Matchoro Guy

Statement:

REALITY IS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THE PAINTING.

WHO: Guy Matchoro, is an autodidact artist. He lives and works in Nevers, France, where he has installed his studio since 2013. After a creative process nourished and fuelled with encounters and artistic collaborations, in particular in Kyoto, Japan, where he lived for a time, he focuses its studies towards a pictorial approach based and thought from a materiality of painting.

WHAT: I began the past years a pictorial practice fully based and thought from what was strictly physical and material in painting. I have always been fascinated by the materiality of painting by its tactile side - its tactility and how this affinity should be able to finally transmit feelings and ideas which could be very very abstract. My relationship to painting is not any more in term of capture of the real-world. It is the picture in itself which is reality. What is the reality ? It's the reality of the act to paint which comes to appear there. I any more will not seek something elsewhere to nourish it or to justify it.

WHERE: I placed myself by the teachings that I have learned from painters, books, museums, exhibitions, writings, but even more by traveling around the world... And t...

autodidact

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
FRANCE:
Paris, Lyon, Lille, Enghien-Les-Bains, Les Sables d'Olonne, Salon de Provence, Martigues, Nevers, Chantilly, Montmorency, Deuil-La Barre, Île de Ré
EUROPE:
Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Harrogate (G.B.), Neuchâtel, Lausanne, Zurich, Oslo, Southampton (P&O Cruise)
USA:
New York NY, Port Washington WI, Portland OR, San Francisco CA, Los Gatos CA, Santa Monica CA, Chicago IL, Tampa FL, Fort Lee NJ
CARIBBEAN :
Santo Domingo, Las Terrenas (Dominican Republic)
SOUTH AMERICA :
Rio de Janeiro, San Paolo (Brazil)
ASIA:
Doha (Qatar), Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima (Japan)
MIDDLE EAST: Herzliya, Tel-Aviv (Israel)

SOLO
2019. Museum Gautron du Coudray France
2018. Outreloire Gallery France
2017 Le Petit Magasin, France
2016 La GALERIE, Lyon France
2014 ARKO Gallery France
2012 New Angles Gallery Paris
2010 Cities of solidarity, Villepreux.
2009 XXVe Autumn Fair, Igny. (special guest)
2004 Bertin Poirée space. Paris
2000 Duplex, Paris.
1999 re gallery,Paris.
1997 Espace Pluriels, Paris.
Doki doki gallery, Kyoto
1995 Maïté Béjar gal Cordoba, Espagne.


GROUP
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