XXIV 33 212 (Diptych)
Painting
Year: 2024
Edition: Unique
Technique: Acrylic and varnish on canvas
Framed: No
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Pierre Muckensturm's [se croire carré] series, begun in 2023, is exemplified by this striking painting.
The large-scale minimalist work features bold black geometric forms against a white background, with strategically placed white rectangular elements creating a dynamic visual tension. The composition's deliberate asymmetry and imperfect geometry challenge the notion of the perfect square, traditionally revered in constructed art.
Muckensturm celebrates the beauty of imperfection rather than mathematical precision through this meticulous arrangement of contrasting forms.
The artwork's substantial scale amplifies its visual impact, inviting viewers to contemplate the tension between our human desire for perfection and life's natural irregularities. Just as we might try to "be square" in society, this artwork demonstrates that our "failed attempts" at conformity give us character and vitality.
Through its balanced yet imperfect geometry, the work conveys a powerful message: embrace incompleteness rather than pursuing an unattainable ideal.
Pierre Muckensturm is a French abstract painter and print maker. His visual language is one of harmony, calm and timelessness built around softly textured surfaces and a muted, black and white palette. Born in Strasbourg, France, he currently lives and works in Colmar.
Education
Muckensturm attended Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg. Later, while studying to become a teacher, he befriended Jean Jérôme, a university art instructor, who mentored him and inspired him to enroll in painting workshops. In 2010, he was an artist in residence at Boribana Museum of Contemporary Art in Dakar, Senegal.
Technique
In 2004, Muckensturm began working with oil on large scale canvases. He isolates gestural elements, enlarging them on the picture plane to explore their presence in relation to the surrounding emptiness. He develops the paintings methodically, exploring the process of transformation the canvas undergoes in the painting process. Working the surface into a texture that belies its age, Muckensturm achieves a balance of intensity and tranquility. Since 2010, he has also added printmaking to his oeuvre. The engraving and printing process allows him to further explore notions of time and perspective. In his prints, he begins with gestural marks, examining them in detail, transforming them gradually, exploring how they communicate differently as he alters their size, shape, depth, magnitude and orientation over time.
Inspiration
Muckensturm is inspired by the concepts of calmness, constancy and temporality. His work visually expresses a sense of harmony with time. Initially a figurative painter, he discovered abstraction in 2004 on a visit to Notre Dame du Haut, a Modernist chapel in Ronchamp, France, designed by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, otherwise known as Le Corbusier. The simplicity of its forms brought Muckensturm a feeling of tranquility. He began seeking ways to directly to directly express how felt that day. His search brought him into contact with the work of Julius Bissier, whose simple, organic, gestural brushstrokes, evocative of Taoist painting techniques, also communicate a sense of calmness. In 2010, during an artist residency in Africa, Muckensturm became inspired by the differences in how time is observed in Senegalese culture, versus the culture in which he was raised. He has since been exploring these various ideas in his work, expressing calmness and an open ended view of time.
Collections
Muckensturm's work is included in multiple institutional collections, including that of the Museum of Fine Arts in Liège, Belgium, the Boribana Museum of Contemporary Art, Dakar, Senegal, and the Art Library of the City of La Roche-sur-Yon, France.
Exhibitions
Muckensturm has exhibited extensively in Europe, as well as in the United States and Canada.
Galleries
Galerie La Ligne . Zürich . CH
Ideelart Gallery . London . GB
Galerie Gaïa . Nantes . F
Galerie Michèle Champetier . Cannes . F
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