Wilson Trouvé is an artist who lives and works in Marseille, France. Trouvé presents frames of absence within painting and sculpture. The line becomes a vestige, a trace, that suggests an object no longer there and plays upon the notions of contemporary art such as the new and the unexpected.

Dear Eva (2008) consists of six pieces of black pigment-mixed glue that was first cast when the medium was dissolved in heat and then cooled. Its ooze created a series of elegant, shiny objects. Afterhour (2008) features a white pedestal covered in light blue, in this case melted sugar candies. Trouvé has remained loyal to the grid, exploring its limitations upon two- and three-dimensional surfaces.

The Liquid Architecture Project (2009) appeared in a group show at the Bauhaus Lab Project titled Water Drops, We Run. This piece combined cut frames of Plexiglas, covered with yellow glue pigment that stood alone in the center of the gallery space. Trouvé extended his aesthetic further into slabs of cut glass titled Baroque Broken Lines (2010) that leaned in different heights against the gallery’s white wall.

A more recent piece titled Black Canvas (2011) consists of canvas thread that is draped with black pigment. From afar, this painting looks like six horizontal lines that were painted horizontally across the wall. However as one moves close to this piece, the artist’s interest in exposing the tensions between ephemeral and permanence emerge. Another piece titled Trembling Surface (2011-12) features a series of fissures throughout the square painted surface, questioning traditional ideas of consistency and repetition.

Since 2005 Wilson Trouvé has exhibited extensively throughout France, China and Canada. In 2011 Trouvé’s work appeared in five group shows such as La peinture autrement at the Marc Chagall Museum in Nice, France and Ping Pong with Isabelle Ferreira at Le 3 Maison St. Honoré in Paris, France. The artist’s most recent solo show took place at Galerie AL/MA located in Montpellier, France from May to July 2012. His work is currently on exhibition at the 22nd International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics in Vallauris and most recently appeared at L’art dans les Chapelles in Brittany, France. In September 2012, Trouvé published his first album Monochromie that explores various textures through sound.