Florian & Michael Quistrebert

Florian & Michael Quistrebert work in painting, video and installation. The brothers’ practice is filled with abstract colours, light, textured materials and visual illusions. Their works appropriate the motifs of modern art history while subverting them through optical semblances and movements. The duo’s paintings are always elusive, never showing what they are. They depict abstract angles exploring the seductive and eerie relationship between colour and light. The brothers’ installations are similarly immersive, their 2016 exhibition at Palais de Tokyo featuring a large optical theatre with canvases continuously pivoting and rotating, flickering with tiny LED lights. Eloquent and powerful, the Quistrebert brother’s works continuously playing tricks on one’s senses. ...