Yannick Duriez

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Yannick Duriez, better known under the pseudonym Matwo is a painter and illustrator. Passionate about painting and illustration from a very young age, he undertakes studies in graphics and painting at the St Luc Institute as well as the Academy of Fine Arts in Tournai in Belgium, working on different supports and techniques. The themes addressed are diverse and varied. Art is a field of freedom with multiple possibilities: he likes to vary the subjects and come back to enhance his collections thanks to new energies. It begins to create in the 2000s through graffiti. This is where his nickname "Matwo", derived from the word Matou, was born. He develops an imagination around a gutter cat, to develop a universe with soft and bitter colors. His tomcat is a mirror with emotions that allows him to explore different techniques, imbued with music and the universe in which he is. The tomcat continues its path through the universe of cut paper thanks to old paper, loaded with soul and history which give a more abstract and more instinctive meaning to its work. A technique which he considers "accidental", and allows him to exploit other pictorial borders. & Nbsp; then the tomcat turns to the museum universe. Surrounded by the work of his predecessors, he discovers the history of art, artistic currents and especially realism. He then decides to explore the study on a living model to give a more realistic side to his work. It was then that collections are born such as "Les Fusains", the collection "Ghost," Eros "and" Vegetalys ". He studied the compositions of the great masters like Rubens, Caravage, Delatour, Courbet. By revisiting certain well -known paintings, he gives a red thread to his work, that of "vanity" by adopting the technique of the charcoal. From this series follows the collection "Humor Nouart". & Nbsp; always permeated by the theme of vanity, he decides to have fun and create a universe around death. He considers that she becomes less tragic by illustrating it with a little humor. & Nbsp; often questioned for his nickname "Matwo", he considers that it suits him very well. Like the cat that has several lives, its different collections live with each other. Its different collections can accept its accuracy. He likes to be where we do not expect him by returning regularly with new desires and new pictorial projects. & Nbsp;

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    Le surfer by Yannick Duriez
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    Le surfer by Yannick Duriez

    Le surfer

    Paintings - 145x160 cm
    Charcuterie by Yannick Duriez
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    Charcuterie by Yannick Duriez

    Charcuterie

    Paintings - 120x120 cm
    Round 1 by Yannick Duriez
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    Round 1 by Yannick Duriez

    Round 1

    Paintings - 160x230 cm
    Marmule by Yannick Duriez
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    Marmule by Yannick Duriez

    Marmule

    Paintings - 160x230 cm
    Purple Dream by Yannick Duriez
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    Purple Dream by Yannick Duriez

    Purple Dream

    Paintings - 216x200 cm
    La balade burlesque by Yannick Duriez
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    La balade burlesque by Yannick Duriez

    La balade burlesque

    Paintings - 140x130 cm
    Tête de ... by Yannick Duriez
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    Tête de ... by Yannick Duriez

    Tête de ...

    Paintings - 30x24 cm
    Siffler en travaillant by Yannick Duriez
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    Siffler en travaillant by Yannick Duriez

    Siffler en travaillant

    Paintings - 30x25 cm
    cul qui gratte by Yannick Duriez
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    cul qui gratte by Yannick Duriez

    cul qui gratte

    Paintings - 30x25 cm
    Cul plat by Yannick Duriez
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    Cul plat by Yannick Duriez

    Cul plat

    Paintings - 30x25 cm
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    Bisou prout by Yannick Duriez

    Bisou prout

    Paintings - 30x25 cm
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    Tahitienne by Yannick Duriez

    Tahitienne

    Paintings - 30x21 cm
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    Extra terrestre by Yannick Duriez

    Extra terrestre

    Paintings - 30x21 cm
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    Mère et fille by Yannick Duriez

    Mère et fille

    Paintings - 30x21 cm
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    La jeune femme et son chat by Yannick Duriez

    La jeune femme et son chat

    Paintings - 30x21 cm
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    Tomette by Yannick Duriez

    Tomette

    Paintings - 30x21 cm

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