Mathieu Lévesque

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At a first glance, Lévesques' paintings may seem absurd. They are sprinkled of icons and symbols, spots and lines in floating and exploded compositions. As graffiti accumulations, those signs share a tensed existence in the compositions, without caring about the contiguous elements of their environment. They are individualistic icons. Their anarchic coexistence is almost exempt of communication, as the urban citizens who are crossing each other without a look.

Taking shape with a clashing blend of styles and languages, his pictures are painted with a wide range of materials. Intertwining randomness and forwardness, the worthy oil and the trivial sticker are applied with the same sake on the surface. Then, the range of signage Lévesque is producing is scattered upside down in the pictorial space. Thus, he creates shambles, chaos and divagations which emanate puzzling, and often cacophonous atmospheres.

However, no matter the density of Lévesque compositions, his intention is to give form to the elusive character of thought; thus insisting on the distractions produced by the interferences between ideas : the memory of a dream fading away, the confusion when facing an idea held on the tip of one’s tongue, the lack of concentration caused by stress, psychedelic hallucination, hysteric delirium of the fool, Alice’s fall into Wonderland : here are the many fugitive states of mind the artist tends to represent – and paradoxically to define.

 
2011C Magazine | Emily Rosamond
 Pavillon levé (dix jours à vaincre les mortes-eaux) | 25 décembre
 
2010Un Show de Mot'Arts.net |
 Profil d'artiste: Mathieu Levesque | 15 avril
 
2009 | Jason Foumberg
 Loaded: Hunting Culture in America | 6 avril
 
| Karsten Lund
 Loaded: Hunting culture in America |
 
Tableau dlicieux

Mathieu Lévesque @ Inter

Monday, March 12th, 2012

Mathieu Lévesque's Tableau délicieux was featured in the last Inter, art actuel magazine issue. A summary of the magazine is available here.
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Mathieu Lévesque @ Encan/Exposition Le lieu

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

From December 13th to 18th, a Mathieu Lévesque piece will be part of the Auction/exhibition at Le lieu, artists-run center in Quebec City. The auction take place on December 15th and all profits go to the artists themselves !
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Mathieu Lévesque @ UQAM Auction 2011

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Mathieu Lévesque is part of the third edition of the UQAM auction with works from MFA students that will take place at CDEX December 1st. You can have a look at the online catalogue with description of all the works put to auction.

 
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Mathieu Lévesque @ C Magazine

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

An article has just been published by C Magazine about a collective exhibition in which Mathieu Lévesque had take part last summer at Circa Art Contemporain. You can read the article about the exhibition Pavillon levé (dix jours pour vaincre les mortes-eaux) [Raised Flag (Ten Days to Defeat the Neap Tides)] here.
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Lévesque & Reis in the drawings show curated by Réal Lussier

Saturday, April 9th, 2011

Mathieu Lévesque and Natalie Reis are both part of the drawings exhibition "Dessin à dessein" curated by Réal Lussier, presented at Galerie Lilian Rodriguez from April 9 to May 19th.

Mathieu Lévesque @ UQAM's auction

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Works of Mathieu Lévesque will be on sale at the second edition of the UQAM's auction  on December 2nd 2010 starting at 18h30 and ending at 22h00.