.

I act in a logic of construction, destruction and renovation. To seize this key moment between the END and the REVIVAL. For me, the act of painting is always a soft war between what you show and what you hide, it's a reflection of an interiority and, in this BINARY act of adding and eliminating, I am interested in what RESISTS.


-------------------------------------Selon Kakuzo Okakura (1862-1913) : « La vraie beauté ne peut être découverte que par celui qui mentalement complète l’incomplet, (…) et qui délibérément laisse les choses inachevées pour que l’imaginati...

Self-taught, autodidacte.

- 2015 Let the legs do the work, Fondazione 107, Turin.
- 2015 Between the manifest and the hidden, Vigo Gallery, London.
- 2014 Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York.
- 2009 Help the grown folks-galerie J&T Montes, Paris.
- 2008 Cumul des influences-galerie J&T Montes, Paris.
- 2008 Summer Breeze-galerie Mamatoro, Cannes.
- 2007 Le royaume des mouches-galerie Mamatoro, Cannes.
- 2004 Made in Cannes-espace La Licorne, DRAC de Cannes.
- 1999 Galerie de l’Homme d’intérieur, Cannes.


Group show:

- 2017, Composing and Caring, Sid Motion Gallery, LONDON.
- 2016, Rhizomes, Play time project, Cannes.
- 2015 Let’s talk postmodernity, Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York.
- 2015 IDEA, Miami.
- 2014 De Generation of painting, Fondazione 107, Turin.
- 2014 IDEA, Copenhagen.
- 2014 Territoires, Galerie 59, Paris.
- 2011 Salon du dessin contemporain-DRAWING NOW- galerie GZ, Paris.
- 2011 Art ou science-Couvent des récollets,Paris.
- 2008 Prologue-association Playtime, Cannes.
- 2008 Festival Niu’art-Hotel3.14, Cannes.
- 2008 What’s new ?-galerie J&T Montes, Paris
- 2006 Le volume-association Playtime, Nice.
- 2006 Atelier 46-atelier 46, Cannes.