Timothée Schelstraete

b. 1985, French

Timothée Schelstraete is best known for his black and white, monochrome paintings in which representational imagery seemingly disintegrates within the picture. Images, varied in subject matter—think of plants, trees, landscapes, daily objects, or urban elements—are deconstructed throughout the artist’s creative process before being reconstructed in the act of painting.

The artistic process consists of an amalgam of techniques, manipulating the picture analogously and digitally, incorporating photography, abstraction, repetition, grids, glitches, glazing, scratches, textures, patterns and highlights, constructing the painting by manner of multiple layers of everything mentioned above. Doing so, Schelstraete achieves a strongly homogenous oeuvre combining printing with painting, or ink toner with oil paint.

Timothée Schelstraete, born in 1985 in Paris, France, studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rouen and has exhibited nationally and internationally at renowned galleries and institutions including Thaddaeus Ropac, Musée Rolin, Centre d’Art Contemporain (CAC) in Meymac, POCTB in Orléans or Maison des Arts de Créteil (MAC). As a result, the works by Timothée Schelstraete are featured in reputable private and public collections including FRAC Normandie in Rouen, Goethe-Institut Palermo and the Collection de la ville de Vitry-sur-Seine.

Timothée Schelstraete resides and works in Paris, France.

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