Mathieu Lévesque

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Canadian. Born in Sept-Iles, Canada (1977).
Lives and works in Montréal, Canada.

Mathieu Lévesque’s research focuses on the elementary constituents of painting. He is fascinated by the frontier areas between painting, sculptural and architectural disciplines. This interest stems from his past as a graffiti artist, when many years ago he was working directly in unexpected locations, outside of his studio. That experience led him to naturally tend towards in situ interventions in the gallery space.

His paintings – mostly shaped canvas – are simple in appearance. He barely uses paint, mostly constructing them. Lévesque is constantly looking to push the boundaries of painting while reducing as much as possible the possibilities to get inside of it. This approach has consequently led him to use the in situ intervention as a mean to address the dependence of painting towards the wall. Therefore, he wonders what happens – or could happen – outside those boundaries, and the kind of expansion that painting can take in the space.

Lévesque approaches painting as an object, both concrete and material, of which he enjoys disrupting the traditional stages of development and basic components. He is especially interested by the very action of applying color onto the support, as a basic painting operation. His working method is based mainly on action, featuring the process in itself, playing with the painter’s skills – savoir-faire – as much as the choice of letting go – laisser-faire.

Graduate of the University du Québec à Montreal, Mathieu Lévesque is active in Canada and internationally.  He was exhibited all over Quebec, in Toronto, the United States, Germany and Belgium. His work has been seen at Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-St-Hilaire and Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides among others.

 

COLLECTIONS

BMO Financial Group (Toronto, Canada)
TD Bank Group (Toronto, Canada)
Familiprix (Montreal, Canada)
Ville de Montréal (Montréal, Canada)
Ville de Laval (Laval, Canada)
CollectArt (Montréal, Canada)

Curriculum Vitae
Artist’s website

Video Portrait

Portrait video | Mathieu Lévesque from Galerie Trois Points on Vimeo.

Exhibitions

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Mathieu Lévesque
November 4 - December 23, 2017

BF4E

Mathieu Lévesque
October 10 - November 14, 2015

Moonwalkers

Barry Allikas, Chloé Savoy, Eric Simon, Guillaume Clermont, Marigold Santos, Mathieu Lévesque, Paul Brunet
January 11 - February 15, 2014

Puzzle

Mathieu Lévesque
November 17 - December 15, 2012

Éponymies

Alex McLeod, Clint Griffin, Mathieu Lévesque, Max Wyse, Michel Daigneault, Natalie Reis, Nathalie Grimard, Scott Everingham, Sylvain Bouthillette
June 11 - August 20, 2011

Press

  • 2017. 11. 17. - . Mathieu Lévesque @ Trois Points “//////////”, ratsdeville. web | PDF
  • 2017. 11. 07. - . Mathieu Lévesque expose à la Galerie Trois Points, Lien multimédia. web | PDF
  • 2016. 04. 28. - Raphaël Lavoie. Mathieu Lévesque repense les limites de l’art chez Regart, Le journal de Lévis. web | PDF
  • 2015. 07. 25. - Nicolas Mavrikakis. De l’objet à son contexte, Le Devoir. web | PDF
  • 2013. 11. 22. - Geneviève Robichaud. Geneviève Robichaud in Conversation with Benjamin Klein: “Fabrications” a Pop-Up Show, Lemon Hound. web | PDF
  • 2013. 11. 03. - . Picture This: VOLTA NY Electrifies SOHO, ARTE FUSE. web | PDF
  • 2013. 07. 16. - Vincent Marquis. “Off the Wall”: peinture extrême – cadrer le tout at Galerie Trois Points, Belgo Report. web | PDF
  • 2013. 07. 13. - Jérôme Delgado. Peinture, entre l’essence et l’excès, Le Devoir. web | PDF
  • 2013. 03. 19. - M-KOS. Art Marathon: VOLTA NY 2013, MKOS. PDF
  • 2013. 03. 14. - Eloi Desjardins. Art Week NYC 2013; comme si vous y étiez, Un Show de Mot'Arts. PDF
  • 2013. 03. 12. - Matthew Hassell. Hot Artists Make Hot Booths: VOLTA NY Favorites, NYC art parasites. PDF
  • 2013. 03. 08. - Marie-Ève Charron. Le Québec s’illustre à New York par ses galeries d’art, Le Devoir. web | PDF
  • 2013. 03. 07. - Enrico Gomez. Mathieu Lévesque Galerie Trois Points, Volta, New York, March 7 – March 10, 2013, esse. web | PDF
  • 2011. 12. 01. - Emily Rosamond. Pavillon levé (dix jours à vaincre les mortes-eaux), CMagazine. web | PDF
  • 2011. 08. 04. - Nicolas Mavrikakis. Lever l’ancre, Voir. web | PDF
  • 2011. 07. 11. - Bettina Forget. Virtually Open on Mondays: Éponymies at Galerie Trois Points, Belgo Report. web | PDF
  • 2011. 02. 11. - . Mathieu Lévesque @ Trois Points “Gout d’éclats”, ratsdeville. web | PDF
  • 2010. 04. 15. - Eloi Desjardins. Profil d’artiste: Mathieu Lévesque, Un Show de Mot'Arts. PDF
  • 2009. 04. 09. - Jason Foumberg. Loaded: Hunting Culture in America is currently on view at Columbia College, Artseen Chicago. web | PDF
  • 2009. 03. 17. - Alicia Eler. Eye Exam: A Loaded Question, NewcityArt. web | PDF
  • 2008. 08. 23. - Nathalie Côté. Peindre en 2008, Le Soleil. PDF
  • 2008. 08. 21. - Nicolas Mavrikakis. Retour après la pause: culture du réconfort?, Voir. web | PDF
  • 2006. 01. 01. - Henry Lehmann. Young unknowns provide overview of local artistic scene, The Gazette. PDF