Mathias Euwer | Velours (Velvet) #1, #2, 2017 - 2022

For HOT MESS Mathias Euwer is presenting three works.

Velours seems at first glance just a black monochrome presented in a classical way, then appearing little by little as a complex and changing object, which replaces precisely the colour black by the one of dark. Neither an image nor really a sculpture, the dark flat is composed of about two hundred cutter blades with their edges positioned outwards. Strictly speaking, there is no surface but an ensemble of about two hundred edges/lines. The small variations of dark are a result from the small variations of sharpening. As the light goes into the work it is its loss : its incapacity to be reflected and to emerge again, that results in the « non-color » black, that is to say the relative absence of light. In this way the image/object can be viewed as a magnification : it displays at our view scale what happens at the microscopic scale. 

Mathias Euwer is a multidisciplinary artist. Sciences and physics in particular, are a recurring source of reflection and perspective in his work. With a strong attention to materials and craftsmanship, Euwer crystallises his fascination in a spontaneous and sensitive way through sculptures and installations which often engage the viewer’s own perception and imagination. Through precise, often extreme, engineered or handcrafted sculptures, he paradoxically points the blurry, the elusive. Since 2012 he has made the question of edge, of limit, increasingly central to his artistic practice.

Mathias Euwer (b.1986 in Paris) received a BA in Applied Sculpture (Metal) at the ENSAAMA (Paris) in 2007, and an MA in Fine Art/Sculpture from the School of Art & Design Berlin-Weissensee in 2015. He exhibited his work in Paris, Berlin, New York, London, Mexico City, Milan. Recent exhibitions include: 'Curatorial Part de Deux – Artists of the working arts', Gewölbekeller, Gewerbehof KönigStadt, Berlin (2022), 'Plans sur la comète', Spoiler, Berlin (2020), 'Entkunstung | Verkunstung', Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin (2019), 'If the Earth had a flag, the Moon would have to be on it', Aunt Linda, Berlin (2016), 'Standard International #2 Post Spatial Devices', Geisberg, Berlin (2015).