Mathis Collins

Mathis Collins creates works ranging from wood sculptures to installations and performances. Central to the artist's work are concepts and understandings of transmission, apprenticeship, craft, social practice, and the figure of the participant. The figure of the clown is his alter ego on which many of his paintings, performances, and objects are based, drawing on folk arts and traditions. His wooden sculptures often depict imaginary scenes from the suppression of street theater at the end of the 17th century.

Crèvecœur, founded in 2009 by Axel Dibie (born 1981) and Alix Dionot-Morani (born 1979), located in the Belleville area (eastern Paris) has, since its creation, presented artists from France and the rest of the world whose different practices question current conditions for producing images and objects. The gallery sees itself as a body that supports its artists in the various stages of production, demonstration and dissemination of their practice. Through its work inside 3 gallery spaces — a 160 sq.m. space in Eastern Paris (20e) with natural light that can host ambitious exhibitions; and two spaces in the historic centre of Paris (7e) through the co-creation, since 2015, of a new alternative fair called Paris Internationale; through a publishing house called oe publishing books by represented and invited artists; and through support for production of the institutional shows of the represented artists, Crèvecœur is an entity which aims to adapt, in an organic way, to the challenging systems that contemporary artists experience today. ...