Mathilde Roussel

Mathilde Roussel
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[email protected]
www.mathilderoussel.com
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Mass production, crop #3
2015, collage on paper, 43,5 x 61 cm
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Mass production, crop #4
2015, collage on paper, 17 x 16 cm
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Atlas
2016, steel, direct print on metal, sand bags.
Around 300 x 600 x 350 cm.
Work in progress.
Found directly on instagram and google images,
photographs of bodies modeled to reach an ideal
of perfection, are enlarged and cut into fragments.
These pieces of bodies are presented in space as
an ensemble of panels put together in a chaotic
way. The installation refers to antique sculpture
and ruins of an other era.
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Pán
2015, graphite and collage on paper, 35,5 x 28 cm
Through collation of fragments and collage, this
ensemble of drawings puts in relation various realms
of forms. Human, plants, animal and mineral are
combined through symbiotic connections.
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Pán #1
2015, graphite and collage on paper, 35,5 x 28 cm
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Pán #2
2015, graphite and collage on paper, 35,5 x 28 cm
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Volume #1
2015, cement, lime water, metal, drop by drop
system, weels, 270 X 100 x 70 cm
Work in progress.
The installation Volume #1 allows us to visualize the
role played by water in the formation of calcareous
concretions. Drop after drop, water forms a sediment
and progressively fixes the trace of its passage by
adding a layer of matter to the pre-existing form. In
this way the installation continues its formation and
evoluates everytime it is reactivated.
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Training Session, level 6
2014, watercolor and graphite on paper,
collage, 90 x 65 cm
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Training Session, level 1
2014, watercolor and graphite on paper,
collage, 50 x 65 cm
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Mass production
2015, paper pulp, metal pipes, rubber mats,
between 290 cm and 395 cm high.
Exhibition view at the Invisible Dog Art Center,
The Glass House, New York, US.
This ensemble of sculptures and collages is constituted around a research that established a parallel
between hydroponic cultures of vegetable in greenhouses and muscula production in bodybuilding. The
installation engages a reflexion around our obsession
for calibration and our efforts of standardisation in
several domains of society.
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Training session, protein #1
2015, artificial bodybuilding protein on paper,
35,5 x 28 cm
Training session, protein #1 drawings were made
by drawing with artificial bodybuilding protein on
the reverse of the paper. During drying, the protein
retracts and cracks, forming a network of wrinckles
similar to an aged skin.
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Training Session
2015, paper pulp, cardboard, glue, metal wire,
tubular steel structure, 150 X 60 x 40 cm.
Exhibition view at Galerie du Haut Pavé, Paris.
This projects imagines a vocabulary of forms and a
reflection around the cult of the ideal body. Fragments
of muscles are made in paper pulp constituting a
malleable flesh that hardens as it dries.
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Training Session (detail)
2015, paper pulp, cardboard, glue, metal wire,
tubular steel structure, 150 X 60 x 40 cm.
Exhibition view at Galerie du Haut Pavé, Paris.
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Training Session (detail)
2015, paper pulp, cardboard, glue, metal wire,
tubular steel structure, 150 X 60 x 40 cm.
Exhibition view at Galerie du Haut Pavé, Paris.
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Training Session
2015, paper pulp, cardboard, glue, metal wire,
tubular steel structure, 29 x 84 x 40 cm.
Exhibition view at Galerie du Haut Pavé, Paris.
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Studio view, Cité Montmartre, Paris, 2015
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Peau #1
2013, rubber, graphite, thread, metal nails
350 X 250 x 10 cm
Sections of thin sutured rubber are deployed and
suspended against a wall. Both flexible and rigid, it
is the weight of the material that confers its form. This
ambiguous material embodies in front of us like a
living skin that dries and slowly fossilizes.
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Peau #1 (detail)
2013, rubber, graphite, thread, metal nails
350 X 250 x 10 cm
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Reste #17
2012, incised paper, graphite, 223 X 112 cm
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Mue
2010-2016, tissu paper, glue,
60 x 50 x 20 cm each
Mues are casts of my body made every year with tissu
paper. They are produced directly on my body like a
performance, then folded like clothings and preserved
in boxes. These imprints constitute an archive of a
body’s trandformations through time.
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Mue 2012
2010-2016, tissu paper, glue,
60 x 50 x 20 cm each
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Mathilde Roussel
Born in 1983.
Lives and works in Paris
Solo exhibitions
2015 Mass Production, curated by Gaelle Porte, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, US
Training Session, curated by Gaelle Porte, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, US
Cuirasse, Galerie du Haut Pavé, Paris, FR
2012 Anatomia Botanica, Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, Nashville, US
Group exhibitions
2016 Petits Formats, Galerie du Haut Pavé, Paris, FR
The Drawing Hand, Gallery Magda Danysz, Shanghai, CN
La Main qui dessinait toute seule, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, FR
2015 Disparitions, Honoré, Galerie rueVisconti, Paris, FR
A l’ombre d’Eros, curated by Marie Deparis and Magali Briat-Philippe, Monastère Royal de Brou, FR
Ce n’est pas une heure pour les histoires de revenants, commissariat Yannick Langlois, Villa Belleville, Paris, FR
2014 Solstices, Galerie ACY & Galerie DDC, Paris, FR
Paper Biennial 2014, Museum Rijswijk, The Hague, NL
FID Prize 2014, Drawing Box Gallery, Tournai, BL
2013 No limits just edges, Café A / Maison de l’architecture, Paris, FR
D Dessin, Foire de dessin contemporain, Galerie DDC, Paris, FR
Kama e Sesso, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, IT
2012 Series of Lines, Galerie DDC exhibition at Laptop, Paris, FR
Chic Dessin, Foire de dessin contemporain, Galerie DDC, Paris, FR
La Poétique de l’espace, Galerie DDC at Galerie Laurent Mueller, Paris, FR
2011 Prix de Sculpture de la MAIF, nominated artist, Le Bal, Paris, FR
Matisse was there, Galerie DDC at Marc Lenot, Paris, FR
56ème Salon de Montrouge, curated by Stéphane Corréard, FR
2010 Crossing the Line FIAF Festival, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, US
Minds over Matter: Botanicals, The Old American Can Factory, Brooklyn, US
Brooklyn Utopias: Farm City, Old Stone House Gallery, Brooklyn, US
The Last Supper Salon, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, US
2009 Dumbo Art Under The Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, US
Awards and residencies
2015 Artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York, US
2014 Nominated for FID Prize 2014
2013-2014 Résidence à la Villa Belleville / Point Ephémère, Paris, FR
2012 Artist-in-residence at Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, Nashville, US
2011 Nominated for Prix de Sculpture de la MAIF
Teaching and Lectures
2015 Jury for Undergraduate students, Ecole Duperré, Paris
2012 Visiting Artist, Watkins College of Art, Nashville, US
2011 Visiting Artist, lecture and workshop Graduate Students, University of Iowa, US
Jury for Graduate Students, ESAG Penninghen, Paris, FR
2010 Lecture on the Printed Image, Académie Charpentier, Paris, FR
Sculpture and Photography workshops, French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), NY
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Publications
Catalogues:
2015 A l’ombre d’Eros, exhibition catalogue, Monastère Royal de Brou, FR
Ce n’est pas une heure pour les histoires de revenants, limited edition, text by Yannick Langlois, Villa Belleville, Paris
2014 Highlike, art book
The Philosopher’s Plant, an Intellectual Herbarium by Michael Marder, Columbia University Press, NY
2013 Paper Biennial 2014, exhibition catalogue, Museum Rijswijk, The Hague, NL
Kama e Sesso, exhibition catalogue, Triennale di Milano, IT
2012 Series of Lines, cexhibition catalogue, Galerie DDC, FR
High Touch, art book, Gestalten editions, DL
La Poetique de l’Espace, exhibition catalogue, galerie DDC à la Galerie Laurent Mueller, Paris, FR
2011 56ème Salon de Montrouge, exhibition catalogue, FR
Press:
2016 R.a-r, Revue aller-retour, text by Sandra Doublet
Les Regardeurs, interview by Jean de Loisy on France culture radio
2015 Clocktower Radio, interview by Jake Nussbaum
Les Carnets de la Création, interview by Aude Lavigne on France culture radio
2013 Veine Magazine
2012 The Huffington Post, September 18
Art Papers, July/August
Nashville Scene
No71
Nashville Arts
Lunettes Rouges, Le Monde art blog by Marc Lenot
Deratisme #24
Tra natura e cultura, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
2011 Lunettes Rouges, Le Monde art blog by Marc Lenot
Beaux Arts Magazine
L’Objet d’Art
2010 The New York Times
Flavorpill, Septembre 2010
Time Out New York
Drawing Paper #2
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