Matthieu Venot

1979 born in Brest (F). He 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.