Biography
Guillaume Caron-Maus is a visual artist, oil painter, draftsman, computer enthusiast, and technology lover born in Oise (60) in 1992. He currently lives and works in Val d'Oise (95). He spent a year studying Fine Arts in Beauvais before completing his university studies at the University of Paris VIII and earning his Master's degree in research, focused on line and color, in 2016.
He devotes himself to the pictorial study of color and realism.
Influences
Albrecht Durer, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Keith Haring, Michel Giliberti, Olivier Ledroit... His studies have instilled in him a taste for knowledge and research; he enjoys drawing knowledge and techniques from wherever they are available and applying them in his work.
Guillaume reimagines the genre of portraiture through his relationships with contemporary digital tools; he aims to develop a new aspect of his practice. Indeed, there are plans to directly utilize digital tools through interdisciplinary projects starting in 2024. He generally aligns himself with a movement of contemporary realism.
Artistic Approach
Guillaume Caron-Maus questions the relationships individuals have with technology. The relationship with the world, the environment, and nature are at the center of his artistic approach. His pictorial language resorts, among other things, to the prism of Virtual Reality and the inevitable disconnection from reality, the biased vision of what surrounds the user, in order to deepen the subjects of his compositions.
His work highlights both the negative and positive aspects that result from the relationship between the human species and its environment. He naturally maintains a very strong connection with the animal and plant world; portraits of animals punctuate his journey. He enjoys representing and revealing the beauty of nature.
He also explores futuristic and science-fictional universes through his dystopias. His scenes where individuals wearing helmets move in an environment with mostly abstract colors respond to this dystopian orientation.
There is a desire to show other universes, other worlds, other realities; color being the preferred vehicle of these "Others," within which wandering is the theme addressed. Wandering as a passive driver of chromatic exploration.
Pictorial Language
He resorts to portraiture to emphasize his discourse through the individuals represented: these are as many witnesses who find themselves spectators of a real or unreal environment. Are they avatars within virtual worlds? Are they individuals immersed in an alternative reality?
Furthermore, Guillaume is constantly searching to renew his pictorial language; thus, the aesthetics of his works can take on a polymorphic veil. This reflects the need to explore new angles and facets of reality through the use of color specific to each.
Figurative Work
He focuses on the study and work of local color within heterogeneous compositions and at several levels of interpretation: portraits of anonymous people wearing VR headsets, representations of a ravaged nature, the impact of pollution on animal and human life... These works lead us both to contemplation and reflection, to question our actions, our behaviors, our society.
