«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

2009

Opera gallery, singapore

2008

Opera Gallery, new-york

Gong Zhen - Art in Sport, Museum of Contemporary Art, shanghai - Chine

Gong Zhen - Art in Sport, Museum of Ghanzhou Art Academy, ghanzhou - Chine

Gong Zhen - Art in Sport, RCM the Museum of Modern Art, nanjing - Chine

Gong Zhen - Art in Sport, Gallery of Luxun Art Academy, shenyang - Chine

Gong Zhen - Art in Sport, Today Art Museum, bejing - Chine

Contemporary Art fair, shanghai – Chine

2007

Annual Shanghai international Exhibition of Sculptures, shanghai - Chine

Opera Gallery, singapore

Museum of Contemporary Art, shanghai - Chine

Fantasmagory, epinal - France

Contemporary Art fair, shanghai - Chine

2006

Espace 110, illzach - France

Contemporary Art fair, shanghai - Chine

Opera Gallery, hong-kong

2005 Shanghai Sculpture Space, shanghai - Chine

Contemporary Art fair, shanghai - Chine

2004

New-Yorker Magazine, new-york (censored)

2003

Opera Gallery New-York

2002

Tokyu Bunkamura Gallery Museum, tokyo - Japon

Tenjin Salaria Event Space, fukuoka - Japon

Plaza, ozaka - Japon Loft Gallery Museum, nagoya -Japon

Red brick Wearhouse Gallery, yokohama - Japon

2001

Opera Gallery, singapore

2000

Radio France, paris - France

Esch Théâtre Gallery, luxembourg

Opera Gallery, new-york

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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