Mattia Denisse was born in 1967 in Blois, France and lives in Lisbon. His drawings, notes and descriptions document the impressions of exotic landscapes and vegetations, but also myths and collective narratives find their way into his fantastic worlds of images and ideas. In addition, literary influences from French avant-garde play an important role – like Raymond Roussel, René Daumal or Alfred Jarry, the founding father of “pataphysics” as a “science of imaginary solutions”. Thus, in Denisse’s drawings and prints, autobiographically seen, remembered and imagined merge with pata- and metaphysical speculations.
Exhibitions (selection): 2020 West Den Haag; 2019 Anozero’19, Bienal de Coimbra, Portugal; STATIV. The Monkey Anthropologist VS The Lizard Alcoholic, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen; 2017 Deus verme (with João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva), Caroline Pagès Gallery, Lisbon; Duplo Vê, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon; 2015 Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon; 2015 Museu Lasar Segall, São Paulo; 2014 Unitasking (tentatively), Temporary Gallery. Center for Contemporary Art, Cologne. In 2011 Denisse was a fellow of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Annual edition 2019
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Duplo Vê. Conferência sobre o anti-globo: ∀, 2017
Coloured pencil on paper
55 x 40 cm, framed
unique work; with certificate
Out of stock
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Traverser le Rubicon. La visite au musée. A natureza morta-viva, 2017
Coloured pencil on paper
32 x 38 cm, framed
unique work; with certificate
Out of stock
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Duplo Vê. Os três estados da alma a seguir à queda, 2017
Coloured pencil on paper
38 x 32 cm, framed
unique work; with certificate
Out of stock
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Editora Tripé. Table des Matières et des Anti-Matières, 2018/2019
Silkscreen on Velin d’Arches paper
107 x 75 cm
Edition 1/5; verso sign., dat., with certificate
Out of stock
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Duplo Vê. Desenhos mnemónicos: “procuraram o fogo e acharam o passarinho Mutúg. Macunaíma amarrou-lhe um cordel comprido ao rabo” ==> História divina do fumo, 2017
Coloured pencil on paper
32 x 38 cm, framed
unique work; with certificate
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Duplo Vê. Desenhos mnemónicos: Macunaíma disse “deixa sair um bocadinho mais de peixe para o rio depois vamos cobrir o toco” ==> História da enchente, 2017
Coloured pencil on paper
32 x 38 cm, framed
unique work; with certificate
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Duplo Vê. Desenhos mnemónicos: A árvore Azaka estava envolvida em cipós e havia muitas vespas, 2017
Coloured pencil on paper
32 x 38 cm, framed
unique work; with certificate
each Euro 714,–
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