Marc Chevalier ~ Galerie Eva Vautier

Marc Chevalier

Marc Chevalier born in 1967, lives and works in Nice

Marc Chevalier has no particular medium of choice; he loves experimentation.
He uses different fields of expression because his vision of art does not stop at a single medium.

For the artist, a work of art is the combination of all the elements necessary for the viewer to perceive an idea. The idea does not precede the making of the work, but develops during the research for it, and evolves according to a process of actions and feedback between form and content.

What counts for the artist is the conjunction of elements that give meaning. Whether he's sculpting, painting or performing, it's always the intensity of the signifier that guides his gesture. In the same way that his exhibition at the Eva Vautier gallery, Les tableaux n'existent pas, reinvents the vision of painting, Marc Chevalier transforms the codes of art by appropriating mediums and supports to create works combining lyricism and the impulse of gesture.

His practice is protean, with each work inspired by a multi-media approach: from a sculpture comes a drawing, a painting or a performance. Marc Chevalier's work provides the impetus to step back and actively contemplate.

His creative process is scientific and rigorous. To counterbalance a processual practice, Marc Chevalier adds a "decompensatory element" to his installations: a manifesto of meaningful data that enables him to understand his subject and its mechanisms, and to immerse himself totally in his subject. Like her works La fleur qui plaisait tant à mon coeur désolé and Défloraison Rouge-pomme, the tap and legs add a droll touch to the work, a breath of fresh air in the artist's methodical creative process.

By concentrating on a sculpture, he feeds his painting. It's a journey between
disciplines. Sculpture, installation, painting and performance are, for the artist, territories or chapters of the same work, fed by the back-and-forth between mediums. Experimentation enables us to actively enrich our artistic approach, constantly evolving our thinking and our work.

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Main exhibitions at the gallery :

Tables don't exist