Nicolas Maureau explores painting as a site of memory and narrative. His works, developed in series, revisit the great themes of art history (myth, religion, power) in a tension between past and present. Each figure, set in a bare space, creates a field of inner and collective resonance.
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2023 — 2025
En majesté (In Majesty)
En majesté unfolds as a gallery of portraits in which power is revealed through a lens at once contemporary and timeless.
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2020 — 2021
Mélancolie (Melancholy)
Begun during lockdown, this series approaches melancholy as an all-encompassing, literary and poetic feeling.
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2021
Mystiques (Mystics)
With this series, Nicolas Maureau revisits the figure of the saint through its inner, human dimension.
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2019
Tableaux de chasse (Hunting Trophies)
Tableaux de chasse explores our bond with the animal world.
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2016
Scènes de genre (Genre Scenes)
With Scènes de genre, Nicolas Maureau revisits the codes of genre painting, introducing a contemporary reading of identities.
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