Thomas Agrinier’s paintings stage figures in imbalance, lying down or caught in motion, often frozen in moments of dramatic intensity. His dense, theatrical compositions evoke both speed and suspension, like film stills where action and pause coexist.
His work bridges art history and popular culture. From Poussin to the Wachowskis, from Matisse to Disney, from Richter to contemporary mythologies, Thomas fuses classical references with modern visual culture, creating scenes where painting becomes a field of experimentation and collision.
This formal heterogeneity unfolds through shifting techniques within a single canvas: simplified flat areas, blurred passages, or sprayed textures coexist, generating ruptures in space and time. His sculptural, fragmented figures emerge from unstable worlds where the trivial meets the mythological.
For Agrinier, painting is both memory and energy, charged with violence, tenderness, absurdity, and brilliance. It is a visual theatre where each scene reenacts art history while infusing it with contemporary vitality.
2023 The Pursuit of Happiness, Hollis Taggart gallery, NewYork
2021 Players, MCL Metz
2020 La Tentation / Une affaire d’Hommes, Mark Hachem gallery (curator Régis Estace), Paris
2019 Neue Bilder, Kunstverein Langenfeld, Langenfeld (DE)
2018 We are moving, galerie Dukan, Paris
2016 Rien de grave (preview), YIA Art Fair + galerie Estace, Paris
2015 Les Hommes, Art Paris Art Fair, solo show avec la galerie Estace, Paris
2013 Tout va bien, galerie Estace_Liepzig, Leipzig (DE)
I eats my spinach, APACC, Montreuil