Pierre Malphettes
Pierre Malphettes is an Astérides Resident in 1999 and 2000. The archives of Triangle-Astérides do not allow for the determination of the exact dates or the duration of this residency in 1999 and 2000.
Pierre Malphettes was born in 1970 in Paris (FR) and lives and works in Marseille (FR)
Graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Bourges in 1995, Pierre Malphettes began showing his work at the end of the 1990s in numerous group exhibitions. He also held significant solo exhibitions from the 2000s onward, such as Little Odyssey at Espace Paul Ricard in Paris in 2004; Un arbre, un rocher, une source at Buy-sellf - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux in 2006; Sculptures terrestres et atmosphériques at Frac Paca in Marseille in 2009; Terrain vague at Galerie Kamel Mennour in Paris; Paysage avec chute d’eau at Château des Adhémar in Montélimar in 2010; Blanc néon at La Forteresse de Salses in 2013; Optiques limousines at Pointdefuite in Bordeaux in 2017; and L’horizon des particules at Vidéochroniques in Marseille in 2019. Pierre Malphettes’ works have entered various public collections including several Frac collections, the Mac/Val, and the Fonds national d’art contemporain, as well as private collections. Since 2022, Pierre Malphettes has joined the teaching staff at the EESAB (École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne), Quimper campus.
The staging of the real and the poetic treatment of material constraints are central to Pierre Malphettes’ approach. The artist draws from the industrial world and the construction universe to create sculptures that seek to materialize natural phenomena and elements such as rainbows, clouds, and landscapes. Construction materials like tarpaulin or grating are combined with more unexpected elements such as air, light, glass, or even water. This materialization of the immaterial, following a constant metaphor of displacement, leads to the creation of a perceptive and sensory reality, a space between nature and artifice. The resulting poetic and dreamlike potential paradoxically goes hand in hand with a strong visual relationship to matter and an assumed materiality to create effects of reality.