Nicolas Pincemin (born 1976) graduated from Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg and Aix-en-Provence Visual Arts University. He took part to various group shows (Fondation Vasarely and Arborescence Festival in Aix-en-Provence). A solo show will take place in September at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Istres (Bouches-du-Rhône, France), followed by a group show at the Museum in Gap (Hautes Alpes, France).

"Nicolas Pincemin’s paintings read as altered interpretations of a reality that would not be. Sabotage : hidden models appear truncated in the background of an overlapped and annihilating surface. Figures, though anti-narrative, conjure up fables and are pretexts to the painter’s gestural : extractions, reuses, camouflages.
As images are born from their distance to what’s visible, in his slight touch, the artist overplays the deception that goes with representation : Illusory versimilitude and truncated analogy through rigged compositions, unbalanced spaces, unfaithful restitutions, chimerical points of view. What lives underneath now faces us and it is "an image in the process of visibility with a tear appearing"¹. Nicolas Pincemin unfolds his alphabet between tension and twist : focus zone, blended copy/paste, intentional drips, negative layers, saturated projections, virtual retouch and second thought. All of these are blinding breaks, freeing obstructions, "sombre devices" that "dig and bruise the visible"²(…)

Leïla Quillacq

¹ G.Didi Huberman, Devant l’image, 1990, Collection "Critique", Les Editions de Minuit
² Idem