PAUL MUGUET
b. 1975, MexicoPaul Muguet studied at the Annecy School of Fine Arts and at the Nîmes Superior School of Fine Arts in France. Through painting and sculpture, Muguet explores what he calls: “the worries, the interests, and the emotions that emerge in a person’s everyday life.” Therefore, references to routine are fundamental in his work, ranging from common thoughts about death, time, and dreams to familiar objects in a person’s daily experiences.
These experiences are inscribed in material cultures whose approaches to color and design are particular. Muguet reactivates the complexity that culture has integrated as a part of its visual normalcy. “Las Secuencias” (2017) and “Petates” (2018) reproduce color patterns of everyday Mexican products (bags, beds, and mats), whose complexity and diversity acquire new dimensions when recreated as paintings. Even if there exists a shared context where the patterns refer to specific objects, they coexist on a personal level, in which those very same objects stop having a shared meaning and achieve a unique one that depends on the spectator. This connection is one of the main motifs of the artist’s research.
Muguet currently lives and works in Mexico City.
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