Wolfgang Matuschek

After studying architecture, Wolfgang Matuschek went on to study sculpture and painting. Matuschek's drawings, with their rigorous lines inherited from the techniques of architectural drawing, are full of insights. They are often made of fantastical geometries, steeped in enigmatic detail, but applied with such extreme sensitivity that it's hard to put them down once you've seen them. The drawings represent either a vanished world or the artist's fascination for the creation process of fictional characters.

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. ...