Matthieu Martin

two thousand and fourteen

Sprayed

2011 – 2016

« Matthieu Martin presents (…) a series of magazines devoted to graffiti had their double page illustrations “covered up” with solid areas of grey paint, in the same way that authorities, town councils and others tend to wipe out urban tags. He used the tints of grey available among graffiti artists’ spray paints. This monochrome intervention is a visual break from the multicolour, expressive overflowing of urban graffiti. After having done graffiti as a teenager, Matthieu Martin returns to the subject in a more conceptual way, in the manner of Raphaël Zarka or Cyprien Gaillard. There is also a notion of toying with graffiti codes: this usually tough and protesting universe is the object of playful interpretations, fictitious “covering ups” or savage restorations. What one must re- member is this aesthetic interplay.»
Jean Max Colard

 

Sans Titre (Grid)
2013
Spray paint on magazin
60 x 21 cm (unframed)
Collection FRAC Normandy Caen

 

Walls allover
2013
Spray paint on magazin
42 x 29,7 cm (unframed)
Private collection

 

Handstyle
2013
Spray paint on magazin
29,7 x 21 cm (unframed)
Private collection

 

Meeting of style
2015
Spray paint on magazin
82 x 29,7 cm (unframed)
Private collection

 

Sans titre
2013
Spray paint on magazin
42 x 29,7 cm (unframed)

 

Bombing
2013
Spray paint on magazin
42 x 29,7 cm (unframed)