Gaspard Maîtrepierre is a self-taught French artist, born in 1990. He lives and works between Paris and Normandy. His work is intended as a pictorial tool, a means of exploring and appropriating the myths that shape humanity.

Like an archivist of the sacred and the imaginary, he collects and assembles the symbols, allegories, and figures that inform our legends, whether ancient or contemporary. His inspiration draws as much from the founding stories of vanished civilizations as from the teeming worlds of science fiction and video games.

Through his works, he creates a fresco where each image is integrated into a larger story, a moving narrative that the viewer is invited to explore and enrich with their own imagination. Each gaze becomes a reading, each interpretation a gateway to a dialogue between past and future, between the rational and the supernatural.

Gaspard Maîtrepierre summons within us an ancestral intuition, this visceral need to unravel the mysteries of the cosmos. He questions us about what hides in the shadows when we fall asleep, about the lights that lit up the sky over Nuremberg in 1561, about the myths that, despite the centuries, still resonate today. His works question our ability to think about the unknown, to grasp the irrational. They offer a new prism: considering ancient legends through a contemporary lens and, conversely, analyzing the present through the wisdom of ancient myths.

"What I do not observe, survives my observation."

At the heart of his approach, one certainty remains: everything that escapes our understanding deserves to be expanded. Gaspard Maîtrepierre does not claim to provide answers; he paints paths. He sketches the multiple frameworks for interpreting mystery, those that humanity will always use in its attempt to approach the unknown.