At the intersection of art and design, the french painter Geoffroy Pithon tries to bring together non-traditional means of communication with graphic experiments. Through this eclectic porosity he develops his very own language that makes colours, shapes and figures dance in an energetic choir. The artist creates immersive abstract paper painting installations, which make viewer experience a fantastic, colourful world reminiscent of plant, animal and underwater aesthetics or dense jungles. Geoffroy’ s paintings make us experience moments in nature: potentially connecting us with creation in an almost spiritual manner.

Geoffroy Pithon has a unique strength for developing large installation works on paper. Here in a structured, yet free and impulsive manner his manual and digital paintings find themselves in a lively dialogue. The title of the show „Wide eyes instrument” suggests the bird-eye view Geoffroy Pithon takes in his artistic process. He analyses and discovers qualitative excerpts of his large scale paintings, which encourage him to focus on a specific segment of his creations. These segments are cut, selected and reworked to smaller, more intense, collage works that are then recomposed out of various parts of the original painting.

The works of post-impressionists like Henri Matisse or Pierre Bonnard inspire Geoffroy Pithon’s art  – the intense colouring, their abstract imagery and their symbolic content are virtuously reflected in a contemporary context. Toulouse Lautrec and David Hockney are also two of his big inspirational sources, especially through the combination of different artistic techniques. 

The exhibition „Wide eyes instrument” shows the artist’s creative working methods in all formats and invites us to look dreamily from the distance to the details.

Geoffroy Pithon (1988) is a graphic designer and artist based in Nantes, France. He studied graphic design and started his career as an artist in several institutional exhibitions – for example at the photo cinema studio Marseille Institution, at the Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud Museum of Modern Art, at Les Quinconces-L’Espal Scène Nationale du Mans and at the Kiosk Center d’Art de Mayenne. His unique approach brought him to an ongoing creative collaboration with the french luxury brand Hermès.