Drawing

Ball Point Machine

Brouillages/Snow

Laser cut drawings

Misterioso Snoring

Synaesthesia Barrier

We don't need the body

Overview of the 2025 work entitled The Portal, from the Degradient series, measuring 278 cm by 272 cm and produced in situ at the Galerie Les 2 Portes in Besançon, France, in July 2025. In this series of drawings begun in 2021, the artist Patrick Martinez-Mees developed a specific process where a number of sheets of paper of different colors are superimposed in a determined or indeterminate order and glued on top of each other to form a "sandwich" or a "mille-feuille" of paper. The drawing is then obtained by digging into the surface of the paper using a rotary tool equipped with an abrasive burr to reveal the different layers of color buried at different depths. The immersive work “The Portal,” of fairly large dimensions, covers the entirety of one of the gallery’s exhibition walls. Against a black background, an undulating shape resembling a more or less thick multicolored frame seems to undulate along the perimeter of the wall. Even if it gets close to it, the shape never touches the outer limits of the wall. The center of the work, also empty, is black. The colors of this vague frame, ranging from black to white, including dark blue, purple, red, pink, and orange-yellow, as well as the patterns of cracks and faults within, evoke molten lava seeking its way beneath the wall crust. The viewer is invited to step back to discover the wave pattern in its entirety or, on the contrary, to approach to delve into the details of the relief and the infractuosities of the meticulously shredded paper. — The Portal, 2025

From the “Degradient” Series, 2021-present Carved paper 278 cm X 272 cm

Detail of the mural entitled "The Portal" at the Galerie Les Deux Portes in Besançon, France. Layers of colored paper are glued to the wall, one on top of the other, then carved away, revealing the different colors. — The Portal, 2025

Detail, from the “Degradient” Series, 2021-present Carved paper 278 cm X 272 cm

Detail of the 2025 work entitled The Portal, from the Degradient series, measuring 278 cm by 272 cm and produced in situ at the Galerie Les 2 Portes in Besançon, France, in July 2025. In this series of drawings begun in 2021, the artist Patrick Martinez-Mees developed a specific process where a number of sheets of paper of different colors are superimposed in a determined or indeterminate order and glued on top of each other to form a "sandwich" or a "mille-feuille" of paper. The drawing is then obtained by digging into the surface of the paper using a rotary tool equipped with an abrasive burr to reveal the different layers of color buried at different depths. The immersive work “The Portal,” of fairly large dimensions, covers the entirety of one of the gallery’s exhibition walls. Against a black background, an undulating shape resembling a more or less thick multicolored frame seems to undulate along the perimeter of the wall. Even if it gets close to it, the shape never touches the outer limits of the wall. The center of the work, also empty, is black. The colors of this vague frame, ranging from black to white, including dark blue, purple, red, pink, and orange-yellow, as well as the patterns of cracks and faults within, evoke molten lava seeking its way beneath the wall crust. The viewer is invited to step back to discover the wave pattern in its entirety or, on the contrary, to approach to delve into the details of the relief and the infractuosities of the meticulously shredded paper. — The Portal

Detail, from the “Degradient” Series, 2021-present Carved paper 278 cm X 272 cm

Untitled (Flame), 2025

From the “Degradient” series, 2021-present . Carved paper 8.5”x 11”

Untitled (Flame), 2025 (detail)

From the “Degradient” series, 2021-present . Carved paper 8.5”x 11”

On the surface, 2025

From the “Degradient” series, 2021-present . Carved paper 8.5”x 11”

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