Maxime Testu at Café des Glaces

Artist: Maxime Testu

Exhibition title: Désastre

Curated by: Haydée Marin & Camille Besson

Venue: Café des Glaces, Tonnerre, France

Date: November 11, 2023 – February 3, 2023

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Café des Glaces

Born in 1990 in Bois-Guillaume (France)
Lives and works between Paris and Normandy.
Maxime Testu works in cycles, in several repertoires. His visual thinking is non-linear. His thought process resembles flashes of light illuminated by his obsessions which ricochet off one another to inspire his work. His logic recalls the the romanticism and uses poetic fragment like Novalis rather than systematic thought. His printmaking is the backbone of his production and informs and brings together a number of important media: painting, drawing, sculpture, publishing and writing.
Maxime Testu studied in Reims, at ENSBA in Lyon and at
HEAD in Geneva. In 2017, he took part in the 68th edition
of Jeune Création at the Beaux-arts de Paris, the Salon de Montrouge in 2018 and the twentieth prize of the Ricard corporate foundation. He has exhibited in institutions (FRAC Champagne Ardennes, Les Tanneries in Amilly, FRAC Grand Large etc.), independent spaces (Smalville in Neuchâtel, Jeudi in Geneva, Idealfruhstuck in Paris etc.) and Paris galleries. In 2019, he was in residence at Parc Saint Léger and, in 2020, at FRAC Grand Large. He recently joined the collections of FRAC Ile de France (le Plateau).