Laurent Marissal

Also known under the pseudonym Painterman, Laurent Marissal, born in 1970 in Paris, defines himself as a painter. If Laurent Marissal is a painter, he is nevertheless a painter who doesn't paint. It is necessary to distinguish Laurent Marissal the painter who recounts his actions, from Painterman, the painter who does the actions. As soon as he left Paris School of Fine Arts, he was hired as a guard at the Gustave Moreau Museum, where he undertook to "paint in blue", thus designating all the clandestine actions carried out with art by an employee during his work hours, without his employer's knowledge: he turned his back on the public to read, turned over the guard's chairs, moved the objects, put his finger in the fresh painting of the museum under renovation...