Introducing There is no reason for a moustache
by Pola Pulver
This month my actual interview partner cancelled last minute and there was not enough time to find another one. Therefor I will write about There is no reason or a moustache aka Matthieu Séry and Pola Pulver.
A few years ago we decided to spend as much time as possible together and being creative as a team was one of the many ideas how to reach this goal. We agreed to take our selfmade objects and go to markets, hence There is no reason for a moustache was born.
When I asked Matthieu how it got started he said:”It might sound tacky but we just wanted to be ourselves and just do what we do without filters or censorship.” It was and is more a hobby, a luxury that we afford then an actual business idea. Matthieu Séry is a painter, for the markets he did special limited editions of postcards as well as photographs and original drawings, oil on canvas and acrylic on paper. These objects have nothing to do with his work as a painter he says, but:” what I do for the market, I do with the same love and intention.” Also his creations for the market are figurative which is almost non existent in his current work in fact in the past years it has developed more and more towards abstraction. Why he chooses figurative motives for the market, I want to know. “It is easier. I have the feeling, people need the figurative in order to connect with it, to inweave it to their own story.”
Matthieu Séry came 2009 from France for an artist residency to Berlin. The residency was finished after 3 months but he was lucky, as he says himself, met a collector who bought works from him, gave him a place to show, to live and to work. And so he stayed, met Pola and stayed even more.
He does not really miss France, well sometimes a little, he misses to speak his native language and the grumpy people in the streets. Wondering if the city had an influence on his work, Matthieu answers: “Yes and No. When I arrived in Berlin my work was in a transition phase. Probably its development - towards abstraction - would have proceeded anyway. But it is true that Berlin gives you enough room and space, room for introspection.”
And Pola Pulver? She is adding handpainted ceramics to the stand, and is happy when the people come by, look, smile, look at us, smile again and then say: beautiful. This exact scenario has happened more then once. Within this smile lies a lot that may be left unsaid.
There is no reason for a moustache can be visited every first Sunday on the Makers Market. Further information under:
thereisnoreasonforamoustache.blogspot.com
matthieusery.net
polapulver.blogspot.de
This month my actual interview partner cancelled last minute and there was not enough time to find another one. Therefor I will write about There is no reason or a moustache aka Matthieu Séry and Pola Pulver.
A few years ago we decided to spend as much time as possible together and being creative as a team was one of the many ideas how to reach this goal. We agreed to take our selfmade objects and go to markets, hence There is no reason for a moustache was born.
When I asked Matthieu how it got started he said:”It might sound tacky but we just wanted to be ourselves and just do what we do without filters or censorship.” It was and is more a hobby, a luxury that we afford then an actual business idea. Matthieu Séry is a painter, for the markets he did special limited editions of postcards as well as photographs and original drawings, oil on canvas and acrylic on paper. These objects have nothing to do with his work as a painter he says, but:” what I do for the market, I do with the same love and intention.” Also his creations for the market are figurative which is almost non existent in his current work in fact in the past years it has developed more and more towards abstraction. Why he chooses figurative motives for the market, I want to know. “It is easier. I have the feeling, people need the figurative in order to connect with it, to inweave it to their own story.”
Matthieu Séry came 2009 from France for an artist residency to Berlin. The residency was finished after 3 months but he was lucky, as he says himself, met a collector who bought works from him, gave him a place to show, to live and to work. And so he stayed, met Pola and stayed even more.
He does not really miss France, well sometimes a little, he misses to speak his native language and the grumpy people in the streets. Wondering if the city had an influence on his work, Matthieu answers: “Yes and No. When I arrived in Berlin my work was in a transition phase. Probably its development - towards abstraction - would have proceeded anyway. But it is true that Berlin gives you enough room and space, room for introspection.”
And Pola Pulver? She is adding handpainted ceramics to the stand, and is happy when the people come by, look, smile, look at us, smile again and then say: beautiful. This exact scenario has happened more then once. Within this smile lies a lot that may be left unsaid.
There is no reason for a moustache can be visited every first Sunday on the Makers Market. Further information under:
thereisnoreasonforamoustache.blogspot.com
matthieusery.net
polapulver.blogspot.de
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