Matthieu Venot

1979 born in Brest (F). Lives and works in Brest.

Mat­thieu Venot star­ted taking pic­tures in 2009, but it was not until the ear­ly part of 2014 that he left his job as a sound engi­neer and began wor­king full-time as a artist. Venot is a self-taught pho­to­gra­pher who turns archi­tec­tu­ral details of his home­town into clean­ly com­po­sed mini­ma­list images that stand out from a deep blue sky. He plays with win­dows, ban­nis­ters, bal­co­nies, and simi­lar ele­ments of the urban envi­ron­ment, com­bi­ning them with the pal­lid blue of the sky to create pure and ori­gi­nal com­po­si­tions. Exclu­ding the Bre­ton grey­ness, the pho­to­gra­pher trans­forms the town into pas­tel colo­red images. An impor­tant part of his style is that he only pho­to­graphs by great wea­ther condi­tions. With seve­ral shows in dif­ferent cities of Europe he convin­ced his audience and also won prices for his archi­tec­tu­ral pho­to­gra­phic art­works. The Foxx gal­le­ry pre­sents him in the exhi­bi­tion „French Pop“ for the first time in Switzerland.

Limi­ted pig­ment prints on Hah­nemühle fine art paper with certificates.

Repre­sen­ted by the Foxx gal­le­ry since 2018.

Prism (sans titre III), pig­ment pres­sure on Hah­nemühle fine art paper, 50 x 50 cm