
(Mexico City, 1975)
Paul Muguet, formed at the Annecy School of Fine Arts and then at the Nîmes Superior School of Fine Arts (both in France), works above all with painting and sculpture, media that constitute the point of departure for the exploration of what he has called “the worries, the interests, the emotions that emerge in the everyday life of any person.” The references to the everyday are therefore fundamental in his work, be they to common thoughts about death, time, or dreams, or be they to the familiar objects upon which every person’s life experiences come to be imprinted.
These experiences are inscribed in material cultures whose approaches to color and design are particular, and Muguet is characterized by the reactivation of the complexity of that which culture has integrated as part of its visual normalcy. The Secuencias (2017) and Petates (2018) reproduce the color patterns of everyday Mexican products such as bags, beds, and mats, whose complexity and diversity acquire new dimensions when they are recreated as paintings. Even if there exists a shared context in which those patterns refer to specific objects, it coexists directly with a personal context, in which those very same objects stop having a shared meaning and acquire a unique one, dependent on the individual that looks at them. This connection is one of the main motifs of the artist’s research.
Muguet currently lives and works in Mexico City.
Paul Muguet
Bayadère No. 2 (green), 2019
Enamel on canvas
200h x 180w x 4d cm
78 94/127h x 70 110/127w x 1 73/127d in
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Paul Muguet
Bayadère No. 3 (blue), 2019
Enamel on canvas
200h x 180w x 4d cm
78 94/127h x 70 110/127w x 1 73/127d in
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Paul Muguet
Petate No. 5, 2018
Oil on canvas
25h x 20w cm
9 107/127h x 7 111/127w in
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Paul Muguet
Petate No. 2, 2018
Acrylic enamel on canvas
162h x 130w cm
63 99/127h x 51 23/127w in
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Paul Muguet
Petate No. 1, 2018
Acrylic enamel on canvas
177.50h x 152w cm
69 112/127h x 59 107/127w in
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Paul Muguet
Petate No. 3, 2018
Acrylic enamel on canvas
150h x 120w cm
59 7/127h x 47 31/127w in
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Paul Muguet
Secuencia No. 24, 2017
Acrylic enamel on canvas
200h x 180w cm
78 94/127h x 70 110/127w in
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Paul Muguet
Modulación No. 1, 2019
Enamel and metallic paint on canvas
160h x 130w cm
62 126/127h x 51 23/127w in
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