Mark Peintre – lives and works in Paris.

Mark Peintre is a fiction trying to emerge from reality. In 1994, after graduating as an artist under another name, Mark Peintre began painting “for nothing”. He regularly went to various museums and abandoned his paintings. He believed that art was a gratuitous act, painting and wasting time, waiting. This position created a tension, even a contradiction, with the art market and life.

His main preoccupation thus turned to painting, expressing himself mainly within the framework of abstract expressionism. For the artist, this encompasses concepts such as trace, and constantly raises questions about the relationship to others in the creative process.

This introduces the spectator as a viewer, who can take hold of the painting-object, and participate in the artist's various performance installations, which is another mode of pictorial appearance for him.

“Painting leaves its historical frame, the stretcher, to spread out into space. It becomes three-dimensional, an extended physical space, inviting the viewer to become an actor-visitor. At the same time, the painter (Mark Peintre) becomes an actor making and or the object making itself. Ultimately, then, it's a matter of initiating a process of encounter between two actors in the same play (theater or work of visual art).”

In his work, conceptual art is combined with the place and life of an artist in everyday life. This extreme positioning of the artist, which consists in physically abandoning his works and then abandoning the artist's social function, questions the value of the creative act and of the artistic objects produced. At the same time, it establishes a discontinuity in reality, blurring the boundaries between the everyday and fiction.

For several years now, he has been taking part in group and solo exhibitions in Paris, sometimes performing several times at the same event.