Pink, Brown, White, 2008 colour noises, aleatory sequences, sound device each colour 134 x 91 x 61 cm

In all transmission, there is a relation between signal and noise, i.e. between "message" and disturbance. Noises are used in electronics for testing or enriching signals, they accompany what one hears, and create texture. Matthieu Clainchard applies a principle of painterly abstraction to the context of noise. His three big modules compose a large paradoxical monochrome. Each of the sound-systems diffuses a different kind of noise: “white" noise (an aleatory signal diffused with the same power on every frequency of the sound spectrum), "pink" noise (equalized version of white noise, adapted to the human ear) and "Brown" noise (after the name of the mathematician who invented this type, implying a higher degree of hazard than the rest of noises). The sculpture appears thus as an invisible chromatic structure, blurring the notions of absoluteness and autonomy, traditionally linked to monochromes in visual arts. The loss of meaning through translation and or the limits of synesthesia are also issues highlighted by Clainchard's structure.

Matthieu Clainchard's (1973) activity has mainly focused in diverse collective projects as Bad Beuys Entertainment, a group of artists developing new forms of social sculpture in the urban cultural context, or Le Commissariat, founded in 2006 with three other artists and preconising a more open and spontaneous curatorial practice. Clainchard's individual work aims the context of artistic production to denounce its dysfunctions and generate “real fictions”: suspending the immediateness of stereotypes by freezing chosen moments or slowing down the perception process and pushing its logic to the extreme. Matthieu Clainchard's "monsters" are inspired by visual and sound aspects of reality and by the practice of falseness (disturbance, inadequacy of the standard, derivation, bugs, shifts and readjustments applied to the everyday life's objects and cultural works). Among his latest projects we can count 2 pièces muettes / Rassemblement pour repeindre at La Planck / Air de Paris gallery and L. Scheer gallery (2008) as well as numerous group exhbitions as Enlarge your practice at La Friche de la Belle de Mai in Marseille, Cosa Nostra at Glassbox, Paris or Arty Report from Suburbia at galerie 54 de Goteborg (2007).

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