Born in Angers, France in 1992, Maxime Le Guyader is a painter now living and working in Brussels, Belgium.
Autodidact, he has always been attracted to art, especially into the drawings and paintings since his childhood.
MLG would define his painting as brut, figurative, primitive and sometimes abstract.​
He uses different mediums from cupboard to canvas, he likes to find his supplies in the streets and to give a second life to any materials. Also attracted in big scale artworks, he can paint large canvases, because of the freedom of movement it gives and the facility to express his self in it, a real transmission of what he has in mind during the creative process.
« Art allows to discuss any subjects and to confront opinions. »
MLG usually paints Masks, he is attracted by the tribal art, the primitive forms of expression and the ancestral rock caves designs, an art form that can be emotionally deep through simple expressions.
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He wants people to react to what they are looking and why not change their point of view on variable subjects. It's a way to protect and respect the old cultures and civilisations.
Art allows to discuss any subjects and to confront opinions.
It's a way where he can express his thoughts behind a canvas.​
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In General, he likes to experiment and he can be interested in many tools and techniques. He always try to make something special, something that nobody have seen before. To MLG it’s important that the watchers can create their own interpretation. He let them free to discuss the paintings as they want.
Most of the time, his imagination controls his movements even if he starts with a special idea the painting follow it own path.
He trust his feelings and let them improvise for him.
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He mostly use acrylics, pastels, sprays and ink. There are easy to find, to use and they dry fast. He will create depending the materials he has and the mood he is in.
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When MLG starts a painting he directly go for it, no preparation. It starts by doing a background and that will automatically build the future painting. For the rest he let it comes as easy as it can go.
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Some paintings will takes few minutes and others will take months, depending the size of the support or the message he wants to deliver.
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He usually works on different paintings at the same time, he likes the balance processing that way.
Everything can change during the making and that's what art is all about, you can paint over and over, you are the only one deciding when it’s done.
« It’s about sharing the way we experience life and the way we create our own reality. »
​MLG works in his studio in Brussels. A place full of objects and weird decoration that submerge him into another world.
Passionate by flea-markets, he loves to collect all kinds of objects, creating a very inspirational environment.
The studio is a part of his creating process, it's the space where he feels free to express hiself surrounded by many objects helping him to link his ideas. A very personal and private environment where few people are allowed.
To MLG art is a tool, a universal language that everybody is free to interpret and learn from, a way to discover new perspectives.
Art plays with our emotions, it stimulates our individual thoughts and gives powerful reactions through our senses.
Art involves imagination, conceptual ideas and beauty.
To MLG it’s about sharing the way we experience life and the way we create our own reality. Finally, it’s all about leaving personal marks on our natural habitat.
« It's a way of thinking and probably a way of life. »
Usually feeling a natural obsession to paint, he always got to feed the need. Ideas and inspirations comes from whatever like movies, books, pictures, street art, tattoos, music, society subjects or others artworks. He feels like he will never be able to paint all those ideas, but he is trying to do the most of it. Some ideas disappears and new ones comes, it's a perpetual circle of inspiration.
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He always felt like creating without knowing where this motivation comes from. An inexplicable force that takes him over, like an invisible power ordering him to paint. To MLG this obsession is more than a passion, it's a way of thinking and probably a way of life.
