Press release:
On the occasion of the drawing week in Paris, the artist Vincent Mesaros offers an experiment: make drawing a physical and spiritual exploration.
The exhibition Matières Noires, des cendres aux étoiles is an archaeology of becoming. It functions as a support for signs to be decoded following a path that transforms the space of the gallery. 

In the showcase, the resumption of a drawing by Magritte, Tout arrive (Everything happened), welcomes us like an omen.


In the first space, the light exposes us to the fragility of life in struggle with its own finitude. The Phalenes, made with charcoal and ash attached to encaustic, seem captured in the fatal moment of their attraction to light. They dialogue with the series Monsters (flora), drawings of organic flowers born from burning and ink stains, and with the quasi-scientific meticulousness of the meditative drawings of scavenging insects and wilted flowers. 
In the basement, darkness envelops us in the intimacy of matter. The artist installs the cosmos there. The celestial Nails, ceramics stranded on the ground, draw like an inverted stellar map, while the cosmic Sails invite the visitor to physically split these constellated canvases to circulate. With the Revelations, drawings with water and black smoke, and the Linceuls, patinated ceramics with carbon oxide scattered in space, the cellar is transformed into a dense and inhabited night, a mental as well as physical space. 
Then emerge from the constellated depths, like these figures of shadow rising towards the light. 


Through this exhibition conceived as an initiatory device, the artist proposes a meditation on subsistence, becoming and loss. For Vincent Mesaros, it is about maintaining the creative act, resisting the world of transparency and unique thought through a productive opacity open to interpretations.

Exhibition from 17 March to 11 April 2026


4, rue Visconti, 75006 Paris


Tuesday to Saturday, 2 pm – 7 pm


Opening on 26 March 2026, 6 pm – 9 pm

Vincent Mesaros lives and works in Paris. His practice is part of a multidisciplinary research in which drawing unfolds into painting, installation, ceramics, photography, video and the occasional organisation of group exhibitions (institutions, galleries, private venues). He teaches visual arts at university as well as in preparatory classes for entrance exams to national art schools.

Images on request: contact@vincentmesaros.com