{"id":725,"date":"2013-12-12T01:24:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T06:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=725"},"modified":"2019-12-24T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T22:21:32","slug":"mathieu-bories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/mathieu-bories","title":{"rendered":"Mathieu Bories (Mateo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1596\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-Le-Bonheur-au-mexique-web.jpg\" alt=\"Le Bonheur au Mexique by Mateo\" width=\"515\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-Le-Bonheur-au-mexique-web.jpg 515w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-Le-Bonheur-au-mexique-web-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-Le-Bonheur-au-mexique-web-210x285.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Le Bonheur au Mexique<\/em><br \/>\n16&#8243;x12&#8243;; acrylic and collage on paper; 2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mathieu Bories (Mateo)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Toulouse, France<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Collage and stencil artist Mathieu Bories, alias Mateo, questions the perception of the world which surrounds us. His humanistic approach emphasizes a nostalgia of childhood as well as a romanticism erased in our contemporary society.<\/p>\n<p>Forgotten images, photography, travel documents accumulated in search of timeless knowledge are the raw material of a personal composition, a monologue of the soul.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s not where you take things from, it\u2019s where you take them to.&#8221; -Jean-Luc Godard<\/p>\n<p><strong>BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born in France in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>After completing a Master&#8217;s degree in art in Toulouse, he headed to Montreal to study and work for 4 years. Then, he embarked on an 8 month journey around South America, where he continued to create murals throughout his time there. His influences are situated between street art and collage where the artist can experience a total freedom of materials.<\/p>\n<p>His work can be seen in France, Spain, Lithuania, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Bolivia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"mailto:mathieubories@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click to email<\/a>]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathieubories.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.mathieubories.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1597\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-Apis-mellifera-web.jpg\" alt=\"Apis mellifera by Mateo\" width=\"519\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-Apis-mellifera-web.jpg 519w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-Apis-mellifera-web-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-Apis-mellifera-web-210x283.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Apis mellifera<\/em><br \/>\n16&#8243;x12&#8243;; acrylic and collage on paper; 2013<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1598\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-Choisir-web.jpg\" alt=\"Choisir by Mateo\" width=\"519\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-Choisir-web.jpg 519w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-Choisir-web-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-Choisir-web-210x283.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Choisir<\/em><br \/>\n16&#8243;x12&#8243;; acrylic and collage on paper; 2013<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1600\" src=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-idol-web.jpg\" alt=\"Idol by Mateo\" width=\"453\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-idol-web.jpg 453w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-idol-web-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-idol-web-210x324.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Idol<\/em><br \/>\n60&#8243;x40&#8243;; collage, acrylic and spray paint on canvas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toulouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[13],"tags":[124],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mateo-idol-web.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BNTD-bH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}