{"id":173,"date":"2025-03-03T16:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=173"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:02:40","slug":"mathieu-leenaert","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/fr\/artiste\/mathieu-leenaert\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathieu Leenaert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>L'aerosol sur toile<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mathieu-Leenaert-1-682x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mathieu-Leenaert-1-682x1024.webp 682w, https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mathieu-Leenaert-1-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mathieu-Leenaert-1-768x1153.webp 768w, https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mathieu-Leenaert-1-1023x1536.webp 1023w, https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mathieu-Leenaert-1-8x12.webp 8w, https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mathieu-Leenaert-1.webp 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">N\u00e9 en 1983, Mathieu Leenaert vit et travaille \u00e0&nbsp;Knokke-Heist. Issu de la campagne flamande, il d\u00e9veloppe tr\u00e8s t\u00f4t un go\u00fbt pour les chemins de traverse et les trajectoires singuli\u00e8res.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apr\u00e8s des \u00e9tudes d\u2019\u00e9conomie \u00e0&nbsp;Bruges, il poursuit un parcours intellectuel exigeant en se tournant vers la philosophie de l\u2019art et l\u2019esth\u00e9tique \u00e0&nbsp;University of Helsinki, avant d\u2019obtenir un master en philosophie \u00e0&nbsp;Ghent University. Cette formation nourrit en profondeur une pratique artistique pens\u00e9e comme un espace de r\u00e9flexion autant que d\u2019exp\u00e9rimentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En parall\u00e8le, il d\u00e9veloppe une recherche plastique personnelle, explorant une grande diversit\u00e9 de m\u00e9diums, de la peinture en a\u00e9rosol \u00e0 l\u2019encre, jusqu\u2019au travail \u00e0 l\u2019aiguille. Cette qu\u00eate des limites, \u00e0 la fois sociales et formelles, le conduit \u00e0 exercer le tatouage pendant plusieurs ann\u00e9es, d\u2019abord en itin\u00e9rance, puis depuis un studio priv\u00e9 sur la c\u00f4te belge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Durant pr\u00e8s de deux d\u00e9cennies, Mathieu Leenaert affine un langage visuel rigoureux, fond\u00e9 sur des compositions monochromes, r\u00e9alistes et g\u00e9om\u00e9triques. Mais face \u00e0 la r\u00e9cup\u00e9ration progressive d\u2019une culture autrefois marginale par le mainstream, il amorce une rupture radicale. Cette tension donne naissance \u00e0 une v\u00e9ritable renaissance artistique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sans formation acad\u00e9mique en arts plastiques, il revient \u00e0 la peinture en a\u00e9rosol dans un geste instinctif, libre et affranchi. En r\u00e9action \u00e0 une \u00e9poque satur\u00e9e d\u2019images et de simulacres num\u00e9riques, il choisit l\u2019\u00e9pure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ses grandes toiles m\u00e9ditatives, construites \u00e0 partir de d\u00e9grad\u00e9s subtils, ouvrent des espaces de silence et de suspension. \u00c0 travers ce qu\u2019il qualifie d\u2019\u00ab abstraction radicale \u00bb, il refus de toute figuration, de toute narration, et absence volontaire de titres, il propose une exp\u00e9rience directe, presque physique, de la couleur et de la lumi\u00e8re.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loin de toute lecture impos\u00e9e, son \u0153uvre invite \u00e0 ralentir, \u00e0 ressentir, \u00e0 se confronter \u00e0 une pr\u00e9sence pure. Une d\u00e9marche \u00e0 contre-courant, qui s\u2019oppose \u00e0 l\u2019imm\u00e9diatet\u00e9 et \u00e0 la surinterpr\u00e9tation de notre \u00e9poque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sa pratique artistique incarne ainsi une traduction plastique de ses convictions philosophiques, inspir\u00e9e notamment par la tension entre l\u2019Apollinien et le Dionysiaque, concepts h\u00e9rit\u00e9s de&nbsp;Friedrich Nietzsche, dans une recherche d\u2019\u00e9quilibre entre ordre et chaos, ma\u00eetrise et abandon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mathieu-Leenaert-1-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mathieu-Leenaert-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mathieu-Leenaert-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mathieu-Leenaert-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mathieu-Leenaert-1-18x10.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/baralogallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mathieu-Leenaert-1.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1673,"template":"","class_list":["post-173","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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