Matthieu Schmidlin

"Art as a means of loving"

Matthew child is a boy that one would say small, timid, gentle, curious, hypersensitive, amazed. Nature and the world of animals fascinate him. The world of humans is something else ... Its size, its fragility, its tendency to cry regularly, give it a "weak" attitude in the eyes of the outside world. As the opposites attract, he quickly discovers at his expense what it is to be strong. His nature does not allow him to defend himself and by dint of blows, he will say goodbye to the outside world to live in his inner world, his body.
He discovers that he is composed of skin, forms, thoughts, emotions, sensations, fluids, odors and noises. With this sensitivity, he is quickly disturbed, afraid of the intensity of his thoughts, he is uncomfortable with unpleasant sensations, and oppressed by the intensity of his emotions. The outside world seemed violent to him, but his inner world was just as violent. Then he starts to draw to forget everything. Life passes by, and by dint of being uncomfortable inside and out, he decides by his majority to go to the world of Alice in the land of Wonders. He is not afraid, he has nothing to lose and then discovers another place, in which the outside world and that of the...

▱ French high-school diploma in Science
▱ 2 years university degree with honors in Cultural mediation and Communication
▱ 5 years in Beaux Arts Academy diploma with honors

▱ Bac Scientifique
▱ DEUG avec Mention en Mediation Culturelle et Communication
▱ DNSEP avec Mention aux Beaux Art