PIERRE TRAVERSAT

                  THE ARTIST WHO LETS MATTER SPEAK

Pierre Traversat has never painted to decorate.
He has always worked to reveal what lies hidden within matter.

Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, he began with watercolor, in a quiet search for light. But very quickly, the surface was no longer enough. He went to Africa. There, he discovered something beyond color: he discovered the density of the world. Earth, wood, heat, bodies, rhythm. Matter was no longer neutral. It was alive.

From that moment on, his entire work changed.

He no longer paints what he sees.
He paints what matter wants to say.

His oils became thick, almost sculpted. His sculptures are born from exotic woods, iroko, dense fibers loaded with history. He does not polish matter to erase it; he lets it speak, resist, breathe. Every crack, every vein, every tension becomes a fragment of a story.

Pierre Traversat works like an archaeologist of form.
He removes what is unnecessary so that what is essential can appear.

That is why his figures — human, animal, or abstract — always seem to be emerging. They are not fixed. They are coming into being before our eyes.

Winner of the 22 Th Monte Carlo International Prize.
has exhibited in Paris, Africa, Europe, and the United States. But his true territory lies elsewhere:
in the space between painting and sculpture,
between surface and volume,
between what is seen and what is felt.

In a world saturated with images, Pierre Traversat still works with his hands.
With the weight of wood.
With the slowness of gesture.
With the truth of matter.

His works do not try to please.
They try to exist.

And that is why they are unforgettable.