Biography
ENG – Jean-Baptiste Maitre (1978, France), works in Paris and Amsterdam.
Maitre develops works creating relationships between painting, cinema and sculpture in order to reinvent the way audiences gain access to information.
His recent production constitute the attempt of the artist to create a different cinema as a tool to meditate on early XXIth century public events, such as the looting of the Iraq Museum of Baghdad on april 9th 2003. Maitre’s meditative cinema technique is inspired by 1960s filmmaker Paul Sharit’s logic of frozen film frames, and 1940s film maker Len Lye’s aesthetic. Abstract patterns are created through chance based brushstrokes compositions as well as patterns inspired by industrial gear wheels (Chevron Patterns) and the representation of circles in Buddhist culture.
Recent shows include Le Poète la Cité la Machine, at Palazzo dell’Arte dei Giudici e Notai, Florence; MANDALA RÉPUBLIQUE, Gallery Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam; It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it, Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam; CODEX, Wattis Institute for contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Stripe Paintings, La Salle De Bains art center, Lyon; This is what I meant, P/////AKT, Amsterdam; and Post-Sculpture with Bruce McClean, Galerie 1m3, Lausanne.
IT –Jean-Baptiste Maitre (1978, Francia), lavora tra Parigi e Amsterdam.
Maitre sviluppa il proprio lavoro creando relazioni tra pittura, cinema e scultura al fine di reinventare il modo in cui il pubblico accede alle informazioni.
La sua produzione recente costituisce il tentativo di creare un cinema diverso come strumento per meditare sugli eventi pubblici dei primi del XXI secolo, come il saccheggio dell’Iraq Museum di Baghdad il 9 aprile del 2003. La tecnica del cinema meditativo di Maitre si ispira alla logica del congelamento dei fotogrammi del regista degli anni ’60 Paul Sharit e all’estetica di Len Lye, regista degli anni ’40. I suoi pattern astratti sono creati attraverso composizioni di pennellate casuali o ispirati alle ruote degli ingranaggi industriali (Chevron Patterns) e alla rappresentazione dei cerchi nella cultura buddista.
Tra le sue mostre recenti: It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it, Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam; CODEX, Wattis Institute for contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Stripe Paintings, La Salle De Bain art center, Lione; This is what I meant, P/////AKT di Amsterdam; e Post-Sculpture con Bruce McClean, Galerie 1m3 di Losanna.
born in 1978, FR, works in Amsterdam
representation gallery Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
