Philippe Decrauzat

Born in 1974 in Lausanne, he lives and works there.

On canvas or wall, in installations or in sculpture: multi-supported, Philippe Decrauzat's painting elaborates complex visual compositions with a range of colours privileging black and white. It is no coincidence that his work draws on a wide range of influences, where psychedelic art is combined with minimalism, where kinetic painting meets the cinema. Stripes, lines, planes, flat areas: so many ways to make the surface vibrate and take the eye out of its ordinary perceptions. 

What does your artistic proposal consist of at the Abattoirs - Musée Frac Occitanie Toulouse?

I wanted to place two recent works in parallel and in space. In the first space, the film After Birds (first shown at the Vienna Secession earlier this year), and in the second, a sound sculpture, Leslie, which I have been working on for a year. This creates an audio/visual symmetry. Moreover, these two rooms are on either side of a corridor space that will house a mural, Mirrors . It is the result of a superimposition of two systems of non-parallel diagonals that cover the entire architecture of this intermediate space. I think that the exhibition will be played out to a large extent in this space and in the openings to the rooms. These are superimposed layers.
(Interview by Thierry Davila)