artist/ Montolio

France

Painter Clément Montolio lives and works in Lyon.

Clément Montolio’s Obvious Mysteries could appear to be a paradox of the mind. But this is not the case. Here the mystery is intellectualised in the painting, it is one with the work, it is in the work, it is the work. Clément Montolio frees himself from aesthetics so that the Mystery can be glimpsed, mystery in the first sense borrowed from the Latin mysterium, i.e. expressing the profound character, the inherent virtue of a thing. Clément Montolio frees himself from aesthetics as an examination of nature and beauty to lead us to the “true”. His work is in keeping with the philosophical legacy of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, in his research into the notion of truth and language, working on aesthetics as a cognitive stage enabling access to intuition and truth.

Extract from a text by Anne-Sophie Coppin for Cahier de Crimée Mystères évidents, 2014