Mathis Collins
Wet French + Wet French 2
date_from 21/01 16/04/2016
WET FRENCH
opening January 21
Wet french is Mathis Collins second solo exhibition in Brussels following his 2007 Ceremony, a chocolate box in the shape of a funeral crown displayed in V-tro's store front.
Wet French is an echo to Dry french, Collins 2015 solo show at the Palais de Tokyo where people where pictured sittting at a café terrasse transforming their foods and beverages into statues.
Dry French came from a 1970's series of english newspaper advertisment for the french vermouth company Noilly-Prat, picturing in documentary like photographies young couples chatting, flirting, kissing in cafés. A few others depict people alone, a women in a market, a man smoking.
Wet French exposes the solitary figure of the waiter and his customer, both melancholic when confronted to the dynamic group of jolly amateur artists that in turn draw cartoons of them.
Wet French is a liquid state that washes the terrasse where every morning I read love letters and write grant applications.
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WET FRENCH 2
opening April 17
Wet French 2 is Mathis Collins second exhibition at Levy.Delval gallery dedicated to the production of 'Poulbot-3D the movie'. The show envisions the future choreography of this graphic animation, set in a Paris dreamt by Chantal Goya and constructed on this occasion at Treize (Paris). The introduction to the the third chapter of the study, for which a release date has not yet been announced, is also composed of a series of drawings produced off-camera after Collins performance.
