About

Born in 1983, des Monstiers graduated from the prestigious École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris under the tutelage of Jean-Michel Alberola. At the heart of his practice lies an incessant concern for the methodology of painting. To this end, des Monstiers does not adhere to and fervently resists fixed categories such as abstraction and figuration in his approach to painting. Instead, the French artist borrows from a multitude of aesthetic principles including collage and montage to challenge the conventions surrounding painting. Such perspective naturally sees his heightened …