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 nuage by Yannick Duriez
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    Le nuage by Yannick Duriez

    Le nuage

    Collage - 80x60 cm
    The smoky girl by Yannick Duriez
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    The smoky girl by Yannick Duriez

    The smoky girl

    Collage - 81x55 cm
    La Plage by Yannick Duriez
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    La Plage by Yannick Duriez

    La Plage

    Paintings - 150x200 cm
    Patouseul by Yannick Duriez
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    Patouseul by Yannick Duriez

    Patouseul

    Paintings - 178x100 cm
    La récompense by Yannick Duriez
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    La récompense by Yannick Duriez

    La récompense

    Paintings - 178x100 cm
    ça va aller by Yannick Duriez
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    ça va aller by Yannick Duriez

    ça va aller

    Paintings - 178x100 cm
    Le visage by Yannick Duriez
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    Le visage by Yannick Duriez

    Le visage

    Paintings - 41x33 cm
    Barbara Gourde by Yannick Duriez
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    Barbara Gourde by Yannick Duriez

    Barbara Gourde

    Paintings - 41x33 cm
    La Sirène by Yannick Duriez
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    La Sirène by Yannick Duriez

    La Sirène

    Paintings - 160x220 cm
    The smoky boy by Yannick Duriez
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    The smoky boy by Yannick Duriez

    The smoky boy

    Collage - 81x55 cm
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    Bicki Boogie by Yannick Duriez

    Bicki Boogie

    Paintings - 146x80 cm
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    Peter Rumsteack by Yannick Duriez

    Peter Rumsteack

    Paintings - 50x30 cm
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    Super Boy by Yannick Duriez

    Super Boy

    Paintings - 190x250 cm
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    Venus by Yannick Duriez

    Venus

    Paintings - 146x80 cm
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    Street's Legend by Yannick Duriez

    Street's Legend

    Paintings - 180x150 cm
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    Hector by Yannick Duriez

    Hector

    Paintings - 146x80 cm

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