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Mathias Kiss is a man of action, an artist who cannot be pigeonholed. An
artist free from all conventions.
At a very young age, Mathias left the classical curriculum to train as a decorative
painter. Thanks to this highly technical and traditional artistic background, where
personal expression had no say in the matter, he worked for fifteen years restoring
historical decors in exceptional locations classified as historic monuments.
It was while closely observing Georges Braque’s monumental painting «The Two
Birds» at the Louvre, created for the ceiling of the Henri II room, that the artistic
spark came and prompted him to leave this coherent environment to strike out on
his own.
Mathias Kiss, the craftsman, could no longer concentrate on this gold-leaf frame,
emblematic of the Age of Enlightenment, and was mesmerized by the genius of the
great master of modern art.
He left his journeymen and apprentices, taking with him the values and skills he
had learned, to become an arti