Maxime Testu, co-founder of Le Marquis, an independent space that, since 2017, has given rise to various projects and exhibitions, contributing to the development and autonomy of a new generation of artists within the art scene.
Maxime Testu’s work revolves around a repertoire of images, objects and forms that move between the everyday and the imaginary. His paintings and sculptures draw on still lifes, landscapes, domestic objects and archetypal forms which, once displaced from their original context, acquire a strange and unexpected character.
His practice questions the boundaries between artistic genres and categories, incorporating references from painting, decorative arts, design, printmaking and popular culture. Through light, colour and the transformation of forms, Testu constructs a visual universe in which the recognisable coexists with the ambiguous, and where a familiar image can acquire a new presence.
From his early exhibitions to his presence in important French institutions, Maxime Testu’s career reflects a constant evolution. His work is now held in public collections such as those of FRAC Île-de-France and CNAP, marking the consolidation of a distinctive artistic language in continuous transformation.
He has also participated in various group exhibitions across France, Switzerland and Belgium, including at FRAC Grand Large in Dunkirk, Fondation Ricard and Salon de Montrouge in Paris, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims, Les Tanneries – Centre d’art contemporain in Amilly, and Collectible in Brussels.
Maxime Testu lives and works between Paris and Normandy.