Pierre ASSEMAT

Pierre ASSEMAT came to painting as one comes to religion, which is to say living fully his faith in this art form— which has been around since cavemen, and the day when one of them dipped his hands in clay to press it consciously on rocky walls and therefore created the first artistic motion.

In 1985, while Assemat spent his first stay in Paris, he visits the Grande Chaumière and the Académie Libre de Montparnasse, seeing a show of gouaches on a Paris theme. Then, follow trips to Africa and visits to the great European museums, especially in Italy. He later spends a long period of painting landscapes, influenced by Cézanne. In 1970, end of the landscapes, beginning of anonymous crowds. From these crowds, Assemat will extract "remarkable identities" in series, in oils and gouaches.

Beginning in 1975, these images illustrate face to face confrontations between animals and humans, also odd groupings, testimonies on humanity and tenderness, all this through the intense"chant" of colors, which excite and give life. If intense emotions come out of such Expressionism, it's because Assemat's coloring is well studied and finely applied, and well supported by his faithful and essential drawing.

These most recent years, his work is based upon a theme harking to past history, such as "The Way to Compostela" and "Greek Mythology". His "Monkeys" series was followed by "Mirrors", " Imaginary Portraits", "The Musicians", and "The Sleepwalkerss". And so Assemat continues to perform outside popular trends.

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Pierre ASSEMAT

70, rue Pierre Corneille

81100 - CASTRES (FRANCE)

Tel: 05 63 35 64 83

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Oil on canvas & collage
24" x 30" — 89 cm x 116 cm

The birth of Venus
Oil on canvas
24" x 30" — 130 cm x 162 cm