«In your sculptures, you divert many industrial objects from their initial use, from car spare parts to electronic components, salvage scrap metal and also monumental sluice gates. Do you feel you are a direct descendant of the long line of scrap metal artists, from Tinguely to César, of new realists? »

Well, yes, up to a point. I do, in so far as I create my works out of derelict objects because they have become useless or ineffectual, scrap metal which will live a new life in my sculptures, will survive to deterioration and become the privileged witness of a materialistic time of accelerated wasting.

On the other hand, I do not, because I am more strongly influenced by the “anticipation” and “prospective” spheres, from Giger to Jodorowsky, and Jules Verne. Materialism is cracking all over, we are changing world, the present and the future are merging more and more, everything is becoming fluid and our landmarks are getting blurred.

A little as in poetry …

P.Matter

2012

Opera Gallery, Paris

2011

Opera Gallery, Singpore

Opera Gallery,  DubaÏ

2010

St'Art - Strasbourg - France

Maison Beatus, Sélestat - France

2009

Opera Gallery, Singapore

Pierre with a part of the Singapore team !!!

2008

Opera Gallery, New-York - U.S.A.

Gong Zhen - Art in Sport, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai - China

Gong Zhen - Art in Sport, Museum of Ghanzhou Art Academy, Ghanzhou - China

Gong Zhen - Art in Sport, RCM the Museum of Modern Art, Nanjing - China

Gong Zhen - Art in Sport, Gallery of Luxun Art Academy, Shenyang - China

Gong Zhen - Art in Sport, Today Art Museum, Bejing - China

Contemporary Art fair, Shanghai – China

2007

Annual Shanghai international Exhibition of Sculptures, Shanghai - China

Opera Gallery, Singapore

Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai - China

Fantasmagory, Epinal - France

Contemporary Art fair, Shanghai - China

2006

Espace 110, Illzach - France

Contemporary Art fair, Shanghai - China

Opera Gallery, Hong-Kong

2005

Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai - China

Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai - China

Contemporary Art fair, Shanghai - China

2004

New-Yorker Magazine, (censored), New-York - U.S.A.

2003

Opera Gallery New-York - U.S.A.

2002

Tokyu Bunkamura Gallery Museum, Tokyo - Japan

Tenjin Salaria Event Space, Fukuoka - Japan

Plaza, ozaka - Japon Loft Gallery Museum, Nagoya -Japan

Red brick Wearhouse Gallery, Yokohama - Japan

2001

Opera Gallery, Singapore

2000

Radio France, Paris - France

Esch Théâtre Gallery, Luxembourg

Opera Gallery, New-York - U.S.A.

1999

Aktuel Gallery - Germany

Conseil de l'Europe, Strasbourg - France

Canne’s Gallery - France

1998

Galerie Daune, Paris - France

1997

Conseil de l'Europe, Strasbourg – France

Espace Paul Ricard, Bandol - France

Galerie le Virage, Délémont - Switzerland

REWARDS

1993   Médaille d’or Mondial-arts Salon                           Avignon - France

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