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Thierry ETHEVE (born 1969, Saint-Pierre, Reunion Island, FRANCE) is a French artist.

"Each one of us is an universe” ; Fascinated by " the universal movement which animates the substance and the life", he seeks himself through surrealist drawings which will become, time after time, more abstract, impressed by freedom, but especially a perpetual search for the existence explanation.

Teatcher since 1990, he continues his pictorial experiment. The pure forms of Brancusi allure him, just as works of Dali or the “action painting” of Hans Hartung. But Pierre Soulages, for the elementarity of his paintings, or Jackson Pollock, for the place he grants for the coincidence, influence his approach more. Sometimes rigid and geometrically organized, sometimes smooth and overflowing of sensuality, his paintings seek to collect the essence of the life, where the movements - infinitely small with the infinitely great, matter with the spirit - are almost identical, " making us raise, beside the particles, bricks of which is made up cosmos, a kind of will seeming to guide their ways and their assembly". He's thus directed more towards the abstraction with a broad interest for questions of a metaphysical nature: his works, appearing his perception of the dynamic and impalpable construction of cosmos, result from his own interrogations on the being: the existence, the conscience, the borderline between the inert the living, the passage of the matter to the life, the concept of the eternity, knowledge ;  interrogations whose neither science or metaphysics will be able completely to give the answers.

Autodidact, pencils, pastel, and gouache were its first techniques. Since 1985 he uses more and more the Indian ink which gives place to a series on paper, initially all in roundnesses and fluidity, diffuse and soft, then with another series, primarily geometrical, where white squares are detached on black funds intermingled with lines and circles which it does not give up. In 1993, with oil-base paint Thierry makes a return in a flexibility of the lines and a palette heats. In 1998 he accepts a collective exhibition with Source Vive (Reunion Island, France). As of 2001 are born some charcoals that he affectionate for softness and light.

His first personal exhibition, that he dedicated to his father, was presented at the Mediatheque du Tampon in october 2009. "Metaphysics I" will be thus presented, completely or partially, in various public places and artistic places of Reunion Island until August 2010. "Metaphysics II" is already programmed.

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