Le Plateau

Maxime Thieffine

05 Apr - 21 May 2017

Vue de la vitrine de Maxime Thieffine, frac île-de-france, l'antenne culturelle, paris, 2017. Photo © Martin Argyroglo
Vue de la vitrine de Maxime Thieffine, frac île-de-france, l’antenne culturelle, paris, 2017. Photo © Martin Argyroglo
Vue de la vitrine de Maxime Thieffine, frac île-de-france, l’antenne culturelle, paris, 2017. Photo © Martin Argyroglo
Vue de la vitrine de Maxime Thieffine, frac île-de-france, l’antenne culturelle, paris, 2017. Photo © Martin Argyroglo
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MAXIME THIEFFINE
5 April - 21 May 2017

Maxime Thieffine produces paintings, volumes, videos, assemblages,etc. by extracting images from his memory, derived from the history of art or popular culture.

He tackles them through a number of different tools with specific qualities, generating forms on various media. He executes, depending on his mood, a hybridisation, an amalgamation of sources, making living organisms of the works, with changing identities.

In the window, two paintings are located opposite one another.The two portraits, associated in a gesture combining their differences, depict androgynous creatures that confront us.