“My work explores both what separates people and unites them, it always takes the viewer to a fragile, in-between place, a narrow space of possibility.”
These are the words of French artist David Mesguich, a renowned world-class sculptor and painter, who specialized in the avant-garde form of glitch art.
Born in 1979, Mesguich is based in Brussels, works and lives and works between Belgium and France.
In true artist’s fashion, Mesguich obsessively travels cities, leaving his mark across Europe’s largest urban centers, conveying what he sees as humanity’s most uniting and separating attributes.
In an interview with Hespress EN, the artist shares his background story, speaking of what ignited this passion and why he makes this type of art.
Why do you make this type art?
As far as I can remember, I have always wanted to create things. When I was a kid, I was already doing technical drawings of some utopic military vehicles or architectures.
As my dad was in jail since I was born, I learned to get to know him in those carceral places my whole childhood, this ignited an interest in me.
After years of projecting interest in those places, I wanted to focus on the people that were in them and I began to install ephemeral sculpture portraits in the streets.
This was the beginning of my sculpture practice between 2001 and 2009.
What does your artwork represent?
My work explores both what separates people and unites them, it always takes the viewer to a fragile, in-between place, a narrow space of possibility.
My work focuses on the people who belong to nowhere, to those that had no choice but to cross borders and leave it all just to keep existing.
What inspires you?
When talking about the subject of inspiration, it is impossible, the situations that are not supposed to be because of laws and rules.
That is why borders, prisoners, and migrant stories intrigue me, and because they remind me of my own background. Aesthetically speaking, I have always been fascinated by coding and computers.
I was born amidst the rise of the video games era, and remember as far as I can tell, that I used to spend lunch money on arcades, never thinking that there would come a day, that I was an adult, would be able to bring these pixel designs into the material world in the shape 2D and 3D graphics.
Luckily, that day arrived and today I am able to do them and that is what I do with my polygonal sculptures and drawing.
Traces of David Mesguich’s artwork can be spotted in the streets of Poland, Belgium, and France. Huge installations are designed to trigger awe in viewers’ consciousness and push them to dissect the depth of his artwork in a contemplative manner.
The artist graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Aix-en-Provence, he then proceeded to develop an assiduous practice in drawing, in parallel to, a practice in vandal graffiti and a latter fascination by polygonal aesthetics, an important element of the language of glitch art.
In his latest event held at Montresso Art Foundation in Marrakech, art enthusiasts had access to experience David Mesguich’s artwork, in the foundation’s exhibition gallery.
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