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Martin Berger

  • Decorative painter
  • Grenoble, France
  • Master Artisan
Martin Berger Decorative painter
Contact
French, Arabic, English, German, Italian
Hours:
Monday to Friday 07:30 - 17:00
Phone:
+33 476172204
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Choreographer of matter

  • • Martin's decors are made with new sustainable processes
  • • His works are physically demanding
  • • The movement-space relationship is fundamental to him

Artist and creative director of his eponymous studio, Martin Berger explores matter through motion and light, offering a unique perspective on decorative arts. His mural creations are imagined as a choreography in which body and matter perform to photograph a gesture in space. With over 20 years of experience, Ateliers Martin Berger is today a reference in the field of decoration, working with luxury houses and architects. Martin relies on an experimental approach to constantly innovate with new processes. He has notably created the concept of paper marquetry, in which materials are worked on flexible supports for unlimited textural effects and plays of light, with no constraints of dimensions. “How do we reflect our energy in a space?”, is Martin's quest.

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Works

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Prism coffee table

Prism uses original paper marquetry know-how developed since 2012 at Ateliers Martin Berger. Texturised paper and multi-coated shaded gold create the decoration.

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Tropism

This immersive polyptych on canvas takes us into the deep green of a primary forest. “Through the colour gradient mixed to the texture, and the way it fades, we understand the importance of leaving nature be.”

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Meditation room

With its soft orange tones, this decor is the result of a true performance by Martin Berger: “Shinnyo is a Japanese Buddhist temple in Paris. The core idea was to reflect the spirit elevation from earth to the infinity of space. The space was quite something to work on with all the spiritual codes attached to it, and painting a fresco is always risky as you cannot go back.”

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Flow

This wall sculpture in intense black captures a movement in space. Martin Berger calls it volume-gesture, referring to his making process: “No more than ten seconds of physical contact are permitted for a Flow to come into shape. Flows are like soft 3D sheets in a stopped motion.”

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Flow

This bespoke wall decor immerses us in the intensity of blue. Martin Berger tells us its story: “One day, an architect friend called me to ask me if I could perform a large piece (450 x 230 cm) for a 3-star chef based in the South of France. Christophe Bacquié is a man of the sea, and his restaurant is a few kilometres away from the Mediterranean. I humbly brought the density, depth, and movement of this beautiful sea into this space.”

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