{"id":1638,"date":"2022-08-08T12:14:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T04:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2022-08-08T12:14:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T04:14:01","slug":"artist-olivier-masmonteil-is-reviving-frances-peintre-datelier-to-train-the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/artist-olivier-masmonteil-is-reviving-frances-peintre-datelier-to-train-the-next-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Olivier Masmonteil Is Reviving France\u2019s \u2018Peintre d\u2019Atelier\u2019 to Train the Next Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a lineage that includes the likes of Tintoretto, Titian, and Rubens, artists have long maintained large studios, in which assistants\u2014previously called apprentices and students\u2014helped execute these famed Old Masters\u2019 major commissions in order to keep up with demand.<\/p>\n

With a team of nearly 10 people, Paris-based artist\u00a0Olivier Masmonteil<\/a>\u00a0is following that example, as one of the last\u00a0peintres d\u2019atelier<\/em>\u00a0in France. The impulse stems mainly from his adoration and respect for Old Masters, but is also pragmatic as it allows him to keep up with an increasing amount of commissions since 2016. But most important to Masmonteil is the hands-on experience that the emerging artists he employs get while working in the studio.<\/p>\n

After growing up in France\u2019s central Corr\u00e8ze department and studying at the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux in the late \u201990s, Masmonteil left France to spend a year at the former cotton-mill Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei in Germany, where he came into contact with artists Neo Rauch, Tim Eitel, Tilo Baumgartel, standard bearers for the New Leipzig School. He soon returned to his home country before traveling around the world twice between 2008 and 2012. Those travels gave rise to thousands of small landscape paintings that first brought attention to the artist.<\/p>\n

Also in 2012, Masmonteil started a series of homages to the likes of Titian, Vermeer, Courbet, and other Old Masters, copying their works and adding various layers to them to create a series called \u201cLa M\u00e9moire de la Peinture\u201d (Memory of Painting), like a flamboyant version of the already exuberant\u00a0Entr\u00e9e d\u2019Alexandre dans Babylone<\/em>\u00a0(Alexander Entering Babylon) by Charles Le Brun, the\u00a0premier peintre du roi<\/em>\u00a0(First Painter to the King), that Masmonteil has turned into a triptych.<\/p>\n

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Olivier Masmonteil,\u00a0Alexandre \u00e0 Babylone I, II, and III<\/em>, 2018\u201322, installation view, at\u00a0Fernet-Branca Foundation<\/a>, Saint-Louis, Switzerland.<\/span>PHOTO: PIERRE DOUAIRE<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Some of those personalized copies, including\u00a0 Masmonteil\u00a0Alexandre \u00e0 Babylone I, II and III<\/em>, are currently on view at the Fernet-Branca Foundation in Saint-Louis, Switzerland, which is responsible for the artist\u2019s first institutional solo show in 20 years. During the press view ahead of Art Basel, Masmonteil proudly gave credit to those who have helped him along the way, starting with master printer Emmanuel Mattazzi, who has found a way to create serigraphs with oil rather than ink especially for Masmonteil. Together they worked on a series titled\u00a0Les Demoiselles retrouv\u00e9es<\/em>\u00a0(The Rediscovered Young Ladies), which features feminine figures gracefully fading into or out of a furnished background, sometimes juxtaposed onto a landscape, all as a way of \u201crecovering [the canvas with various layers] to unveil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I wander about the Louvre, I want to be part of the history that hangs on the walls\u201d, said Masmonteil, who always keeps in mind that Rubens had about 250 people lending him a hand. The passionate\u00a0peintre d\u2019atelier<\/em>\u00a0refers to his assistants as collaborators.<\/p>\n

Masmonteil\u2019s first assistant, Nicolas Marciano, landed in his studio in Saint-Ouen, to the north of Paris, in 2017. His arrival coincided with Masmonteil\u2019s first commission from chef Yannick All\u00e9no to contribute to the design of the Pavillon Ledoyen, a three-Michelin-star restaurant located next to the Petit Palais in Paris. \u201cAt first I was not sure how much his presence would bother me. There is something so sacred about art in France, that it should be the work of one person,\u201d Masmonteil said. \u201cAfter letting Nicolas square the canvases up, prepare the backgrounds, apply the first layers\u2014tasks I normally enjoy\u2014I soon realized they would benefit him more. That\u2019s how our collaboration began.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Olivier Masmonteil,\u00a0Rubens dans une-rivi\u00e8re<\/em>, 2022.<\/span>PHOTO: AUR\u00c9LIEN MOLE<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

By the time a commission came from the St. Regis Venice for Masmonteil to create his own interpretations of Tintoretto\u2019s masterpieces in the Palazzo Ducale, Nicolas was already standing on his own two feet, ready to take the lead in the paintings\u2019 fabrications. Former art teacher Lara Bloy, who now oversees the studio, soon joined. She was followed closely by Alexandre Lichtblau, a painter who can now afford to work only twice a week as a dentist. (Masmonteil was so struck by his application that he felt it impossible to turn the budding artist down.) And finally the group was joined by 24-year-old Agathe Chebassier, the youngest of the group, who was to enter the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts in Marseille but decided to study under the aegis of an established artist like Masmonteil instead.<\/p>\n

With the responsibility of ripe talents on his shoulders, Masmonteil had to stock up on supplies (academic plasters, additional paint, brushes) and create a detailed but balanced schedule with slots devoted to his projects and free time for them to find their creative voice. On Thursday mornings the entire studio is invited to draw nude models. \u201cThey have all been female so far but we will also have male sitters coming into the studio from September onward,\u201d said Masmonteil, who is determined to give his pupils the best education there is. Those classes were established thanks to Lichtblau, who taps into his contacts from his time at the Acad\u00e9mie de La Grand Chaumi\u00e8re beginning in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cSure, the more we are, the faster we can work but I mostly love teaching, sharing my experience with a younger generation, helping them get rid of the stereotypes that were imparted to me when I started 20 years ago,\u201d Masmonteil said. \u201cWhen I was their age, I was told that painting was dead. There were no painting classes at the Beaux Arts in Bordeaux. I had to teach myself how to use a brush, by reading, observing, assisting restorers and copying old masters, which I still do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Olivier Masmonteil,\u00a0Baigneuses sur la fontaine river<\/em>, 2017.<\/span>COURTESY OLIVIER MASMONTEIL STUDIO<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

By picking Masmonsteil<\/a> over seemingly more prestigious schools, his collaborators say they have deliberately signed up for the university of life. \u201cWe are learning from the old masters he has us copy but also from him while working on his projects. And I have time to develop my own figurative technique on the side,\u201d said Bloy, who also maintains a studio in the same building as Masmonteil\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only do we learn how to stretch a canvas, but also how to deal with galleries, mount an exhibition, issue an invoice,\u201d Chebassier said. \u201cThere is no one else more pedagogical than he is.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Masmonteil\u2019s studio were ever to adopt a motto, as other art schools have, it would probably be \u201cThere is strength in unity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Added Chebassier<\/a>, \u201cI know art students who complain about being left to their own devices while we, on the other hand, are always helping each other out. This kind of synergy is, I believe, quite unique in France.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThose art students, relying on regional authorities and FRACs [public regional collections of contemporary art], remain rather isolated,\u201d Lara said. \u201cWe, on the contrary, work as a collective, always showing a united front. I grew up in the South of France where art was not considered career material. I am glad I did not listen.\u201d Earlier this year, she sold a painting to real estate and finance tycoon Paul Talbourdet, one of Masmonteil\u2019s most regular buyers.<\/p>\n

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