Born in Briançon in 1986, Marius Pons de Vincent is a painter living and working in Strasbourg who graduated from the Decorative Arts academy of Strasbourg in 2012. In 2021, the city awarded him the Strasbourg Art Prize. He was also a resident of the Bastion XIV art studio between 2013 and 2017.
The work of Marius Pons de Vincent has been the subject of several solo and group exhibitions in France (MASC, Sables-d'Olonne; Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis; MALS, Sochaux), Germany (Kunstverein, Kirchzarten) and Switzerland (Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal).
Marius Pons de Vincent's pictorial work is constantly renewing itself. Producing mises en abyme in which the artist's gesture and the material of creation become both the support and subject, creating trompe-l'oeil compositions of objects, series of landscapes and portraits whose graphic design recalls the composition of the Flemish primitives, his artistic practice feeds itself through an ongoing reflection on the medium and on the narrative of his own creative process.
Working with oil paint on wood and textiles, paint under glass, as well as the waste products (residual oil painting) of his studio, Marius Pons de Vincent creates works of impressive technicality and delicacy, which also evoke Renaissance and Romantic art.
In Marius Pons de Vincent's work, as illustrated by his series of hypnotical, stiff self-portraits in profile, color is conceived as a force: it subtly structures flesh, drapery and light, while at the same time creating a form of narrative strangeness, as its intensity can make us forget the subject. Sharing Wayne Thiebaud's taste for the object, still lifes are treated in the same rigorous, graphic way as portraits.
Beyond his technical mastery and the apparent austerity of his compositions, Marius Pons de Vincent's work gives plenty of room to the accidental, the bizarre and the humorous, whether he's reproducing checkered paper sheets with their oil stains and ballpoint pen marks, creating four-handed works with his young son or playing with temporal markers and the very making process of the painting.