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Thierry Ethève was selected to take part in the 9th edition of the Florence Biennale, Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea (45 artists had represented France for the Florence Biennale in 2009)

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. : : :    "MetaPhysics"

The notion of existence, the continual rebuilding of time and matter, and the relationship between humans and knowledge are some of the recurring themes in the collection "Metaphysics" of Thierry Ethève.

“To paint the chaos appearing in all forms of being and the universe, to express the similarities between the biological development, the spiritual development, and the structure of the cosmos, is to recall the perpetual limits of the human knowledge : is chaotic only what man cannot understand.” “Metaphysics” is thus a discussion between the various questions it poses, and the responses it elicits to help our instable, intellectual needs.

Portfolio Thierry Etheve (pdf)

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Thierry Ethève is fascinated by science, namely astronomy, and has a passion for traveling and other cultures. He acts on textures, forms and colors to transport us in and out of our conscience, between reflection, meditation and discovery. 

. : : :        November 22d to 27th 2011

Thierry ETHEVE at the GRAND PALAIS

PARIS, FRANCE

Filmography and music : Thierry Etheve  © 2009

. : : :    The spirit

 T.E

: : : Technique, movement

   Inspiration for Thierry is necessary: He does'nt paint on order. More than a project, it's a state of mind which is at the base of his work, an open sensitivity on his feeling. His painting wants to melt in the same movement, that which animates the cosmos and the living world. It is speaking  construction, architecture of forms and colors.

   In a first phase, the broad outlines are traced on the canvas with the brush, or textured funds, containing marble powder, are applied with knife. Sometimes, the fabric is pasted in expressive folds. Then, Often, the fabrics are completely wet and receive by draining a painting which is diffused by chance. Then  come prints, scrapings and cracks, dryings after dryings, deed after deed. Yes, technically, Thierry Ethève's works result partly from the coincidence he regards as inappropriately named.

   When the work is completed, as for a newborn, comes then the moment to name it, with a name that the false chance still chose, made with syllabic assemblies which call out the painter and resound such as the single and original contents of the work. The idea which generated the work, and which animated in so many gestures the entire painting, generates an explicit subtitle: a shared secrecy.

   Thierry Etheve's works are universalists from the glance they want to make relate to the interrogations around our singular existence, an universe itself.

   In "Métaphysique", in this direction, the abstraction which is there, on painted surfaces, textured, scraped, impressed traces, is perhaps not total: somewhere, in his creations, the artist, out of time and of the universe, makes show through a strong message, invites to the reflexion, to a certain meditation, and makes appear, through the colors and the forms, a metaphysical vision of the world, universal movement common to all the matter, organized or not, vision which ineluctably inclines us to realize the splendour of life.

Artrinet work analysis of  Thierry ETHEVE