「松」夏日大展开幕，20家画廊20位艺术家共同呈现“2020”。展期内，我们会逐一为您解读这20位艺术家及其作品，本期带来由HdM画廊推荐的曼纽尔 · 马蒂厄带来的艺术作品。

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关于死亡、性以及时间

如果用三个你认为最准确的词来描述你的作品，你会用哪三个词？大部分艺术家在面对这样的问题时无一例外都会暂时语塞，曼纽尔·马蒂厄同样陷入沉思片刻后缓缓从嘴里说出三个词。

死亡、性、时间。

远观曼纽尔·马蒂厄的作品，肆意狂乱的笔触、混杂的颜色和构图让普通观众很难找到一个切入口与作品平等交流，但又没有人不会被他看似狂乱实则灵巧细腻的艺术语言所吸引。站在作品面前，每一件作品都传递出一种层层叠叠的情感和无数个欲说还休的故事。在马蒂厄看来，艺术是用来联系人与人之间感情的产物，如果可以用语言尽述的事情，就没有必要再用绘画语言二次转达。为什么要画画呢？就是要引起观者语言之外的情感共鸣，这也间接造成在习惯看展览前言与介绍的观众们面前竖起了一道屏障，但在他看来他的作品更多的是想通过个人的经历和故事，用绘画这种媒介传递一种感受和情绪联通，并没有明确表明某件作品内容具体在“画”什么。

曼纽尔·马蒂厄 假笑 布面综合材料 100x100cm 2020 松美术馆在展作品

近两年国际艺术圈的流行趋势开始加强对非洲艺术、东南亚艺术等非西方国家为主导的当代艺术的关注。作为一个出生于海地，在伦敦求学，现又生活在蒙特利尔的艺术家，曼纽尔·马蒂厄本身具备了多个国家的文化、地域及身份背景，但他作品的观念并没有直接指向他的身份及政治符号，也不倾向成为某一流行政治概念的视觉嫁接，而是时刻保持一种对内的自观，因为一旦在意流行的趋势，自我即将被禁锢，而潮流时时有，却永远会过时。

“创作是我进入多重维度的方式。”马蒂厄曾在自己的社交媒体上这样写到，个人经历、国家历史、学习背景等等因素无一不在慢慢丰富他，这一切杂糅，造就了一个丰富而饱满的曼纽尔·马蒂厄；当描述自己的作品时使用“时间、死亡、性”这三个词也就变得顺理成章：性为万物之源，是自己作为个体和世界整体的一种联系，死亡代表了万物终结，而时间是连接性与死亡的过程，从开始到结束，像一个容器，包容了万物，三者形成一个闭合环，进而构成自我的世界。所以再来看马蒂厄到底在“画什么”，答案不言而喻了。

曼纽尔·马蒂厄 建筑师 布面综合材料 100x100cm 2020 松美术馆在展作品

艺术就是留下“我们”曾经存在的证据

“海地是世界上最美的国家，拥有美丽的风景和最友善的人，我在这里出生，海地的一草一木在我的人生记忆中永远挥之不去。”面对中国观众，曼纽尔·马蒂厄反反复复地在提到自己家乡时无时无刻不露出坚定的眼神。

提到海地，大部分国人并不十分熟悉，相反无比陌生，通常刻板印象中那是一个遥远又神秘的国度，大家的印象模模糊糊，只有为数不多的人能准确说出它的地理位置处于加勒比海的一个岛国；它曾经被西班牙和法国殖民多年；而勇敢刚毅的海地人民通过两百多年不懈的努力，在这片印第安语中“多山的地方”，终于获得自由；它是拉美第一个独立共和国，也是世界上第一个黑人共和国。

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1986年，彼时正值海地刚刚结束其历史上最黑暗、统治最残暴的“杜瓦利埃（Duvalier）时期”。虽然马蒂厄的父辈们仍处于“后独裁时期”带来的巨大创伤之下，但幸运的马蒂厄就在这样的特殊时期出生在一个开明、和谐的家庭中，他也被以Jacques Roumain于1941年出版的海地古典小说《Gouverneurs de la rosée》（或《Master of the Dew》）中主人公的名字命名——曼纽尔·马蒂厄。在其成长过程中他接受了良好的教育，得到家人最多的宠爱，快乐的童年在一个民主的环境下自然度过，然而当他独立意识和自我意识日益增强后，为了表现自己的“非凡”和“不可一世”，小马蒂厄不可避免的在青少年叛逆年龄高峰期成为一名“问题少年”。当然，这也为他日后成为艺术家埋下了浓重的伏笔，也正是在这无所事事的时期，马蒂厄的叔叔——海地著名艺术家马里奥·本杰明（Mario Benjamin）为他展示了包括戈雅在内的许多艺术家画册，并告诉他“你必须出走，你必须去看看这个世界，你必须去大都会，去大英博物馆，去全世界最好的美术馆，去看更多的艺术，那时你就会知道你是谁，你在做什么。”

自此，曼纽尔·马蒂厄一发不可收拾地在绘画这件事情上表现出超强的天赋。

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“这是一件认定了就会一辈子持续往下继续的事业，我每一天、无时无刻都想画画，画画让我变得充实、平静、不无聊，我惧怕无聊。”马蒂厄在聊到自己热爱的事业时一改私下嬉笑的性格，变得超越实际年龄的严肃。

成年后在伦敦金匠学院学习的经历对马蒂厄来说是一笔宝贵的财富，不仅是见识了世界各国的艺术家在表达艺术时候大相径庭的态度，更因为在伦敦攻读硕士期间，曾在一次摩托车事故中受到重伤，导致记忆力明显下降及短暂的视力减退。这次意外车祸成为他职业生涯的一个转折点，身体的病痛带来紧绷的精神压力，让他的作品开始走向一条越来越深沉且有着厚重历史感的道路，明亮的高饱和度颜色也逐渐被暗沉和多样的绘画技巧所覆盖，曼纽尔·马蒂厄开始更为深入立体地思考个人情感与历史、国家及周遭的关系。他坦言：“艺术就是留下‘我们’曾经存在的证据”。

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谈及未来，曼纽尔·马蒂厄表示虽然未来也会用一些更多元的创作手法去介入更多诸如瓷器、丝绸、装置等媒介的探索，但是毫无疑问，绘画将是他会永远进行的工作。“我还很年轻，拥有无限可能，对于我来说，最好的时候永远都还在即将到来的路上。”

The artist from Haiti——Manuel Mathieu

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About Death, Sex and Time

When faced with Manuel Mathieu's works, the audience can feel its complicated emotion and the countless unspoken stories featured within. In Mathieu’s view, art is the product of a mutual feeling between people; if something can be described in words, then there is no need for painting to convey it again. So, why draw? It is to arouse the emotional sensitivity of the audience beyond language. He believes that his paintings are more likely to convey a feeling and an emotional connection through his personal experience and story, without introducing specific content into them.

Manuel Mathieu Trusted Eyes mixed media on canvas 24x24inches 2018

Manuel Mathieu was born in Haiti, studied in London, and now lives in Montreal. He thus has multiple cultural, regional and philosophical identities. However, the character of his works does not betray his background or his political affiliation, but always maintains a kind of internal self-sufficiency.

‘When I am painting I am trying to access several dimensions’, is what Mathieu wrote on his social media. His personal experience, national history and educational background gradually enrich his work. When asked to describe his work in three words, Manuel Mathieu mentioned ‘time, death and sex’. Sex is the source of everything, it is a connection between oneself as an individual and the whole world. Death represents the end of everything, while time is the process of connection between sex and death. From beginning to end, it is like an omnipotent container. These three elements form a closed loop, and then a world onto themselves So, the answer to what Mathieu is painting is self-evident.

Manuel Mathieu The Jump mixed media on canvas 54x60inches 2018

Art is to leave the evidence that once existed

When it comes to Haiti, most people are not familiar with it, and only know it is a remote and mysterious country. It has been colonized by Spain and France for many years. Through more than 200 years of unremitting efforts, the brave and resolute Haitian people have finally gained their freedom. It is the first independent republic in Latin America and the first black republic in the world.

Manuel Mathieu A revolutionary thought 68x72inches Mixed Media 2018

In 1986, Haiti had just finished the “Duvalier era”, its darkest and most brutal historical period. Although Mathieu's parents were still traumatized by the ‘post dictatorship period’, Mathieu was fortunately born in an enlightened and harmonious family. Named after the protagonist in Jacques Roumain’s 1941 seminal Haitian novel “Gouverneurs de la Rosée” (“Masters of the Dew), Manuel Mathieu received a good education and was dotted on by his family, He spent his happy childhood in a democratic environment. However, when his sense of independence and self-consciousness started to develop, Mathieu inevitably became a ‘problem teenager’ during the peak of adolescence and began to show signs of arrogance. But this laid the ground for his later evolution into an artist. During this time, Mathieu’s uncle, the famous Haitian artist Mario Benjamin, showed him many catalogues including Goya, and told him, ‘you should go out, you have to go and see this world, visit the best art museums in the world to see more art, and then you will know who you are and what you are doing’. Since then, Manuel Mathieu has shown a strong affinity for painting.

Manuel Mathieu Searching for an Idea mixed media on canvas 48x54inches 2019

London’s Goldsmiths College was a precious experience for Mathieu. Not only because he witnessed the different attitudes of artists from all over the world, but also because he was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident while studying for a master's degree, which resulted in memory loss and short-term vision loss. This accident became a turning point in his career. The intense mental pressure brought by his physical illness made his works more and more profound and historical, the bright and highly saturated colours were gradually covered by dark and varied painting techniques. Manuel Mathieu began to think more about the relationship between personal emotion and history, the country and its surroundings. As he said, ‘Art is to leave the evidence that once existed’.

Manuel Mathieu Catharsis No.1 mixed media on canvas 72x68 inches 2019

Manuel Mathieu said that although in the future he seeks to use more media in his art such as porcelain, silk, installation and so on, there is no doubt that painting will remain permanent. ‘I'm still young and have unlimited possibilities. For me, the best time is always about to come.’

曼纽尔 · 马蒂厄介绍

曼纽尔 · 马蒂厄1986年出生于海地，2010年毕业于魁北克大学蒙特利尔分校，获视觉和媒体艺术学士学位，2016年毕业于伦敦大学金史密斯学院，获艺术硕士学位；现工作生活于加拿大蒙特利尔。他在国际上曾有过多次成功展览，包括在伦敦当代艺术研究中心、巴黎大皇宫、华盛顿美洲艺术博物馆等，他的作品也被纳入加拿大和海地的国家收藏中。此外，他的作品也参加过多个重要的艺术博览会，如军械库博览会和纽约弗里兹艺术博览会等。

曼纽尔·马蒂厄是一位介于抽象和表现之间的年轻艺术家。他的作品不仅具有海地民间艺术的热情，也时常弥漫着一种黑暗之美，映射着海地荡漾的历史，而且渗透着培根式绘画的语言张力。这种混杂性具有融超经验（trans-experience）的特点，也彰显了鲜明个性的绘画语言。虽然艺术家以抽象/表现风格的方法编织了看似扭曲的视觉和毛骨悚然的形式，但它们无疑激发了人的好奇心，让人体验存在、变化、关联、生命与死亡，让人冥想跨越文化边界的艺术想象力以及感受表现人性的魅力。

After receiving his Bachelors degree in Visual and Media Arts from the University of Québec in Montréal Mathieu went on to complete his Masters in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths University in London. He has exhibited internationally including at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) and Tiwani Gallery in London, the Grand Palais in Paris, the Museum of the Americas in Washington D.C and the Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago and his work features in national collections in both Canada and Haiti. He has participated in leading art fairs such as the Armory show and Frieze New York and Art Basel Miami. Mathieu lives and works in Montreal, Canada.

Manuel Mathieu is a young artist who is working at the crossroads of abstraction and figuration. His works not only contain the passion of Haitian folk art, but also permeate the language tension of Baconian painting. This kind of cultural interweaving reflects the artist’s transnational experience and characterizes his distinct visual language. Although artists create seemingly distorted visual and thrilling form in an abstract or figurative way they are also able to stimulate the audience's curiosity, allowing them to experience existence, changes, association, life and death. The artist allows the audience to meditate on the artistic imagination across cultural boundaries and also to experience and express the fascination of humanity.

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HdM 画廊是一家致力于推动当代艺术、尤其是中国当代艺术发展的国际画廊。出于对中国艺术的热爱，HdM 画廊的首个空间于 2009 年在北京正式成立，随后分别在杭州与伦敦开设空间。画廊的创始人 Hadrien de Montferrand 先生、投资人 Laurent Dassault 先生以及合伙人 Olivier Hervet 先生均有多年的艺术市场经验并伴随中国艺术生态系统共同成长。

画廊非常荣幸地与近四十余位中国艺术家进行合作。曾推出过如刘小东、毛焰、曾浩及王度等多名重要艺术家的展览，以《创作历史》为主题的革命绘画手稿展览获得国内外美术馆的好评及关注。画廊目前合作及代理的中国艺术家有何岸、陆超、陈晗、李竞雄、朱日新、张书笺、胡为一、钱佳华、彭剑、王一、谢磊和叶凌瀚等，以丰富的架构促进艺术家发展。

随着画廊的发展，从最初只专注于中国当代艺术，慢慢地与多位西方优秀艺术家展开合作。东西方艺术家的对话性展览是 HdM 画廊将中国当代艺术与国际市场相结合的重要模式，这独特的方式让展览拥有更为深远的影响力。基于此，创始人 Hadrien de Montferrand 先生将画廊定义为 “一家拥有强大中国 DNA 的国际画廊”。画廊目前合作及代理的国际艺术家有：李镇雨（Lee Jin Woo）/ 巴尔德莱米·图果（Barthelemy Toguo）/ 克洛德·维尔拉（Claude Viallat）/ 埃利亚斯·克雷斯潘（Elias Crespin）/ 伊万·梅萨克斯等（Ivan Messac）/ 曼纽尔·马蒂厄（Manuel Mathieu）/ 马丁·科勒（Martin Kollar）/ 罗曼·贝尼尼（Romain Bernini）、斯宾塞·斯威尼（Spencer Sweeney）/ 克里斯托弗·奥尔（Christopher Orr）/ 查理斯·桑迪森（Charles Sandison）

为了更好地将代理艺术家推向国际平台并加深观众对其的认识与了解，画廊每年参加国内外多个重要艺术博览会：香港巴塞尔艺术博览会、上海 021 艺术博览会、上海西岸博览会、布鲁塞尔艺术博览会及日内瓦艺术博览会等。

HdM GALLERY is a leading contemporary art gallery with a special focus on Contemporary Chinese Art. It opened its first space in Beijing in 2009 - the success of which lead to the opening of a second space in London in 2018. Founders and partners Hadrien de Montferrand, Laurent Dassault, and Olivier Hervet have garnered over 20 years of experience and understanding of the art market in China, witnessing first-hand China’s rapidly evolving art ecosystem.

HdM GALLERY proudly represents a wealth of emerging Chinese artists amongst which are He An, Chen Han, Lu Chao and Wang Yi, using its expertise to nurture and develop their careers. Exhibiting regularly at prominent fairs such as Art Brussels, Art Geneva and Art Basel Hong Kong, HdM introduces contemporary Chinese artists to a worldwide collector base and broadens the perception, understanding and appreciation of these engaging works.

Since its opening, HdM has evolved to work with noted Western artists as well – often exhibiting their works alongside their Chinese contemporaries, thus creating new cultural connections through this previously unexplored approach. The result is an exhibition program with a unique and thought-provoking fusion of influences which Hadrien de Montferrand defines as ‘international with a strong Chinese DNA’. Western artists such as Romain Bernini, Manuel Mathieu and Barthélémy Toguo are currently represented by HdM GALLERY.

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