MAT Vilaspasa is a French watercolor artist. Born into a family of printers, he was trained in web design in the early days of the Internet.He teaches web accessibility (for blind people) in various colleges of art in Paris and develops websites for the disabled community.
In 2020, he produced a series of watercolors and created the American Watercolor project which intrigues with its subject matter. MV is disconcerting with his graphic choices, as evidenced by his watercolors of burning American cars.
The production of small (16 x 26 cm) sizes and large (96 x 156 cm) sizes, divided into 36 watercolors allows for travel and a nomadic life.
So why obsessively paint the same subject? The answer was revealed to him one night in May during a sacred ceremony in which he took Acacia Magia, an entheogenic substance. Discover below what was revealed to him.
I came to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism to receive, and how distressed I am until it is over! Do you suppose that I came to bring peace to the world? No, not peace, but division. Yeshua, Good News, Luke 12. Exe.
“ … I like clouds… passing clouds… over there … over there … the wonderful clouds! “ Charles Baudelaire
The Invisible Pilgrims
Every artist walks a different path, yet some journeys seem to meet beyond time. These artists have accompanied my own pilgrimage, not as teachers, but as silent companions whose work has illuminated my way.
Gérard Gasiorowski (1930–1986)
French painter Gérard Gasiorowski devoted his entire life to one essential question: What is painting? Rather than seeking a recognizable style, he constantly reinvented his practice, embracing doubt, failure, fiction, and renewal. His work became a lifelong pilgrimage toward what he called the “great river of Painting”, a place where every image, every gesture, and every uncertainty could find their meaning. For Gasiorowski, painting was never a profession; it was a way of existing.
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)
French artist Marcel Duchamp transformed art into a field of inquiry. Every work became an experiment, every idea a new hypothesis. Far beyond the invention of the readymade, he approached creation like an alchemist, patiently assembling symbols, chance, language, and matter into a new reality. His unfinished masterpiece, The Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even), remains one of the twentieth century’s great hermetic works, a machine of desire, a philosophical diagram, and an open mystery. Duchamp reminds us that a work of art is completed by the one who looks at it.
René Daumal (1908–1944)
French writer and poet René Daumal devoted his life to the pursuit of higher consciousness. Influenced by Eastern philosophies, mysticism, and the teachings of Gurdjieff, he saw every creative act as an inner discipline rather than a means of self-expression. In La Guerre sainte, he evokes the only battle that truly matters:
“…then war, the true war of which the true poet would speak, the war without mercy, the war without compromise, would be kindled forever within the innermost depths of our hearts.”
For Daumal, the greatest struggle is never against the world, but against our own sleep.
